| Objective:This study mainly aims to discuss the effects of nutrition education courses on the dietary concepts and behaviors among kindergarten children, and it preliminarily designs a set of suitable nutrition education courses for children aging from5to7, providing school stuff and parents reference materials.Methods:in this study,39kindergarten children from two kindergartens in Taiyuan, Shanxi are chosen to be research object, which are further divided into experimental group with19children and control group with20. Nonequivalent pretest-posttest is used. The independent variable is the total10nutrition lectures, each of which lasts for40minutes with20minutes break in each week and the dependent variable are children’s dietary concepts and their behaviors. Research tools in this study are "children’s dietary concepts scale" and "children’s dietary behaviors scale", which are companied by interview, break observation, and analysis of the worksheets, so that we can investigate the effect of nutrition education courses.Results:1. Quantitative analysis(1) Before the experiment, there’s no significant difference between the control group and the experimental group in the dietary concepts (t=1.82, p>.05) while after it, significant differences can be seen between these two groups (t=10.01***, p<.001), which shows that the effect of Nutrition Education courses on children’s dietary concepts is immediate.(2) Before the experiment, there’s no significant difference between the control group and the experimental group in the dietary behaviors (t=1.52, p>.05) while after it, significant differences can be seen between these two groups (t=2.96**, p<.01), which shows that Nutrition Education courses have some effect on children’s dietary behaviors.(3) After the experiment, there is a significant difference in the posttest-pretest score of dietary concepts(t=9.43***, p<.001) as well as that of dietary behaviors (t=9.37***, p<.001), which shows that Nutrition Education courses effectively improve the children’s dietary concepts and behaviors.(4) After the experiment, it is found that gender and age make no difference in dietary concepts and behaviors.2. Qualitative analysis(1) Students hold a positive attitude in Nutrition Education courses, for that they like this course and their dietary concepts and behaviors have been improved greatly.(2) Parents support Nutrition Education courses too for that the bad dietary behaviors of students at home reduce and they discuss some diet knowledge and food ads with their parents etc.(3) Teachers are in favor of Nutrition Education courses, which in their opinion need to be constantly enriched and perfected. It can be seen in that students positively change in the dietary concepts and behaviors, while the dietary behaviors part in the course still needs to be improved.Conclusions:1. The effect of Nutrition Education courses on children’s dietary concepts is immediate.2. Nutrition Education courses have some effect on children’s dietary behaviors.3. The Nutrition Education courses are supported by students, parents and teachers, while the course still needs to be constantly enriched. What’s more, the cooperation of schools and parents could cultivate children’s good eating habits. |
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