Barriers to and facilitators for adherence to nutritional intervention: Consumption of fruits and vegetables.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the barriers and facilitators for the adherence of participants to a nutritional intervention.

Methods: A randomized controlled trial was carried out with participants from the Health Academy Program in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil. The intervention (7 mo) was based on the Transtheoretical Model and on Paulo Freire's pedagogy and offered 12 education activities with the purpose of promoting the consumption of fruits and vegetables.

Promoting fruit and vegetable consumption: Methodological protocol of a randomized controlled community trial.

This study aimed to develop community educational activities in Brazilian primary health care settings. A randomized controlled community trial was conducted to encourage fruit and vegetable consumption (FV-RCT) in a representative sample of consumers aged 20 years or older in a Brazilian city. The fruit and vegetable consumption was classified according to the transtheoretical model's stages of change, reflecting different degrees of readiness for change.

[Food environment: validation of a method for measurement and characterization in the territory with the Health Academy Program].

The study aimed to verify the validity of secondary data in the investigation of the food environment and to analyze the characteristics of the community environment and consumers in territories covered by a health promotion service. This was an ecological study in 18 units of the Health Academy Program in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, selected by simple cluster sampling. Validation of the establishments marketing fruits and vegetables, obtained from public databases, was done via telephone contact, Google Street View, and on-site audit.