Effects of a Nutrition Education Program on the Dietary Behavior and Nutrition Knowledge of Second-Grade and Third-Grade Students

Powers, Alicia; Struempler, Barb; Guarino, Alcides Wagner Serpa; Parmer, Sondra

doi:10.1111/j.1746-1561.2005.tb06657.x

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“…The present review summarises sixteen papers describing fourteen interventions published between years 1990 and 2010, conducted mainly in the USA (30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38)(39)(40)(41) , one in South America (42) and three in Europe (43)(44)(45) . Children's age spanned from 5 to 12 years, and with the exception of one study that recruited girl scouts only (35) , all studies targeted both girls and boys.…”

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Improving children's dairy food and calcium intake: can intervention work? A systematic review of the literature

Hendrie

Brindal

Baird

et al. 2012

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: Strategies are needed to address the shortfall in children's dairy food and Ca intakes. The present review identified interventions targeting an increase in children's dairy food or Ca intakes, and determined characteristics associated with successful intervention. Design: A systematic literature search identified fourteen intervention studies, published in English, between 1990 and 2010. Studies were evaluated for study population, setting and mode of delivery, dietary targets and outcome measures, measures of intervention intensity, intervention description, the use of behaviour change techniques and intervention effectiveness. Setting: Interventions targeting an increase in dairy food or Ca intake. Subjects: Children aged 5-12 years. Results: Ten of the fourteen studies were considered to be effective. Studies focusing on encouraging intake of dairy foods or Ca alone were all effective, compared with 55 % of studies promoting dairy within the context of a healthy diet. Effective interventions tended to be higher in intensity, provide dairy foods and were delivered across a variety of settings to a range of primary targets. The number of behaviour change techniques used did not differentiate effective and ineffective interventions, but the use of taste exposure and prompting practice appeared to be important for effective intervention. Conclusions: Interventions that target an increase in children's dairy food or Ca intake could potentially increase children's dairy food intake by about one serving daily. Research conducted outside the USA is needed. The review has identified some promising strategies likely to be part of effective interventions for improving dairy and Ca intakes in countries where children's intake is insufficient.

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“…None of the lower intensity studies were individualised, instead utilising either group education (30,40) or environmental strategies (e.g. provision of milk as part of school lunch programme (44) ).…”

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Improving children's dairy food and calcium intake: can intervention work? A systematic review of the literature

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Brindal

Baird

et al. 2012

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“…유아의 식습관은 가정에서부터 형성되며, 부모로부터 가장 많은 영 향을 받는다 (An and Im, 1994;Gillespie, 1981;Nelms, 1997;Powers et al, 2005). 그러므로 유아의 식습관 개선을 위해 서는 부모의 지속적인 관심과 참여가 함께 이루어져야만 효 과를 볼 수 있다 (Moon, 1991).…”

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Horticultural Activities Using Colorful Food for the Improvement of Emotional Intelligence and the Reduction of Unbalanced Vegetable Diet of Young Children

Son¹,

Song²,

Son

2015

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This study focuses on horticultural activities using colorful food to reduce diets unbalanced in vegetables and to increase emotional intelligence. Horticultural activities using colorful food vegetables were based on ʻHealth in Daily Lifeʼ in the ʻ7th Kindergarten Curriculumʼ; to improve the dietary habits of the young children, the program was also linked with a parentsʼ education program. The research was conducted with a total of 70 children from classes for four-year-olds in three child-care centers located in Seoul. The horticultural activities based upon nutrition education included activities using colorful food vegetables and nutrition education. For the nutrition education group, only nutrition education was provided, while neither horticultural activities nor nutrition education were provided to the control group. The study was conducted from September to December 2011. A total of twelve sessions were conducted once a week for 60 minutes each. According to the result, after the horticultural activities with colorful food vegetable were conducted, both the nutrition education group and horticultural activity & nutrition education group showed improvements in ʻNutrition Knowledgeʼ compared to the control group. Regarding ʻUnbalanced Diet Behaviorsʼ, the horticultural activities & nutrition education group showed meaningful decreases compared to the control group. Moreover for preference of fruits and vegetables, the horticultural activities & nutrition education group revealed meaningful improvements. In conclusion, colorful food vegetable horticultural activity could be an effective approach to resolve the imbalance of health caused by unbalanced diets as children who participated in the colorful food vegetable horticultural activities continued to respond spontaneously to the colors of vegetables and fruits and showed joy and kept voluntarily eating them.

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“…Increase of nutritional knowledge in the control group could be due to routine educational programs at schools. Other studies have shown that nutrition education interventions could increase nutritional knowledge (13,21), which is a necessary but not sufficient factor for improving food behaviors (22). Some studies have reported that children's nutritional behaviors are not related to their nutritional knowledge.…”

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“…Schools are recognized as proper places for nutritional and behavioral interventions because children spend most of their time there (10). Results of nutrition education program in other countries have shown that it could improve nutrition knowledge and dietary habits among the children (11)(12)(13). Here, we decided to assess the effect of a school-based nutrition education program on the nutritional status of grade four primary school students in Shiraz, Iran.…”

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Effect of a School-based Nutrition Education Program on the Nutritional Status of Primary School Children

Keshani¹,

Mousavi²,

Mirzaei³

et al. 2016

Nutr Food Sci Res

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A B S T R A C T Background and Objectives:Regarding the high prevalence of unhealthy food habits among Iranian children, we aimed to assess the effect of a school-based nutrition education program on nutritional status of primary school students in Shiraz. Materials and Methods:This randomized educational controlled trial was carried out on 221 primary school age children selected by cluster sampling in the elementary schools of Shiraz-Iran. The intervention consisted of 6 nutrition education sessions carried out through one year for children, using active learning methods. Mothers' education was carried out in person in both lecture and question-answer sessions also via sending text messages and pamphlets. Weight, height and waist circumference (WC) of children were measured before and after the intervention. Also a 168-item food frequency questionnaire was completed. Two separate nutrition knowledge questionnaires were filled up by children and their mothers. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 16.Results: 171 children (83 in the case and 88 in the control group), aged 9.5-10.5 years, completed the study. Anthropometric and nutritional knowledge of the participants in both the intervention and control groups was significantly increased. Weight, height, WC and nutritional knowledge increased significantly more in the intervention group compared to the controls. Consumption of fruits and vegetables decreased in the intervention group while plain sugar and fast foods intake increased among the controls. There were no significant differences between the changes in the intake of any of the food groups in the two groups. Conclusions:In conclusion, the designed nutrition education program could increase students' nutritional knowledge, and lead to a non-significant change towards reducing the consumption of unhealthy foods such as fast foods, sweets and salty snacks.

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Effects of a Nutrition Education Program on the Dietary Behavior and Nutrition Knowledge of Second-Grade and Third-Grade Students

Cited by 102 publications

References 16 publications

Improving children's dairy food and calcium intake: can intervention work? A systematic review of the literature

Improving children's dairy food and calcium intake: can intervention work? A systematic review of the literature

Horticultural Activities Using Colorful Food for the Improvement of Emotional Intelligence and the Reduction of Unbalanced Vegetable Diet of Young Children

Effect of a School-based Nutrition Education Program on the Nutritional Status of Primary School Children

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