This study aimed to assess the outcome of community-based nutritional counseling interventions on eating habits of ruraldwelling children.Methods: A group-randomized trial design was used in this study. A total of 108 rural-dwelling children from a community in the Enugu North agricultural zone, Enugu State, who participated in the study. The children were randomly assigned to 2 groups: the treatment group (n = 54) and the no-treatment control group (n = 54). The child eating behavior questionnaire was used for data collection. Parents of the participating children within each study group completed the child eating behavior questionnaire at 3 time points. The data collected were analyzed using an independent sample t test at a probability level of .05. Result:The outcome of the study showed that the children's eating habits in the treatment group improved positively following the community-based nutritional counseling intervention. The positive gain from exposure to the community-based nutritional counseling intervention program was sustained during follow-up for children in the treatment group compared with the no-treatment group. Conclusion:The community-based nutrition counseling intervention carried out among children in rural communities had a positive adjustment in children's eating habits. The intervention requires the constant collaboration of professional childhood educators, caregivers, home economists, school staff, healthcare specialists, families, and the children themselves. Furthermore, there is a need for future long-term evaluations of the effects of community-based nutritional counseling interventions on children's nutrition and eating habits.Abbreviation: CEBQ = child eating behavior questionnaire.

Enhancing secondary students' Creativity is one of the strategic ways of improving their entrepreneurial capacity and performance. This is very critical in Home Economics programs at various levels as it emphasizes developing the individuals' occupational skills towards becoming an agent of self-employment and an employer of labor. In order to improve the Creativity of Home Economics Students under secondary education, this study, therefore, determined teachers' role in enhancing Creativity among Home Economics students at secondary schools in Nsukka Education Zone. The study was carried out based on the survey research design. All the eighty-six Home Economics teachers in the zone were used for the study. A structured questionnaire made up of 32 items rated using a modified 4 -point response scale was used to generate data for the study. Three experts validated the instrument. Data collected were analyzed using means, standard deviation, and t-test. The finding revealed that all the listed strategies except three were required in promoting creativity skills in youths. It was recommended that Home Economics teachers should be innovative, creative and pragmatic, by adopting delivery methods that will arouse Creativity in students. Adequate funds, facilities, and equipment should be provided by the government to teach and learn Home economics effectively. Collaborations between the learning institutions and industry should be strengthened to gain relevant practical experience in skill acquisition.

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to survey the sustainable health counselling strategies for reducing the impact of malnutrition among rural children in Nigeria. METHOD: The population of the study comprised the entire 209 counsellors. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data collected. RESULTS: The result showed found that providing information about adequate food intake for sustainable health, awareness creation, and counselling, organizing conference on healthy nutrition, providing health awareness for sustainable growth; educating preschoolers’ caregivers on fibre, knowledge of the best choice, knowledge of the sources of vitamin B12; assessing nutritional status of children; information on underweight to avoid obesity; and improving scope feeding behaviour through counselling are strategies that could reduce impacts of malnutrition among rural children in Nigeria. No significant was observed between male and female respondents with regards to sustainable health counselling strategies for reducing the impact of malnutrition among rural children. CONCLUSION/SUGGESTION: Since eating practice of the rural children is poor and counselling strategies have been suggested, there is an urgent need for implementation of those strategies. Since evidence-based literature indicated that rural children in developing countries are at high risk of malnutrition and our findings showed strategies to reduce the proportion of children suffering from malnutrition, it implies that a Nutrition Rehabilitation Programme should be introduced to educate them on best nutritional practices.

Background/Objective: Previous research efforts have shown the need for improvement of knowledge and perception of HIV/AIDS among English Language speaking children in rural areas. Hence, the study at hand was designed to investigate the effect of using educational digital storytelling intervention to satisfy this need of English Language children in rural areas in Nigeria. Method: The study adopted a randomized control design involving a pretest, post-test, and follow-up measures. Eight-four children (n = 84) took part in the study. The HIV Knowledge Questionnaire (HIV-KQ-18) and the Perceived Risk of HIV Scale (PRHS ) were used for data collection. Data were analyzed using t test statistics. Result: The educational digital storytelling intervention in appreciably improved knowledge and perception of English language children in rural areas who participated in the intervention concerning HIV/AIDS compared with their peers in the no-intervention control group. The improvement in knowledge and perception gained was also maintained throughout the follow-up evaluation period. Conclusion: The present study showed that the use of educational digital storytelling could improve knowledge and perception of HIV/AIDS among English Language speaking children in rural areas. Educational digital storytelling intervention effectively improved knowledge and perception of HIV/AIDS among children in rural areas. In return, we recommend that rural sociologists, counselors, language and communication experts, child educators, and other professionals involved in public health especially, as it concerns children be skilled in the use and application of educational digital storytelling intervention procedures to facilitate the move towards adopting the method in their professional practices.