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OBESITY AND WEIGHT MANAGEMENT

VACCINES AND IMMUNOLOGY

International Conference on

Asian Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Volume 8

ISSN:

2249-622X

THE EFFECT OF NUTRITION EDUCATION ON FOOD CHOICES OF

SIXTH GRADE CHILDREN IN A PRIMARY SCHOOL

Maha Abdelrahman Mowafy

Cairo University, Egypt

he impact of behavior on health, with a special emphasis on children and adolescents, is a central focus for current health policy

and for the prevention agenda. This is an interventional study with pre/post assessment. The objectives of which are to test

KAP of children in sixth grade primary school about healthy eating habits and conduct health educational intervention. A pretest

(questionnaire) was taken before the program to assess the KAP among school children about healthy eating habits. According

to KAP analysis outcome the health education material was tailored. All cases included in this study were subjected to Health

education intervention. Posttest was taken after two weeks to determine the impact of the program. A total number of 100 student

of children aged 11-12 years in the sixth-grade primary were included. The results showed that 41% of studied group were boys

in comparison to 59% of girls. Most students had a normal BMI 64%, overweight was 29% (23% boys and 33% girls), and only 14%

were obese (12% boys and 16% girls). There was a great improvement in Knowledge in relation to the number of meals per day

from 6.7 to 50. For attitude the highest percentage of improvement was related to milk and yogurt snacks from 11.5 to 85.6 after

intervention and for breakfast as a practice. Nutritional education should be introduced to school children as it highly affects their

food choices and preferences.

Asian J Biomed Pharmaceut Sci 2018, Volume 8 | DOI: 10.4066/2249-622X-C1-003