Data for Nutrients 2022

Healthy eating behaviours are increasingly the focus of environmentally-responsible nutrition interventions. We grouped rural children according to their attitudes, social influences, and self-efficacy in terms of latent variables, using school type as a concomitant variable to predict latent class membership. The study included rural children registered in 3 different schools involving thereby i) all students from 2nd till 5th grade in a single classroom who are taught by only one teacher (n=12), ii) students of one 3rd grade in a conventional school (n=29), iii) students of two 3rd grade courses in a Millennium School (n=38). We estimate that children learning in a single setting with peers of different ages and students who are in a class with peers of similar age have a high probability of being less disciplined and more oriented to follow parental norms, and therefore, parents should be included in nutrition education interventions. It is imperative that future interventions promote traditional eating culture to potentiate positive attitudes towards eating indenigeuns foods and current healthy eating practices