The Effect of healthy diet education on the College students

• Main Authors: Chien-Huang Liao, 廖倩凰
• Other Authors: Fu-Hui Lee
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28184730491491199141

碩士 === 中臺科技大學 === 護理研究所 === 99 === Taiwan currently faces the poor diet forms that lack high fiber food, and some scholars argue that schools are the optimal places to administer health promotion activities. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to explore the effects of healthy diet teaching program intervention on the 5-a-day diet (five fruits and vegetables per day) of junior college students. This study adopted a quasi-experimental research methodology, in which first-year students at a nursing junior college in central Taiwan were used as subjects, with 52 in the experiment group and 51 in the control group. Those in the experiment group participated in the healthy diet teaching program, which included four sessions of healthy diet intervention activity, and each session lasted for 50 minutes. The control group did not undergo the healthy diet teaching program. The researcher designed a self-filled structural questionnaire as the evaluation tool for the pre- and post-tests. Questionnaire contents included four portions: demographic data, knowledge (r=0.6) , attitudes (Cronbach’s α=0.8), and behavior (Cronbach’s α=0.89). The results showed that after junior college students participated in the healthy diet teaching program, the experiment group had significantly higher scores in the post-test on 5-a-day diet knowledge, attitudes, and behavior compared to the post-test for the control group. For junior college students, the experiment group’s 5-a-day diet knowledge, attitudes, and behavior scores for the post-test were higher than the experiment group’s pre-test. In conclusion, this study found that intervention of hygienic education activities produces an instantaneous and significant change for the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of nursing junior college students, and has a lasting effect. This study suggested that junior college students should cultivate good life skills in order to cultivate good eating habits. Due to the long-term implementation of life skills, they require the support of their schools and families. Therefore, when schools popularize health-promotion activities, they should take care to have simultaneous developments in the family and school, in order to realize these activities in the daily lives of junior college students.