Effects of Nutrition Literacy Promotion Program with 3T. For You “Tuean, Tidtam, Taitham” for Preventing Overnutrition in Upper Primary School Children

Abstract

Overnutrition in school-aged children is a major global public health problem and the problem is on the rise. The cause is changing eating behavior. This quasi-experimental research aimed to study the effects of a nutrition literacy promotion program with 3T. for you “tuean, tidtam, taitham” for preventing overnutrition in upper primary school children. The sample group was students grades 4 to 6. The samples were divided into two groups: the experimental group, consisting of 33 people, and the comparison group, also consisting of 33 people. The experimental group received the nutrition literacy promotion program with 3T. for you “tuean, tidtam, taitham” for preventing overnutrition in upper primary school children created by the researchers, consisting of 6 activities and home visits. The comparison group did not receive any program but received teaching activities according to the normal school curriculum for a period of 10 weeks. Data were analyzed using the independent t-tests, paired t-tests, and McNemar’s Chi-square tests, with a statistical significance level of 0.05

The results of the study found that the behaviors to prevent overnutrition consisted of six skills and the practice to prevent overnutrition. After the experiment, the experimental group had a higher average score and a higher average score after the experiment than those from the comparison group with statistical significance (p-value<0.001), and the nutritional proportion of weight according to height criteria after the experiment was in proportion higher than before the experiment with statistical significance (p-value<0.05)