“Food is environmentally and culturally specific!”: a preliminary qualitative study on U.S. immigrant parents’ perceptions of school lunch

• Emmanuel Obeng-Gyasi ^[1] ; Godfred Antwi ^[2] ; Cecilia Obeng ^[3]
  1. [1] North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

     North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

     Township of Morehead, Estados Unidos

     
  2. [2] State University of New York

     State University of New York

     City of Albany, Estados Unidos

     
  3. [3] Department of Applied Health Science, Indiana University School of Public Health

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• Localización: EJIHPE: European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, ISSN 2174-8144, ISSN-e 2254-9625, Vol. 10, Nº. 1, 2020, págs. 240-249
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.3390/ejihpe10010019
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  • Children spend most of their day hours in school, so the dietary choices they make during school days are important for their childhood development and later life. This research examined food choices among immigrant families with school-age children in Indiana, USA. Open-ended questions were answered by 52 immigrant parents in 2017. Parents who answered the questions had children in classes ranging from kindergarten to grade 12. NVivo 11 was used for the initial analysis of the dataset, and several themes were identified. After the initial analysis, the data were categorized into major themes to condense the themes. Thirty-eight (73%) of the respondents indicated that their children ate school lunch, 14 (27%) indicated that they prepared lunch for their children to eat at school, and 39 (75%), mostly from non-industrialized countries, indicated that their children ate their home-country staple foods for dinner and on non-school days. Parents indicated that schools are serving the needs of immigrant children by serving varieties of foods during lunchtime.

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