Interactive Cause and Effect Comic-book Storytelling for Improving Nutrition Outcomes in Children

Amresh, Ashish; Sinha, Madhumita; Birr, Rebecca; Salla, Rahul

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“…A study of Latino American parents and their children showed that an Interactive Cause and Effect Comic-book Storytelling (ICECS) intervention program improved knowledge regarding healthy diet, nutrition, and exercise, and promoted parent-child communication. This study complemented the learning process and improved knowledge sharing by using a mobile application (Amresh et al, 2015). Study in American Indian and Alaska Native addressed the benefit of storytelling in delivering the health message to the children.…”

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“…Story telling using picture books is a low-cost method of increasing the engagement by the caregiver and the children. These studies showed that community empowerment and nutrition education were effective when combined with appropriate nutrition topics and parenting messages within attractive tools in the effort to reduce the risk of malnutrition (Donna Winham, 2013;Amresh et al, 2015).…”

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Development of Innovative Picture Storybooks to Empower Parents and Teachers for Early Childhood Education in Nutrition and Social-Behavior in Jakarta

Agustina¹,

Sari²,

Sholihah³

et al. 2018

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2018). Development of innovative picture storybooks to empower parents and teachers for early childhood education in nutrition and socialbehavior in Jakarta. ASEAN Journal of Community Engagement, 2(2). AbstractIndonesia is experiencing a double burden of malnutrition, especially in young children. Many studies show that community empowerment and nutrition education are effective at reducing the risk of malnutrition when combined with attractive tools and appropriate nutrition and parenting messages. Therefore, we developed innovative picture storybooks as a fun learning tool to equip teachers and parents with a way to improve their understanding and awareness of the quality of early childhood dietary habits and social behavior. The study consisted of three stages, including formative research, book development, and evaluation. Our formative research triangulated information on preferences and key messages on food, nutrition, parenting, and child characteristics through focus group discussions (FGDs), in-depth interviews (IDIs), and observations of school food environments. The FGDs were held for the children (n=6), teachers (n=6), and mothers (n=6). The IDIs explored opinions from a story teller, a nutritionist, a communication expert, a child psychologist, and an illustrator team. Finally, books were developed by the researcher and evaluated by the expert team (n=10) and teachers (n=8). The study took place in early childhood education centers and kindergartens in Central Jakarta's urban areas. Children preferred picture storybooks that represented a unique condition of magical power and provided characters from the fantasy genre. Following the IDI's recommendations and observations, three picture storybook series were developed: healthy snacking, integrated with messages to stimulate a child's disciplined behavior; eating vegetables, especially green ones, with the motivation to increase truthfulness; and a healthy eating portion guide with a variety of foods combined with messages to motivate grateful attitudes. The book content integrated key messages on nutrition, parenting, and social behavior with unique characters and colorful pictures. The expert team recommended the appropriate development of the picture storybooks and emphasized paying attention to clear genres, text structure, content, themes and ideas, language, vocabulary, illustrations and graphic design, and messages delivered. The picture storybooks present key messages on nutrition, parenting, and child behavior using an attractive, colorful and unique appearance. These books can be used to teach early childhood nutrition and parenting intervention by integrating them with other approaches such as story-telling, eating meals together, and other supporting activities.

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Development of Innovative Picture Storybooks to Empower Parents and Teachers for Early Childhood Education in Nutrition and Social-Behavior in Jakarta

Agustina¹,

Sari²,

Sholihah³

et al. 2018

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“…Despite the importance of oral storytelling at home, digital storytelling tools have predominantly been viewed as a way to facilitate children's literacy outcomes and have been often designed to be used in a formal education context aligning with existing curricula. Children's use of digital storytelling authoring has been found to improve children's learning outcomes such as communication (Al-Mousawi and Alsumait, 2012), emotion regulation and rehearsal of emotions (Wallbaum et al, 2017) as well as understanding of specific concepts, such as for example healthy eating (Amresh et al, 2015). Interaction designers have grappled with balancing children's creative open-ended story construction with a highly scaffolded story-making process designed to foster specific outcomes.…”

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Designing for oral storytelling practices at home: A parental perspective

Vasalou

Kalantari

Kucirkova

et al. 2020

International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction

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“…In [3] a detailed review of the potential of video games to tackle obesity is presented. In [4,5] the importance of story, immersion and narrative to promote behavior change targeting obesity is presented. Broadly games and visualizations have been used to improve clinical outcomes in [6, 7, and 8].…”

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Design, implementation and evaluation of a game-based intervention targeting Latino children for improving obesity outcomes

Amresh

Salla

Sinha

et al. 2016

2016 IEEE International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH)

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This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of a hybrid clinic plus home based intervention targeting Latino children to improve obesity outcomes. The intervention applies motivational game based learning and behavior change theories during design. Latino American children are the main target group for this study as they have significantly high obesity rates due to socioeconomic conditions and lack of awareness. There have been several interventions that have targeted game based strategies in the clinic to promote health outcomes and some have even targeted obesity problems, however to our knowledge this is the first effort that adds an inhome component to the clinical intervention. We discuss in detail the challenges faced while designing and implementing this hybrid clinical trial. Finally, we present the evaluation results from a randomized clinical trial that recruited 101 children.

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Interactive Cause and Effect Comic-book Storytelling for Improving Nutrition Outcomes in Children

Cited by 13 publications

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Development of Innovative Picture Storybooks to Empower Parents and Teachers for Early Childhood Education in Nutrition and Social-Behavior in Jakarta

Development of Innovative Picture Storybooks to Empower Parents and Teachers for Early Childhood Education in Nutrition and Social-Behavior in Jakarta

Designing for oral storytelling practices at home: A parental perspective

Design, implementation and evaluation of a game-based intervention targeting Latino children for improving obesity outcomes

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