Table 1 Teacher personal and professional food and nutrition defined

Personal FN

Factors related to an individual teacher, i.e., diet quality, food skills, food attitudes and perceptions.

Personal FN Constructs

A group of questions, or scale that measure an aspect of teachers’ personal FN such as diet quality, food and cooking skills, food attitudes and behaviours

Professional FN

Factors specifically related to a teachers’ professional role, i.e., classroom FN practices, role modelling food behaviours, health promotion and FN educator.

Professional FN Constructs

A group of questions or scale that measure a teachers’ professional FN attitudes, knowledge, or practices such as classroom FN practices, nutrition teaching self-efficacy or capacity to role model healthy FN practices (i.e., healthy eating).