EFFECT OF NUTRITIONAL EDUCATION ON NUTRITIONAL KNOWLEDGE OF ELEMENTARY STUDENTS

Setyawati, Vilda Ana Veria and Rimawati, Eti and Yuantari, Maria Goretti Catur (2015) EFFECT OF NUTRITIONAL EDUCATION ON NUTRITIONAL KNOWLEDGE OF ELEMENTARY STUDENTS. PROCEEDINGS International Seminar and Workshop on Public Health Action "Building Healthy Community".

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Abstract

The unhealthy habits such as, consumed snacks, low physical activity increased widespread phenomenon occurred among school students. Data from Household Health Survey by the Ministry of Health in 2004 found 8% overweight students at aged 5-17 years. This study aims to improve the nutritional knowledge of elementary school studentss about street food. This research used quasi-experimental with pre-post test design. The treatment consist of training, discussion, and simulations. Analysis of the data used SPSS with paired non-parametric (Wilcoxon). The results achieved are subject to a number of 68 child sex distribution of boys (63.24%) and girls (36.76%). The distribution of students knowledge level before assistance to less category amounted to 73.53%, enough 26.47% have a sufficient level of knowledge. The distribution of students knowledge level after mentoring for good of 53.24%, enough 35.29%, and 1.47% have less knowledge level. The mean knowledge increased from 5.2 to 8.5. There are differences in the level of knowledge before and after nutrition counseling (p = 0.0001). Keywords: elementary students, nutritional education, nutritional knowledge.

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