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Table 1 Personal and professional FN constructs defined

From: Addressing schoolteacher food and nutrition-related health and wellbeing: a scoping review of the food and nutrition constructs used across current research

Personal FN constructs

Professional FN constructs

• Measure of dietary intake [34, 35] [Includes: Food Frequency Questionnaires, Dietary screeners that capture an aspect of diet quality (i.e., fats only or fruit and vegetable intake)]

• Food habits [36]

• Eating behaviours at school [37]

• Food and cooking skills and confidence [38]

• Food literacy [39]

• Nutrition knowledge [40] (Specific to teacher personal needs)

• Nutrition self-efficacy [41]

• Food agency [13]

• Food attitudes [42]

• Behavioral intentions connected to nutrition and healthy eating [42]

• Classroom food practices [43] (May include use of food as a reward, role modeling of food and nutrition practices)

• Nutrition teaching self-efficacy [44]

• Health promoter [3]

• Gatekeeper [5]

• Policy implementation [45]

• Nutrition knowledge [46] (Specific to student health and nutrition needs or student education provision).