The Food Doctors: A pilot study to connect urban children and medical students using nutrition education

2018 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 441-450
Author(s):  
Bryan Johnston ◽  
Ahmad El-Arabi ◽  
Krista Tuomela ◽  
David Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Nutrition Education ◽  
Elementary School Students ◽  
Nutrition Knowledge ◽  
School Students ◽  
Pilot Programme ◽  
Hands On ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Partner Schools

Background: Children in the USA face increasing nutrition-related health risks, including obesity rates of 16.9% – a figure that has more than tripled over the past four decades. Nutrition education is beneficial to improve children’s health through obesity prevention and the promotion of healthy habits, and the elementary school years are a key time to implement health education interventions. Objective: To develop a medical student created and operated nutrition education intervention for urban underserved elementary school students. Design: The Food Doctors (TFD) programme is a hands-on, interactive, in-class nutrition education pilot initiative for elementary school students and adheres to the established tenets of effective in-class nutrition education whenever possible: (1) interactive hands-on curriculum, (2) use of culturally relevant topics and (3) the inclusion of effective evaluation techniques. Setting: Urban elementary school classrooms in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Method: A literature review and feedback from partner schools’ needs informed curriculum development. Institutional review board approval was sought and study materials prepared. The pilot programme was carried out at partner schools during class time. Results: A total of 83 students participated in the pilot study: 46 third-grade students and 37 fourth graders. Evaluation focused on assessing student baseline knowledge and exploring post-programme nutrition knowledge gains. Conclusion: TFD pilot programme demonstrated gaps in baseline nutrition knowledge among elementary school students and showed improved post-programme ability to correctly answer basic nutrition knowledge questions.

scholarly journals PENGARUH PEMBERIAN MAKANAN JAJANAN, PENDIDIKAN GIZI, DAN SUPLEMENTASI BESI TERHADAP STATUS GIZI, PENGETAHUAN GIZI, DAN STATUS ANEMIA PADA SISWA SEKOLAH DASAR

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adhitya Aji Candra ◽  
Budi Setiawan ◽  
Rizal Damanik
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Nutrition Education ◽  
Elementary School Students ◽  
Iron Supplementation ◽  
Intervention Study ◽  
Nutrition Knowledge ◽  
School Students ◽  
Post Intervention

The objective of this research were to analyze the effect of snack feeding, nutrition education, and iron supplementation to nutritional status, nutrition knowledge, and anemia status in elementary school students. The study was conducted in SDN Palasari 02 Kecamatan Cijeruk, Kabupaten Bogor, Jawa Barat. The design of this study was pre-post intervention study. The number of subjects were 81 students. The result showed that snacking did not give significant improvement on nutritional status (p&gt;0.05). Nutrition education was significant in improving nutrition knowledge (p&lt;0.05), while iron supplementation intake gave a significant improvement on anemia status (p&lt;0.05).<br />Keywords:

scholarly journals Efektivitas Edukasi Komik Dan Leaflet Terhadap Peningkatan Pengetahuan Orangtua Siswa Sekolah Dasar Mengenai Phbs Untuk Pencegahan Penularan Virus COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-85
Author(s):  
Fabiola Shania Alicia Rustiarini ◽  
Ibnu Malkan Bakhrul Ilmi ◽  
Sintha Fransiske Simanungkalit ◽  
Nanang Nasrullah
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Nutrition Education ◽  
Elementary School Students ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Test Group ◽  
Healthy Living ◽  
School Students ◽  
Major Health Problem ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Cluster Random Sampling

COVID-19 is currently a major health problem worldwide. Indonesia is one of the countries affected and is in the 21st position with the most positive cases of Covid in the world. Children who are exposed to the Covid-19 virus usually only cause mild symptoms or even cause no symptoms. This makes children a source of spreading the virus without realizing it. Therefore, education on how to prevent the transmission of Covid-19 (Clean and Healthy Living Behavior) is important to prevent children from being exposed to the Covid-19 virus and becoming a source of infection without realizing it. To determine the effect of comic education and leaflets on increasing the knowledge of parents of elementary school students about PHBS for preventing the transmission of the Covid-19 virus. This study used a quasy experimental design with a desaign pre-post test group design involving 68 parents of grade V students who were selected by cluster random sampling. Knowledge data collection is carried out online. There were differences in respondents' knowledge of the effect of comics education media use (p = 0,) and leaflets (p = 0,). There is an effect of nutrition education through comics and leaflets on knowledge about Clean and Healthy Living Behaviors in parents of elementary school students as an effort to prevent the transmission of the Covid-19 virus. ABSTRAK COVID-19 saat ini menjadi masalah kesehatan paling utama di seluruh dunia. Indonesia menjadi salah satu negara yang terdampak dan menduduki posisi ke-21 dengan kasus positif Covid terbanyak di dunia. Anak yang terpapar virus Covid-19 biasanya hanya menimbulkan gejala ringan atau bahkan tidak menimbulkan gejala. Hal ini membuat anak menjadi sumber penyebaran virus tanpa disadari. Oleh sebab itu, edukasi mengenai cara pencegahan penularan Covid-19 (Perilaku Hidup Bersih dan Sehat) penting dilakukan untuk mencegah anak terpapar virus Covid-19 dan menjadi sumber penularan tanpa disadari. Mengetahui efektivitas edukasi komik dan leaflet terhadap peningkatan pengetahuan orangtua siswa sekolah dasar mengenai PHBS untuk pencegahan penularan virus Covid-19. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain quasy experimental dengan rancangan pre-post test group desaign dengan melibatkan 68 orangtua siswa kelas V yang dipilih dengan cluster random sampling. Pengambilan data pengetahuan dilakukan secara daring. Ada perbedaan pengetahuan responden terhadap efektivitas penggunaan media edukasi komik (p=0,) dan leaflet (p=0,). Media komik dan leaflet dapat meningkatkan pengetahuan mengenai Perilaku Hidup Bersih dan Sehat pada orangtua siswa sekolah dasar sebagai upaya pencegahan penularan virus Covid-19. Media leaflet dianggap lebih efektif karena peningkatan rata-rata skornya lebih besar daripada kelompok media komik.

scholarly journals Culturally congruent mentorship can reduce disruptive behavior among elementary school students: results from a pilot study

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur H. Owora ◽  
Najah Salaam ◽  
Sydney H. Russell Leed ◽  
Dessa Bergen-Cico ◽  
Timothy Jennings-Bey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Disruptive Behavior ◽  
Elementary School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Culturally Congruent

scholarly journals Elementary School Students’ Mental Models about Formation of Seasons: A Cross Sectional Study

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cumhur TURK ◽  
Huseyin KALKAN ◽  
Kasim KIROGLU ◽  
Nazan OCAK ISKELELI
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Mental Models ◽  
Elementary School Students ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Black Sea Region ◽  
Physical Scale ◽  
Hands On

<p>The purpose of this study is to determine the mental models of elementary school students on seasons and to analyze how these models change in terms of grade levels. The study was conducted with 294 students (5<sup>th</sup>, 6<sup>th</sup>, 7<sup>th</sup> and 8<sup>th</sup> graders) studying in an elementary school of Turkey’s Black Sea Region. Qualitative and quantitative data collection methods were used in the study. The students first were asked 3 open ended questions (one of them was a drawing) in order to determine their mental models on seasons. Following this, the students took an achievement test on seasons that consisted of 4 multiple questions. Quantitative data were analyzed by SPSS 20.0 while the qualitative data were analyzed by the researchers by using content analysis technique. The results of the study showed that the students construct the formation of seasons in various ways in their minds. However, differently from the literature, the presence of some new mental models was found. For a full understanding of the seasons, the necessity of a set of pre-learnings has been recommended. It will be useful to design basic activities based on hands-on and learning by doing which will enable the most effective learning and to put this in the textbooks in the most suitable way. Additionally tangible physical-scale hands-on models, 3D simulation modeling and planetarium environment should be used in students’ education about formation of seasons.</p>

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