Youth Understanding of Healthy Eating and Obesity: A Focus Group Study

Table 2

Example of coding scheme for theme¹ of food and healthy eating.

(1) Food and healthy eating
(1.1) Healthy versus unhealthy foods
(1.1.1) Easily identifies healthy food; (1.1.2) Difficulty in identifying healthy food; (1.1.3) Easily identifies unhealthy food; (1.1.4) Difficulty in identifying unhealthy food; (1.1.5) Enjoyment of healthy food; (1.1.6) Dislike of healthy food; (1.1.7) Enjoyment of healthy food; (1.1.8) Dislike of healthy food
(1.2) Consequences of eating healthy food
(1.2.1) Weight; (1.2.2) Risk of chronic disease; (1.2.3) Intellectual/school performance; (1.2.4) Other health benefits and risks (i.e., bone health)

1Food and healthy eating was the way that the theme was written in the codebook.