Research Title: Effects of Health Promotion Program on Knowledge, Behaviors, and Body Weight among Early Adolescents
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Health Promotion Program, Early AdolescentsAbstract
This quasi experimental research aimed to compare knowledge, health promoting behaviors and body weight among early adolescents with overweight pre - post receiving health promotion program. Population were 375 early adolescents with overweightstudying junior high school, Wisutarangsi school. Sample were early adolescents with overweight in Wisutarangsi school. Purposive sample selection criteria included 1) junior high school students of Wisutarangsi school aged 12-14 years, assessed by growth curve yielding overweight, 2) lack of comorbidities which were danger and obstacle to participating in activities, 3) parents’ permission to participate in activities throughout the program, 4) students; willing to participate in the program until the end of experiment. Sample size determination was based on table of estimated statistical power analysis with .60 correlation effect size, yielding the sample of 21. To prevent attrition rate, 20% of sample were added. Hence, the actual sample of this study were 25. Research instrument was nutritional health promotion program. Data were collected through 1) demographic recording form, 2) questionnaire of health promotion knowledge, 3) questionnaire of health promoting behaviors 4) satisfaction questionnaire. Data were analyzed using percentage, mean, standard deviation, and dependent sample t-test. Research results show that;
1) Knowledge and health promoting behaviors after receiving health promotion program were significantly higher than of before (p=.05).
2) Body weight after receiving receiving health promotion program were significantly less than of before (p=.05).
3) Early adolescents with overweight receiving health promotion program had the highest satisfaction of receiving health promotion program
From findings, health promotion program for early adolescents with overweight should be used further to prevent complications as a result of overweight.
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