Frontiers in nutrition
Not always protective: health literacy, school connectedness and adolescent healthy eating behaviors-the moderating role of physical activity participation
By Chen J, Liu M, Han X and 1 others.
Abstract
Purpose
To explore the effects of Health literacy on adolescent healthy eating behaviors, a moderated-mediation model was constructed in this study to examine the mediating effect of School connectedness and the moderating effect of Physical activity participation.
Methods
Stratified cluster sampling was adopted. Questionnaires were administered to 3, 009 middle-school students recruited from 12 middle schools across 6 provinces nationwide, using the Health literacy scale, Eating behaviors scale, School connectedness scale, and Physical activity participation scale. Data analyses were performed using SPSS 26.0 and PROCESS Model 15.