Environmental Intervention in a University Canteen with Focus on Decision Guidance—Effects on Sale and Daily Consumption of Vegetables and Fruit
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Design
2.2. Frame and Intervention
2.3. Assessment Methods of Substudy A
2.4. Assessment Methods of Substudy B
2.5. Statistical Analysis
2.6. Ethical Consideration
3. Results
3.1. Substudy A
3.2. Substudy B
4. Discussion
4.1. Measures Implemented and Comparative Studies
4.2. Strength and Limitations
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Concept According to Jürkenbeck et al. [15] | Measures of the Intervention in the Present Study | |
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Decision Restriction | Limited selection through product bans | |
Limited selection through product reformulation and governmental product standards | ||
Decision Guidance | Guided selection through negative incentives | |
Guided selection through positive incentives |
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Guided selection through nudging |
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Decision Support | Simplified choice |
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Informed choice |
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Governmental unregulated choice |
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Intervention Group | Control Group | p † | |||
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n | % or Mean ± SD | n | % or Mean ± SD | ||
Status: | 0.047 | ||||
| 27 19 | 58.7% 41.3% | 39 10 | 79.6% 20.4% | |
Gender: | 0.012 | ||||
| 11 35 | 23.9% 76.1% | 2 47 | 4.1% 95.9% | |
Age, years | 46 | 30.8 ± 12.8 | 49 | 26.5 ± 9.4 | 0.453 |
BMI, kg/m2 | 46 | 23.4 ± 3.0 | 48 | 21.2 ± 2.6 | 0.000 |
Personal presence at the university, times/week ‡ | 46 | 3.8 ± 0.9 | 49 | 3.0 ± 1.3 | 0.002 |
Canteen visits for lunch, times/week ‡ | 46 | 2.3 ± 1.2 | 49 | 0.2 ± 0.2 | 0.000 |
Use of the health-promoting menu, times/week ‡ | 35 | 0.7 ± 0.9 | 38 | 0.1 ± 0.2 | 0.000 |
Use of the health-promoting menu, per canteen visit, % ‡ | 35 | 26.6 ± 27.9 | 36 | 19.3 ± 35.5 | 0.031 |
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Schneider, M.; Nössler, C.; Lührmann, P.M. Environmental Intervention in a University Canteen with Focus on Decision Guidance—Effects on Sale and Daily Consumption of Vegetables and Fruit. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 10443. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910443
Schneider M, Nössler C, Lührmann PM. Environmental Intervention in a University Canteen with Focus on Decision Guidance—Effects on Sale and Daily Consumption of Vegetables and Fruit. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18(19):10443. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910443
Chicago/Turabian StyleSchneider, Melanie, Carolin Nössler, and Petra Maria Lührmann. 2021. "Environmental Intervention in a University Canteen with Focus on Decision Guidance—Effects on Sale and Daily Consumption of Vegetables and Fruit" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 19: 10443. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910443