TY - JOUR
T1 - Healthy-canteen displays
T2 - A tactic to encourage community sport canteens to provide healthier food and beverage options
AU - Trakman, Gina L.
AU - Staley, Kiera J.
AU - Forsyth, Adrienne
AU - Devlin, Brooke L.
AU - Skiadopoulos, Anne
AU - Pearce, Karen
AU - Nicholson, Matthew G.
AU - Belski, Regina
N1 - Funding Information:
The evaluation of the State Sport Program?Healthy Choices initiative was initiated and funded by VicHealth. VicHealth had no involvement in study design, or in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data. The authors have no competing interest to declare.The authors would like to thank Ronan McGrann and Albert Osei-Tuti, for-merly Basketball Victoria; the Basketball Victoria Inclusion Team; the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation Healthy Eating Team; VicSport; and research assistants Rachael Barsoum, Grace Lowden, and Bridget Radford.
Funding Information:
Funding: The evaluation of the State Sport Program—Healthy Choices initiative was initiated and funded by VicHealth. VicHealth had no involvement in study design, or in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data. The authors have no competing interest to declare.
Funding Information:
Common factors supporting the implementation of healthy-canteens at sporting venues include organisational capacity building [30], support from health promotion bodies [25], and importantly, the nutrition knowledge and perceptions of venue managers [31]. Despite the importance of venue managers in influencing canteen policies and practices, little is known about effective tactics to impact their perceptions, encourage them to adopt policies designed by health promotion bodies or influence them to engage in self-directed change. Self-directed change is likely to be a low-cost tactic with potential impact across the sport industry. Accordingly, the aim of this project was to evaluate perceptions, knowledge and the impact (e.g., barriers and outcomes) of a healthy-canteen display, based on traffic light labelling (TLL), that was set up at a Basketball Association Managers’ Convention and Trade Show. We hypothesised that the intervention would positively impact managers’ perceptions of healthy-canteens and their ability to introduce healthier items in their local contexts. This project was supported by the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth), the broad aims of which are to create healthier sport environments, increase access to drinking water and make healthier food and beverage choices the easy choice in a range of environments [32].
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PY - 2021/10/1
Y1 - 2021/10/1
N2 - (1) Background: Community sport settings present a range of conflicting health behav-iours, including the tension between being physically active and consuming discretionary foods. Therefore, community sport settings are considered a promising location for health promotion. The aim of this project was to evaluate perceptions, knowledge and the impact (e.g., barriers and out-comes) of a healthy-canteen (cafeteria) display, based on traffic light labeling (TLL), which was set up at an Australian Basketball Association Managers’ Convention and Trade Show. (2) Methods: We set up a healthy ‘canteen display and surveyed Basketball managers on their perceptions of the display before (Survey 1) and after (Survey 2) visiting the display. Three months later they were surveyed (Survey 3) on changes made to their community sport canteens. (3) Results: Eighty-eight, 76 and 22 participants completed Surveys 1, 2 and 3, respectively. Participants believed stocking healthy foods and beverages was important (mean 8.5/10). Food waste, lack of consumer interest and price were identified barriers to stocking healthy foods. After visiting the display, 75% were inspired to make changes and 50% were surprised by the differences between their perceptions of the healthfulness of foods and the TLL ratings. Post-convention, 41% and 70% made or had planned healthy changes to their community sport canteen. (4) Conclusions: A healthy-canteen display is a low-cost, easy-to-implement strategy that may be able to direct self-driven improvement in the healthfulness of foods stocked at community canteens and lead to improved nutritional intakes at these venues.
AB - (1) Background: Community sport settings present a range of conflicting health behav-iours, including the tension between being physically active and consuming discretionary foods. Therefore, community sport settings are considered a promising location for health promotion. The aim of this project was to evaluate perceptions, knowledge and the impact (e.g., barriers and out-comes) of a healthy-canteen (cafeteria) display, based on traffic light labeling (TLL), which was set up at an Australian Basketball Association Managers’ Convention and Trade Show. (2) Methods: We set up a healthy ‘canteen display and surveyed Basketball managers on their perceptions of the display before (Survey 1) and after (Survey 2) visiting the display. Three months later they were surveyed (Survey 3) on changes made to their community sport canteens. (3) Results: Eighty-eight, 76 and 22 participants completed Surveys 1, 2 and 3, respectively. Participants believed stocking healthy foods and beverages was important (mean 8.5/10). Food waste, lack of consumer interest and price were identified barriers to stocking healthy foods. After visiting the display, 75% were inspired to make changes and 50% were surprised by the differences between their perceptions of the healthfulness of foods and the TLL ratings. Post-convention, 41% and 70% made or had planned healthy changes to their community sport canteen. (4) Conclusions: A healthy-canteen display is a low-cost, easy-to-implement strategy that may be able to direct self-driven improvement in the healthfulness of foods stocked at community canteens and lead to improved nutritional intakes at these venues.
KW - Cafeteria
KW - Canteen
KW - Front of package label
KW - Nudge
KW - Sport
KW - Sugar sweetened beverages
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85115849242&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/ijerph181910194
DO - 10.3390/ijerph181910194
M3 - Article
C2 - 34639496
AN - SCOPUS:85115849242
SN - 1660-4601
VL - 18
JO - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
JF - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
IS - 19
M1 - 10194
ER -