A Qualitative Investigation of Teachers' Information, Motivation, and Behavioral Skills for Increasing Fruits and Vegetables Consumption in Preschoolers

Speaker: Suzie Goodell, PhD, RD, Assistant Professor & Nutrition NUTS Program Director, Department of Food, Bioprocessing, and Nutrition Sciences, North Carolina State University

Learning Objectives

Compare and contrast methods, benefits, and limitations of qualitative and quantitative research.

Describe the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model, a behavior change model.

Articulate the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model to how teachers increase fruits and vegetable consumption in preschoolers.

Explain how nutrition educators can apply components of the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model to develop educational materials for increasing fruits and vegetable consumption in preschoolers, using their preschool teachers as a vehicle for change.