Implementation of Nutrition Education to Knowledge, Behaviour, and Performance of Junior High School children

Abstract

The prevalence of obeslity increases from year to year. One of the factors that causes obesity was food habits. Precautions need to be taken to undergo this phenomenoms. One effort that can be done was to provide nutrition education to children. This research studied the role of nutrition education given to school age children (8th grade junior high school) towards knowledge, behavior, and overall performance. The study was conducted by giving pre-test and post-test to students who were divided into 2 groups. The first group treated with nutrition education, while the second group did not. Each group consisted of 37 students. The results showed that nutrition education have a strong influence in to knowledge, behaviour, and also the performance of the student. Students who are involved in research are included in the middle to lower class of economics so there are not many opportunities to choose food. Research needs to be done in other locations with middle to upper economic levels.