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Volume 8

Pediatrics & Therapeutics

ISSN: 2161-0665

Pediatrics and Pediatric Gastroenterology 2018

March 21-22, 2018

Annual World Congress on

March 21-22, 2018 | New York, USA

PEDIATRICS

PEDIATRIC NUTRITION,

GASTROENTEROLOGY & CHILD DEVELOPMENT

The effect of nutrition education on food choices of sixth grade children in a primary school

Maha Abdelrahman Mowafy

and

Shaimaa B Abdelaziz

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 as regards healthy eating habits and conduct health educational intervention. A pretest

(questionnaire) was taken before the program to assess the KAP among school children as regards 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. The majority of students had a normal BMI 64%, overweight were 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. Nutrition education should be introduced to school children as it highly affects their food choices and

preferences.

Pediatr Ther 2018, Volume: 8

DOI: 10.4172/2161-0665-C1-049