Effect of School-Based Nutrition and Health Education for Rural Chinese Children
The nutritional status of rural Chinese children has improved in recent years, but their nutritional knowledge is still relatively lacking. School-based nutrition and health education was conducted for children in three counties of China from 2018 to 2020. The students in the intervention schools we...
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| author | Ying Xu Xiaoyi Bi Tingting Gao Titi Yang Peipei Xu Qian Gan Juan Xu Wei Cao Hongliang Wang Hui Pan Zhibin Ren Chunjie Yin Qian Zhang |
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| description | The nutritional status of rural Chinese children has improved in recent years, but their nutritional knowledge is still relatively lacking. School-based nutrition and health education was conducted for children in three counties of China from 2018 to 2020. The students in the intervention schools were given two-year nutrition and health education courses, while the control schools did not receive any intervention. Students’ nutrition knowledge, dietary intake, and dietary behaviors were collected using a questionnaire, and height and weight were measured uniformly. The nutrition knowledge score in the intervention group was increased by 1.01 and 0.64 points in the first and second years. A multilevel model was used to evaluate the intervention effects. Statistically significant interactions between groups and time were observed in nutrition knowledge, the frequency of eating breakfast, and dietary intake, including meat, eggs, milk, and vegetables (<i>p</i> < 0.05), but not in nutritional status. Therefore, the supplementation of school-based nutrition and health education had a positive impact on the nutrition knowledge and dietary intake of rural Chinese children. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-55c2b20f3b8d4e69b258ef6f201950592023-11-23T21:23:51ZengMDPI AGNutrients2072-66432022-09-011419399710.3390/nu14193997Effect of School-Based Nutrition and Health Education for Rural Chinese ChildrenYing Xu0Xiaoyi Bi1Tingting Gao2Titi Yang3Peipei Xu4Qian Gan5Juan Xu6Wei Cao7Hongliang Wang8Hui Pan9Zhibin Ren10Chunjie Yin11Qian Zhang12Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, NHC Key Laboratory of Trace Element Nutrition, National Institute for Nutrition and Health, Beijing 100050, ChinaChinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, NHC Key Laboratory of Trace Element Nutrition, National Institute for Nutrition and Health, Beijing 100050, ChinaChinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, NHC Key Laboratory of Trace Element Nutrition, National Institute for Nutrition and Health, Beijing 100050, ChinaChinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, NHC Key Laboratory of Trace Element Nutrition, National Institute for Nutrition and Health, Beijing 100050, ChinaChinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, NHC Key Laboratory of Trace Element Nutrition, National Institute for Nutrition and Health, Beijing 100050, ChinaChinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, NHC Key Laboratory of Trace Element Nutrition, National Institute for Nutrition and Health, Beijing 100050, ChinaChinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, NHC Key Laboratory of Trace Element Nutrition, National Institute for Nutrition and Health, Beijing 100050, ChinaChinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, NHC Key Laboratory of Trace Element Nutrition, National Institute for Nutrition and Health, Beijing 100050, ChinaChinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, NHC Key Laboratory of Trace Element Nutrition, National Institute for Nutrition and Health, Beijing 100050, ChinaChinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, NHC Key Laboratory of Trace Element Nutrition, National Institute for Nutrition and Health, Beijing 100050, ChinaChinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, NHC Key Laboratory of Trace Element Nutrition, National Institute for Nutrition and Health, Beijing 100050, ChinaSchool of Public Health, Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi 830017, ChinaChinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, NHC Key Laboratory of Trace Element Nutrition, National Institute for Nutrition and Health, Beijing 100050, ChinaThe nutritional status of rural Chinese children has improved in recent years, but their nutritional knowledge is still relatively lacking. School-based nutrition and health education was conducted for children in three counties of China from 2018 to 2020. The students in the intervention schools were given two-year nutrition and health education courses, while the control schools did not receive any intervention. Students’ nutrition knowledge, dietary intake, and dietary behaviors were collected using a questionnaire, and height and weight were measured uniformly. The nutrition knowledge score in the intervention group was increased by 1.01 and 0.64 points in the first and second years. A multilevel model was used to evaluate the intervention effects. Statistically significant interactions between groups and time were observed in nutrition knowledge, the frequency of eating breakfast, and dietary intake, including meat, eggs, milk, and vegetables (<i>p</i> < 0.05), but not in nutritional status. Therefore, the supplementation of school-based nutrition and health education had a positive impact on the nutrition knowledge and dietary intake of rural Chinese children.https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/19/3997childrennutrition knowledgedietary behaviorsnutrition educationschool-based intervention |
| spellingShingle | Ying Xu Xiaoyi Bi Tingting Gao Titi Yang Peipei Xu Qian Gan Juan Xu Wei Cao Hongliang Wang Hui Pan Zhibin Ren Chunjie Yin Qian Zhang Effect of School-Based Nutrition and Health Education for Rural Chinese Children Nutrients children nutrition knowledge dietary behaviors nutrition education school-based intervention |
| title | Effect of School-Based Nutrition and Health Education for Rural Chinese Children |
| title_full | Effect of School-Based Nutrition and Health Education for Rural Chinese Children |
| title_fullStr | Effect of School-Based Nutrition and Health Education for Rural Chinese Children |
| title_full_unstemmed | Effect of School-Based Nutrition and Health Education for Rural Chinese Children |
| title_short | Effect of School-Based Nutrition and Health Education for Rural Chinese Children |
| title_sort | effect of school based nutrition and health education for rural chinese children |
| topic | children nutrition knowledge dietary behaviors nutrition education school-based intervention |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/19/3997 |
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