Nutrition education linking research, theory, and practice

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Main Author: Contento, Isobel R.
Format: Book
Published: Burlington, Massachusetts Jones & Bartlett Learning 2016
Edition:3rd ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Nutrition education : important, exciting, and necessary for today's complex world
  • Determinants of food choice and dietary change : implications for nutrition education
  • An overview of nutrition education : facilitating motivation, ability, and support for behavior change
  • Increasing awareness and enhancing motivation for behavior change
  • Facilitating the ability to change behavior and take action
  • Promoting environmental supports for behavior change
  • Step 1. Deciding behavior change goals of the intervention based on assessing issues and behaviors of audience
  • Step 2. Exploring determinants of intervention behavior change goals
  • Step 3. Selecting theory and clarifying intervention philosophy
  • Step 4. Indicating objectives : translating behavioral theory into educational objectives
  • Step 5. Generating educational plans : a focus on enhancing motivation for behavior change and taking action
  • Step 6. Nail down the evaluation plan using the design procedure to promote environmental supports for behavior change
  • Delivering nutrition education effectively in group settings
  • Media supports and other channels for nutrition education
  • Working with diverse age, cultural, and population groups
  • Nutrition educators as change agents in the environment.