Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12966-022-01246-8
Keywords
Fruit; Vegetables; Intervention; Implementation; Barrier; Facilitator; Determinant; Consolidated framework for implementation research
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Funding
- Research Council of Norway [297894/H10]
- Joint Programming Initiative A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life(JPI HDHL)
- France: Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
- Germany: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
- Ireland: Health Research Board (HRB)
- Italy: Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR)
- The Netherlands: The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw)
- New Zealand: The University of Auckland, School of Population Health
- Norway: The Research Council of Norway (RCN)
- Poland: The National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR)
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This article systematically reviews the determinants of implementing fruit and vegetable interventions in kindergarten and school settings. By using the CFIR framework, the study identifies intervention characteristics, outer and inner settings, characteristics of individuals, and various processes as key factors influencing implementation. The research highlights the dual role of parents and emphasizes the importance of positive child perceptions and behavior change for successful implementation.
Background: Although children's intake of fruit and vegetables has seen a recent rise, almost half of adolescents do not eat even one piece of fruit or vegetables per day. One way to address this problem is through interventions that provide fruit and vegetables directly to children in kindergartens and schools. For such interventions to meet their intended goals, what is important to consider in addition to impact is implementation. Our objective is to systematically review qualitative results reporting on the determinants (barriers and facilitators) to implementation of interventions that entail direct provision of fruit and vegetables in kindergarten and school settings and conduct a framework analysis of those results using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR). Methods: A systematic search was designed and run in November 2019 for: MEDLINE (Ovid), Embase (Ovid), PsychINFO (Ovid), ERIC (Ovid), Cochrane Library Reviews and Cochrane Library Trials. A keyword search of the journal Implementation Science was completed. Screening of titles and abstracts (n =5427) and full texts (n= 227), led to 14 included articles. Coding and analysis were done using the framework method and CFIR. Results: The following CFIR constructs were found relevant: 1) intervention characteristics domain: 'design quality and packaging', 'adaptability' 'cost'; 2) outer setting: 'cosmopolitanism', 'external policy and incentives' 'patients' needs and resources'; 3) inner setting: 'implementation climate', 'readiness for implementation' and 'structural characteristics'; 4) characteristics of individuals: 'individual stage of change', 'knowledge and beliefs about the intervention' 5) process: 'engaging', 'executing' and 'reflecting and evaluating'. The review stresses the dual role of parents as both supporting the implementation and targets of the intervention, which could have implications for the design and implementation of future fruit and vegetables interventions. Positive child perceptions of the value of the intervention and perceived behavior change due to the intervention were reported as relevant facilitators to implementation across several studies, and should be taken into consideration in future design efforts. Conclusions: CFIR offers a systematic way to identify and organize barriers and facilitators to implementation of interventions in the kindergarten and school setting. Revisions are encouraged to allow adequate space for perceptions of various implementation actors and the target group.
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