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Reasons Why Vegetable Cultivation Increases or does not Increase Vegetable Intake Among Adult Vegetable Growers Living in a City in Gunma Prefecture, Japan: A Qualitative Study
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: Received: 25 March 2019 / Approved: 26 March 2019 / Online: 26 March 2019 (10:49:20 CET)
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Machida, D.; Yoshida, T. Reasons Why Vegetable Cultivation Increases or does not Increase Vegetable Intake Among Adult Vegetable Growers Living in a City in Gunma Prefecture, Japan: A Qualitative Study. Preprints2019, 2019030241. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201903.0241.v1
Machida, D.; Yoshida, T. Reasons Why Vegetable Cultivation Increases or does not Increase Vegetable Intake Among Adult Vegetable Growers Living in a City in Gunma Prefecture, Japan: A Qualitative Study. Preprints 2019, 2019030241. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201903.0241.v1
Machida, D.; Yoshida, T. Reasons Why Vegetable Cultivation Increases or does not Increase Vegetable Intake Among Adult Vegetable Growers Living in a City in Gunma Prefecture, Japan: A Qualitative Study. Preprints2019, 2019030241. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201903.0241.v1
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Machida, D., & Yoshida, T. (2019). Reasons Why Vegetable Cultivation Increases or does not Increase Vegetable Intake Among Adult Vegetable Growers Living in a City in Gunma Prefecture, Japan: A Qualitative Study. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201903.0241.v1
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Machida, D. and Tohru Yoshida. 2019 "Reasons Why Vegetable Cultivation Increases or does not Increase Vegetable Intake Among Adult Vegetable Growers Living in a City in Gunma Prefecture, Japan: A Qualitative Study" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201903.0241.v1
Abstract
Objective: We examined the reasons why vegetable cultivation increases or does not increase vegetable intake among adult Japanese vegetable growers.Materials and Methods: A qualitative cross-sectional study using a self-completed anonymous questionnaire was sent to participants (aged 20–74 years residing in three areas of a city in Gunma Prefecture, Japan) in September 2016. The questionnaire addressed perceptions of whether vegetable cultivation would increase vegetable intake, with four possible answers: strongly disagree, disagree, agree, and strongly agree. Respondents were then asked reasons for their view, with free-text responses. We also asked about participants’ characteristics and whether they found that growing vegetables had changed their vegetable intake and access to vegetables. We categorized the free-text answers by content.Results: We analyzed 442 answers, and reasons for vegetable growing increasing vegetable intake were grouped into five categories: “availability,” “purpose of cultivation,” “quality,” “increased positive emotions toward vegetables,” and “unconsciousness”; for it not increasing intake were also grouped into five categories: “limited quantities,” “negative emotions toward vegetables,” “cultivation for a purpose other than eating vegetables,” “access to vegetables from other sources,” and “limits associated with self-cultivation.”Conclusion: We found five main reasons why vegetable growing may and may not increase vegetable intake.
Biology and Life Sciences, Agricultural Science and Agronomy
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