Influence of an educational strategy to promote the use of regional food

Abstract

Objective: to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of family members of preschool children about regional food,through a survey before and after an educational intervention. Methods: this is a pre-experimental one-group pretest–posttest study, with 62 family members of preschool children. One month before and after the conduction of an educationalactivity using the flipchart “regional food promoting food security”, one applied the survey. Results: it was found that after theeducational strategy, there was an increase in the classification “appropriate” in each survey area about regional food, and thevariation of knowledge (17.7%-77.4%), attitude (21%-72.6%) and practice (14.5%-64.5%), consequently, an improvementof 59.7% in knowledge, 51.6% in attitude and 50% in practice. Conclusion: the use of educational technology had a positiveinfluence on the knowledge, attitudes and practice of family members, contributing thus to the health promotion of childrenand their family members.

Validação de tecnologia para autocuidado do familiar cuidador de pacientes oncológicos paliativos domiciliares

“…The participation of several professionals in the content validation process is a favorable aspect, since it allows merging innumerable specific sets of knowledge related to palliative care addressed through a technology, which is scarce in the scientific environment. Similarly, as in other research, it was possible to finalize the material in order to present it as multiprofessional and coherent instrument (18) .…”

Four levels of evaluation nurse training program on regional food

“…Concerning the educational technology used in this study, the nurses emphasized that the series album "Regional foods promoting food security" is an innovative resource that favored the greater involvement and interaction of the users participating in the educational activity. This is due to the fact that the material in question was built in light of the liberating pedagogy of Paulo Freire, which encourages the use of problematizing and dialogic teaching techniques between educator and student (13) .…”

“…Most of the meetings lasted an average of 50 minutes, with the exception of educational technology workshops, which lasted four hours, and the educational interventions, which lasted an average of 25 minutes. The educational technology used in the program was the validated serial album "Regional foods promoting food security", which consists of seven illustrations, which should be exposed to the target audience, and six worksheets, which guide the professional and address the themes: food and nutritional security; regional food; food hygiene; and regional recipes for cashew, banana, pumpkin and seriguela [cirguela] (13) .…”

“…The current KAP survey on regional foods was prepared and validated by two experts in the area and a pilot test performed with 15 family members in previous research. It consisted of 10 questions divided into the three axes (knowledge, attitude and practice), which can be classified as appropriate or inappropriate after response from the participants (13) .…”

Blog for schoolchildren about people with disabilities: evaluation of learning

“…The role of the nurse in the development of educational interventions is evidenced in the position of an educator. This practice is not only a sharing of information but a transforming educational practice that allows individuals to reflect and decide attitudes (20) . It is important to develop educational actions favoring nursing care for the health of schoolchildren.…”