@misc{10481/87131,
year = {2013},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/87131},
abstract = {One hundred and fifty children between 4 and 6 years old were studied to examine the
effect of providing them with a choice of vegetables on their vegetable consumption.
Offering vegetable choice was expected to increase the children’s vegetable intake due
to increased personal autonomy. The option for the children to choose the vegetables to
ingest was varied across three different conditions. Within the discrete choice condition
(DCC), children could choose the target vegetable at the beginning of the meal; within
the continued discrete choice plus variety condition (CDCP), children were exposed to a
variety of vegetables (zucchini and green beans), so that they could choose the target
vegetable whenever they made a bite during the whole meal. Within the no-choice
condition (NCC), children were alternately exposed to only one kind of vegetable, so that
no choice possibility was provided. The choice conditions (CDCP and DCC) were
associated with higher vegetable intake, in comparison to the no-choice control
condition (NCC). No significant differences were found between the DCC and the CDCP
regarding participants’ total vegetable intake. These results demonstrate the enhancing
effect of providing choice to increase vegetable intake in young children. A higher degree
of personal control and consequent level of intrinsic motivation is hypothesized to
underlie the effect of choice availability.},
organization = {Junta de Andalucía, grant HUM-02763},
organization = {PSI2011-23702; PSI2012-31641 (MINECO, Spain)},
publisher = {Elsevier},
keywords = {Children},
keywords = {Choice},
keywords = {School},
keywords = {Intervention},
keywords = {Vegetables},
keywords = {Consumption},
title = {Providing choice increases children's vegetable intake},
doi = {10.1016/j.foodqual.2013.05.006},
author = {Rohlfs Domínguez, Paloma and Gámiz Ruiz, Fernando and Gil, Marta and Moreno, Hayarelis and Márquez Zamora, Raúl and Gallo Torre, Milagros and Brugada Sauras, Isabel de},
}