Intervention components | Description | Assessment |
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Adherence to school meals | - Placement of posters on cafeteria walls and displays on tables with messages and/or images that encourage students to make healthier food choices; - The implementation of the use of tablecloths in the cafeteria with color images of fresh foods, accommodation of the fruits served in the school feeding in a prominent position, improving their visibility in an attractive way; - The equipment of the cafeterias, with the installation of a thermal distribution counter to guarantee the autonomy of food choice by the students, through a self-service system; - Placement of a banner with the daily dishes menu at the entrance of the cafeteria; application of footprints on the floor that playfully direct the adolescents to the cafeteria; - Changes in the dishes that make up the menu of the only school which will receive the two interventions (Intervention group 2). | A question about the frequency of school meal consumption, applied in 3 moments (baseline, half of the school year and end of the school year). |
Acceptance of dishes offered | Application of acceptability tests applied after the 4th week of implementation of each new menu (5 in total) in 2019 and a questionnaire with questions about each food group applied in 3 moments (baseline, half of the school year and end of the school year). |