Step 4: Nutrition Education Program Objectives For All Components

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Step 4 Case Study Translating behavioral theory into educational and support objectives

In Step 4, you translate behavioral theory into the program objectives that you need to guide the design of educational experiences
and environmental-policy support activities. These objectives are directed at potential mediators of change.
At the end of the Step 4 worksheets, you will have the following product:

Step 4: Several sets of objectives for your program that cut across all components.
Use the worksheets as a guide to help you write educational and support objectives rooted in your theory model from Step 3.
Electronic versions of these worksheets are available at http://nutrition.jbpub.com/education/2e/. If you are unable to access the
worksheet electronically, you can write onto this blank worksheet or create a text document that uses the same flow of information.

NOTE: This part of the case study focuses on only one of the program’s goal behaviors: increasing intake of fruits and vegetables. If
you create a program with multiple goal behaviors, you will need to complete this worksheet for each of the behaviors.

Step 4: Nutrition education program objectives for all components


Determine the nutrition education program objectives that will cut across all program components to achieve
the program behavioral goals for each of the three categories below.

Motivational Action
objectives objectives
Increase awareness in youth about the importance of fruits and Facilitate the ability to act by providing opportunities to gain
vegetables in the diet. relevant food and nutrition knowledge and practice food and
nutrition experiences.
Enhance the students’ motivation to eat fruits and vegetables
through a school curriculum and school-wide activities. Enhance their self-regulation skills related to fruit and vegetable
intake.

Environmental-policy
support objectives
Educate decision makers and work with them to increase opportunities for youth to eat more fruits and vegetables at school through
policy initiatives at the school.

Educate parents to increase opportunities for youth to eat more fruits and vegetables through a parent education component.

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