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Kupolati, Mojisola D.
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MacIntyre, Una Elizabeth
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Gericke, Gerda J.
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Becker, Piet J.
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2020-02-25T05:31:13Z |
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2020-02-25T05:31:13Z |
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2019-09-18 |
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dc.description.abstract |
BACKGROUND : Evaluating the impact of a nutrition education program could provide
insight into the effectiveness of an intervention. Researchers tested the hypothesis that a
theory-based contextual nutrition education program (NEP) would improve the nutrition
knowledge, attitudes, and dietary practices (KAP) of teachers and learners.
METHODS : Twenty three teachers who taught nutrition in Grades 4–7 (treatment
school, n = 12) and 681 learners (treatment school, n = 350) participated in the
study. In this quasi-experimental study, two primary schools were randomly selected to
implement a contextual NEP. The nutrition KAP were assessed using previously validated
questionnaires. The treatment school teachers taught nutrition using a developed
nutrition education manual, while the control school teachers taught nutrition in the usual
manner. Random effects Generalized Least Squares regression estimated the difference
in the teachers’ and learners’ KAP for the treatment and control schools; p = 0.025 for
a one-tailed test.
RESULTS : At post-implementation, the treatment school teachers’ had higher total
nutrition knowledge mean score (85.5% ± 8.2, p = 0.003) compared to the control
school.Within the treatment school, total nutrition knowledgemean score of the teachers
improved by 14.1%, p ≤ 0.001. Learners in the treatment school had higher total nutrition
knowledge (53.2% ± 16.9, p = 0.002) and nutrition attitude (63.9% ± 19.7, p = 0.001)
scores compared to learners in the control school. Within the treatment school, learners’
total nutrition knowledge and nutrition attitudes scores increased by 4.9%, p ≤ 0.001 and
6.9%, p ≤ 0.001, respectively. The dietary practices of the teachers and the learners, and the nutrition attitudes of the teachers in the treatment school showed no significant within
school improvement or in comparison with the control school (p > 0.025).
CONCLUSIONS : The NEP led to the improvement in the teachers’ and the learners’
nutrition knowledge and the learners’ nutrition attitudes. However, no significant
improvement in the dietary practices of either teachers or learners was found. |
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Human Nutrition |
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am2020 |
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dc.description.sponsorship |
The Institute for Food, Nutrition,
andWell-being of the University of Pretoria, the Nestle Nutrition
Institute Africa, and the Association of African Universities. |
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dc.description.uri |
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health# |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Kupolati MD, MacIntyre UE,
Gericke GJ and Becker P (2019) A
Contextual Nutrition Education
Program Improves Nutrition
Knowledge and Attitudes of South
African Teachers and Learners.
Frontiers in Public Health 7:258.
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00258. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
2296-2565 (online) |
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10.3389/fpubh.2019.00258 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/2263/73521 |
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en |
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Frontiers Media |
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dc.rights |
© 2019 Kupolati, MacIntyre, Gericke and Becker. This is an open-access
article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC
BY). |
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dc.subject |
Contextual nutrition education program |
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dc.subject |
Nutrition knowledge |
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dc.subject |
Teachers |
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dc.subject |
Learners |
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Impact evaluation |
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dc.subject |
Attitudes |
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dc.subject |
Practices |
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dc.subject |
Knowledge, attitudes, and dietary practices (KAP) |
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Nutrition education program (NEP) |
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dc.title |
A contextual nutrition education program improves nutrition knowledge and attitudes of South African teachers and learners |
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dc.type |
Article |
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