Journal of Nutrition and Health

The Korean Nutrition Society (한국영양학회)
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Evaluation of Public Health Nutrition Education Program for High School Girls

여고생 대상 가임여성 보건 영양교육 프로그램 평가

  • Oh Se-Young (Department of Food and Nutrition, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • You Hye-Eun (Department of Food and Nutrition, Kyung Hee University)
  • 오세영 (경희대학교 생활과학대학 식품영양학과) ;
  • 유혜은 (경희대학교 생활과학대학 식품영양학과)
  • Published : 2005.12.01
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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 \pm$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. (Korean J Nutrition 38(10): 873$\sim$879,2005)

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