Develop a Participatory Model in Nutrition Education to Prevent Childhood Obesity

作     者：Louisa Ming Yan Chung Joanne Wai Yee Chung 

作者机构：Department of Health and Physical Education The Hong Kong Institute of Education Hong Kong China 

出 版 物：《Health》 (健康（英文）)

年 卷 期：2015年第7卷第4期

页      面：466-475页

学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Action Research Nutrition Education Childhood Obesity A Participatory Model 

摘      要：Purpose: To investigate the effect of nutrition education and the engagement of students, parents and teachers in addressing school-specific environmental influences in eating problem. Design: This study adopted the action research process of diagnosing, action planning, taking action, evaluating, and specifying learning. Each of obese and non-obese male and female students was randomly selected based on physical screening based on obesity criteria. Dietary intake records were taken over seven days as the pre-intervention period. These four students, one of each of their parents and the teacher from the primary school, were given 3 sessions of nutrition education. After the nutrition education, dietary intake records were taken over the subsequent 7 days as the post-intervention period. Lunch observation and lunch menu review were included to identify eating problem of primary school children in school level. Findings: Students were found to consume less whole grains and more food items belonged to the “limited and “strongly discouraged as set in government lunch guidelines. Students’ dietary intakes before and after the nutrition education were found improved in their energy intake (p = 0.012), total fat, saturated fat, calcium, sodium, and cholesterol. Conclusion: A participatory model in elementary nutrition education could be effective.