Nutrition Education for Student Community Volunteers: A Comparative Study of two Different Communication Methods

Vijayapushpam, T; Rao, G.M. Subba; Antony, Grace; Rao, D. Raghunatha

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“…Nutrition education was then implemented as an umbrella programme for these projects, to improve children's and caregivers' nutrition knowledge and to empower these communities to make healthy food choices in future to promote public health (Anderson et al, 2004;Brug, 2004;Vijayapushpam et al, 2008). This was done by developing, implementing and evaluating a nutrition education programme (NEP).…”

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Nutrition education tools for primary school children in the Vaal region

Oldewage‐Theron

Napier

2011

Development Southern Africa

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South Africa's high prevalence of malnutrition severely affects children's well-being and ability to learn. According to the World Bank, malnutrition is found in households from all spheres of life, since caregivers are not well informed about healthy food choices and feeding practices. A long-term solution to the problem is to encourage people to grow food and improve their incomes, but a quicker solution is to provide health and nutrition education and services to encourage healthy food choices. This paper describes the development of nutrition education tools (NETs) as part of a nutrition education programme for primary school children (Grades 1 to 3) from low-income households in South Africa. The study used the Food and Agriculture Organization's framework for nutrition education to develop simple, cost-effective, appropriate and applicable NETs.primary school children, nutrition education, nutrition education material, nutrition education programme, nutrition education tools,

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Nutrition education tools for primary school children in the Vaal region

Oldewage‐Theron

Napier

2011

Development Southern Africa

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“…A validated knowledge assessment questionnaire (KAQ) used in an earlier study (16) was used in the current study to collect baseline data on socio-economic characteristics and nutrition-and health-related knowledge levels of the 687 subjects. The KAQ consisted of thirty-one closedended multiple-choice questions pertaining to nutrition (n 18), adolescent phase (n 2), infectious diseases and health (n 9) and lifestyle diseases (n 2).…”

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Nutrition and health education intervention for student volunteers: topic-wise assessment of impact using a non-parametric test

Vijayapushpam

Antony²,

Rao

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Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: To assess the impact of a classroom-based nutrition and health education intervention among student community volunteers in improving their knowledge on individual topics. Design: Prospective follow-up study. Topic-wise knowledge change among student volunteers on individual topics (twenty-one questions related to nutrition and health, eight questions related to infectious diseases and two questions related to obesity and hypertension) pertaining to nutrition and health was evaluated at baseline and after intervention, using the McNemar test. Setting: Six different colleges affiliated to

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“…Although NIN's studies in the 1990s have established the effectiveness of folk media for nutrition communication in some contexts, their potential has not been exploited fully in other geographic locations27. In a study by the NIN scientists in the previous decade, a video recorded version of a local folk art form was successfully used to enhance the nutrition knowledge of university students53. The study concluded that the intervention based on folk dance had significant positive increment in nutrition knowledge due to the impactful presentation and attention holding nature of the art form.…”

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Nutrition communication - Rhetoric & reality

Gavaravarapu

2019

Indian J Med Res

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Given the context that undernutrition in India co-exists with the problems of overweight/obesity and associated non-communicable diseases as well as micronutrient deficiencies, integrating nutritional concerns in developmental policies and governance is gaining significance. There are many schemes implemented to tackle malnutrition in India, but creating synergy and linking these schemes with each other to achieve a common goal are lacking. Nutrition communication can be an important component to create the synergy required to change malnourished India to malnutrition-free India. Although nutrition education/communication is recognized as a necessary component in various national nutrition programmes, there is not much evidence of distinct evaluation of these components. Only a minor proportion of community nutrition research has been devoted to nutrition education and communication. Although there are scattered efforts in experimenting with newer communication approaches and media for promoting nutrition, there is a dearth of published literature. In this review an attempt was made to critically examine the nutrition education and communication research and practice with special focus on India. This review provides a historical perspective of evolution of nutrition education and communication with an overview of communication approaches, media, methods and technologies used in various research studies and programmes as well as the lessons learnt.

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Nutrition Education for Student Community Volunteers: A Comparative Study of two Different Communication Methods

Cited by 10 publications

References 12 publications

Nutrition education tools for primary school children in the Vaal region

Nutrition education tools for primary school children in the Vaal region

Nutrition and health education intervention for student volunteers: topic-wise assessment of impact using a non-parametric test

Nutrition communication - Rhetoric & reality

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