A Socio-Cognitive Review of Healthy Eating Programs in Australian Indigenous Communities

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Harris, Jessica
Carins, Julia
Parkinson, Joy
Bodle, Kerry
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2022
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PURPOSE: This paper aims to understand the challenges to healthy eating for Indigenous Australians using a Social Cognitive Theory lens. Understanding the environmental, cognitive, and behavioural barriers to healthy eating for Indigenous populations in Australia will help identify current gaps and highlight future actions needed in this area to close the gap for Indigenous Australians. STUDY DESIGN: Narrative review of interventions of healthy eating programs in Australian Indigenous communities sourced using a systematic search protocol to understand the environmental, cognitive, and behavioural barriers to healthy eating among Indigenous Australians and to identify gaps and future actions needed to address this from 2010-2020. RESULTS: The search produced 486 records, after duplicates were removed and the inclusion and exclusion process were utilised, seven interventions were retained in nine studies. The seven interventions had multiple study designs, from randomised control trials to case studies. CONCLUSIONS: Further work needs to explore the long-term feasibility of providing fruit and vegetable discounts and the impact of remoteness for the delivery of healthy food. Dietary interventions need to be clearly described, and fidelity and process of the design and implementation process to help with replication of work.

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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

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19

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15

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© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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Education policy, sociology and philosophy

Nutrition and dietetics

Public health

aboriginal

indigenous Australians

nutrition

nutrition education

social cognitive theory

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Harris, J; Carins, J; Parkinson, J; Bodle, K, A Socio-Cognitive Review of Healthy Eating Programs in Australian Indigenous Communities, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022, 19 (15), pp. 9314-9314

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