Evaluation of Public Health Nutrition Education Program for High School Girls
The Korean Journal of Nutrition
;
: 873-879, 2005.
Article
in Korean
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-648452
ABSTRACT
Impact and process evaluations were performed in order to verify the effectiveness of a public health nutrition program developed for child-bearing aged women in Korea. Participants included 58 high school girls who were divided into two groups. Each group received four 50 - 60 minute nutrition education lectures regarding healthy eating, osteoporosis, constipation and nutrition labeling in every two weeks. Each session took 50 - 60 minutes. Regarding nutrition knowledge, there was a significant increase of degree of perception (p = 0.0004), but no change in degree of accuracy after implementation (p = 0.9522). Nutrition education was also effective in attitude change, showing more participants were ready to change their eating behaviors in terms of meal regularity (p = 0.0455) and less processed food intake (p = 0.0143). After implementing nutrition education, effective behavioral changes were observed in milk consumption (p = 0.0037) and meal regularity (p = 0.0882) as well as daily activity such as stair use (p = 0.0701). However, nutrition education had no effect on body mass index and perceived health status. In process evaluation conducted by a 9 item questionnaire, grand mean score was 4.17 +/- 0.72 out of 5. Proportion of items with scores higher than 4 ranged 68-91%. These results suggest that the nutrition education program used in this study was effective and useful. For a wider use of this program, more research was recommend for a strategy development of program diffuse.
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Index:
WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Osteoporosis
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Body Mass Index
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Public Health
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Surveys and Questionnaires
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Constipation
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Lecture
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Milk
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Eating
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Education
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Feeding Behavior
Type of study:
Evaluation studies
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Female
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Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
Korean
Journal:
The Korean Journal of Nutrition
Year:
2005
Type:
Article
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