Abstract
In this study the musical-component of a new school-based nutrition preventive approach for children of the Federal Center for Health Education, named “Kinderliedertour Apfelklops & Co” is presented and data on acceptability of the program and behaviour change are reported. 704 primary school children were administered the acceptability questionnaire, 227 children took part in the behavioural observation. Thereby to evaluate the behaviour change a pretest-posttest, control group design was utilized with 137 children in the experimental group and 90 children in the control group. Results showed high levels of acceptability: 97.8% of the chil-dren reported they liked the program much or very much. Behaviour changes during school break for the experimental group were not observed: when asked to choose a drink among healthy as well as unhealthy ones, for children in the experimental group, there was no dif-ference over time in the choice of a healthy drink. However, children in the control group showed a significant decrease in the choice of a healthy drink at post-test relative to pre-test.
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