Assessment of the impact of organic school meals to improve the school food environment and children’s awareness of healthy eating habits

in English ........................................................................................................................ 12 Dansk resumé ................................................................................................................................ 15 I Definition of terms ...................................................................................................................... 18 II List of tables .............................................................................................................................. 20 III List of figures ........................................................................................................................... 21 IV List of abbreviations ................................................................................................................. 22 1 Overview of the PhD thesis.................................................................................................... 23 1.1 Context of the doctoral work .......................................................................................... 23 1.2 Structure of the thesis ..................................................................................................... 24 2 Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 25 2.1 Healthy school meals ...................................................................................................... 25 2.2 Organic food ................................................................................................................... 27 2.3 Organic school food procurement .................................................................................. 28 2.4 Aims, outline of the study and research questions ......................................................... 30 3 Theoretical and conceptual framework .................................................................................. 32 3.1 Brief summary ................................................................................................................ 32 3.2 Why use the Theory of Planned Behaviour? .................................................................. 32 3.3 What is the Theory of Planned Behaviour? .................................................................... 34 3.4 Advantages and disadvantages of the Theory of Planned Behaviour ............................ 35 3.5 The Theory of Planned Behaviour for the PhD work ..................................................... 35 3.5.1 Attitude towards the behaviour ............................................................................... 35 3.5.2 Subjective norm ....................................................................................................... 36 3.5.3 Perceived behavioural control ................................................................................. 36 3.5.4 Intention and behaviour ........................................................................................... 36 3.6 Constructing questionnaires based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour ...................... 36 3.6.1 Adapted theory of planned behaviour ..................................................................... 36 3.6.2 Attitudinal measures ................................................................................................ 37 3.6.3 Behavioural measures ............................................................................................. 40