To develop a validated nutrition evaluation and nutrition information resource for the pre-school setting
- Project start date: 1 March 2008
- Project status: Completed
- Discipline: Food marketing
- Principal researcher/s: Ms. Corina Glennon Slattery, HSE – Dublin Mid-Leinster
- Collaborator/s: Single supplier
Research objective
Early nutrition intervention is a priority for safefood. This project aimed to meet this priority through establishing an incentive scheme for full day care pre-schools in an effort to help improve their nutrition practices.
Outputs
Research report
- Title: Unpublished report
- Summary: A simple randomised study was carried out with direct observational data recorded both pre- and post-intervention, using a specifically developed and validated Pre-school Health Promotion Activity Scored Evaluation Form. Post-intervention, self-assessment data were also collected using the same evaluation tool. Ensuring parental involvement was seen as key in this process, as was the inclusion of a representative sample of pre-schools from all socio-economic backgrounds.
Other outputs
Johnston Molloy C, Kearney J, Hayes N, Glennon Slattery C & Corish C (2014) Healthy incentive scheme in the Irish full-day-care pre-school setting. Proc Nutr Soc 73, 147-158.
Johnston Molloy C, Kearney J, Hayes N, Glennon Slattery C & Corish C (2013) Preschool manager training: a cost-effective tool to promote nutrition and health-related practice improvements in the Irish full-day-care pre-school setting. Public Health Nutrition. 1-11
Johnston Molloy C, Hayes N, Kearney J, Glennon Slattery C & Corish C (2012) Researching young children's perception of food in Irish pre-schools: An ethical dilemma. Research Ethics 8, 155-164.
Johnston Molloy C, Corish C, Kearney J, Hayes N & Glennon Slattery C (2011a) Developing a nutrition assessment tool for Irish pre-schools. Nutrition & Food Science 41, 44-53.
Johnston Molloy C, Corish C, Kearney J, Hayes N & Glennon Slattery C (2011b) Fluid provision in the Irish full day care pre-school setting. J Hum Nutr Diet 24, 290-291.
Johnston Molloy C, Corish C, Kearney J, Hayes N & Glennon Slattery C (2011c) An observational study in Irish full day care pre-schools to determine nutrition practice. Proc Nutr Soc 70, E109.
Johnston Molloy C, Corish C, Kearney J, Hayes N & Glennon Slattery C (2010) Letters to the Editor. J Hum Nutr Diet 23, 426-427.
Johnston Molloy C, Murtagh M, Corish CA, Kearney J & Glennon C (2007) An exploration of food provision, and commitment to the introduction of a nutrition incentive scheme, in the pre-school setting. Proc Nutr Soc 66, 109A.
Molloy CJ, De Siún A, Kennelly S & Slattery CG (2007) A study to determine the view of Irish pre-schools, on the use of a scored evaluation form as a motivational tool, to improve food provision in this setting. J Hum Nutr Diet 20, 382.
