Table 2.
Barriers and facilitators to meeting vegetable group recommendations reported by American-Indian children (responses ranked by vote) from a rural Northern Plains reservation, March–December 2010
| Barriers | Facilitators | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Responses | Voting | Sum score | Responses | Voting | Sum score |
| Don't like them | 5, 3, 5, 5, 3, 1, 4 | 26 | Put vegetables out for lunch | 4, 4, 3, 5 | 16 |
| Mom don't buy them | 2, 5, 1, 3, 1, 4, 1 | 17 | Make a garden and plant vegetables | 5, 4, 4 | 13 |
| Gross the taste | 3, 4, 2, 1, 2 | 12 | Try the ones you don't like | 3, 4, 5 | 12 |
| Don't like the way they taste | 1, 3, 1, 5, 3 | 13 | Tell your friends to eat healthy | 1, 5 | 6 |
| No time | 4, 4, 4, 4 | 16 | Eat more each day | 2, 3 | 5 |
| They smell funny | 2, 5, 2 | 9 | 12 baby carrots | 5 | 5 |
| Look funny | 4, 5 | 9 | Eat the same or different vegetables | 3 | 3 |
| Cost too much | 3, 2 | 5 | Eat vegetables in salads | 3 | 3 |
| Grandma don't cook them | 3, 2 | 5 | Put them on each plate | 2 | 2 |
| School don't have the kind I like | 1, 2 | 3 | 8 ounces of vegetable juice | 2 | 2 |
| Store is too far to get them | 5 | 5 | Eat 1 ear of corn each day | 2 | 2 |
| Eat from the starch group | 2 | 2 | |||
| Tell your friends to eat them | 1 | 1 | |||
| Tell you friends to try them | 1 | 1 | |||
| Tell your friends to eat them everyday | 1 | 1 | |||
| Try to mix vegetables together to try different ones | 1 | 1 | |||