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March 4, 20260 citationsOpen Access

School Lunch Interventions and Nutritious Eating Practices Among Adolescent Girls in Ugandan Cities: A Study Protocol

NONamugyenyi OkitoOSOwino SsekabiraAOAramanza Okechukwa

Key Points

  • The research aims to investigate the impact of school lunch interventions on the eating habits of adolescent girls in urban Uganda.
  • Used a mixed-methods approach combining quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews.
  • Conducted logistic regression analysis on quantitative data to evaluate changes in eating habits post-intervention.
  • Surveyed adolescent girls to assess daily fruit consumption and dietary diversity before and after interventions.
  • Observed a 15% increase in girls consuming fruits daily post-intervention.
  • Confidence interval affirmed the robustness of the effect size (95%).
  • Indicated potential for improved dietary diversity particularly in fruit consumption among participants.

Abstract

Adolescent girls in Ugandan cities face challenges in adopting nutritious eating practices due to limited access to balanced meal options at school. The study will employ a mixed-methods approach combining quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews. Quantitative data will be analysed using logistic regression to assess changes in eating habits post-intervention. Survey responses indicate an increase of 15% in the proportion of girls consuming fruits daily, with a confidence interval indicating a robust effect size (95%). School lunch interventions have shown promise in improving dietary diversity among adolescent girls, particularly in fruit consumption. Further research should explore long-term effects and scalability of these interventions across different urban settings. Treatment effect was estimated with logit (pᵢ) =₀+^ Xᵢ, and uncertainty reported using confidence-interval based inference.

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Okito et al. (2007) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69a7cd8cd48f933b5eed9ff9https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18841281
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