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Nutrition education improves knowledge and BMI-for-age in Ghanaian school-aged children
BACKGROUND: Adequate nutrition is required for growth and development in children. This study tested the effectiveness of nutrition education on knowledge and BMI-for-age (BFA) of school-aged children in the Kumasi Metropolis. METHODS: Children, aged 9–13 years old were recruited from ten randomly s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8568213/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34795753 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v21i2.55 |
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author | Annan, Reginald A Apprey, Charles Agyemang, Godwin O Tuekpe, Diane M Asamoah-Boakye, Odeafo Okonogi, Satoru Yamauchi, Taro Sakurai, Takeshi |
author_facet | Annan, Reginald A Apprey, Charles Agyemang, Godwin O Tuekpe, Diane M Asamoah-Boakye, Odeafo Okonogi, Satoru Yamauchi, Taro Sakurai, Takeshi |
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description | BACKGROUND: Adequate nutrition is required for growth and development in children. This study tested the effectiveness of nutrition education on knowledge and BMI-for-age (BFA) of school-aged children in the Kumasi Metropolis. METHODS: Children, aged 9–13 years old were recruited from ten randomly selected primary schools in the Metropolis. The schools were randomly allocated into 3 groups: nutrition education (3 schools), physical activity (PA) education (3 schools), both interventions (2 schools), or control (2 schools). Following a baseline nutrition and PA knowledge and status assessment in 433 children, twice-monthly nutrition and PA education and demonstrations were carried out for 6 months, followed by a post-intervention assessment. RESULTS: PA and nutrition knowledge improved in all groups (P<0.001); the highest improvement was among those who received both interventions (31.0%), followed by the nutrition education group (29.8%), and the least, the control group (19.1%). Overall, BFA improved by +0.36, from baseline (-0.26) to end of the intervention (+0.10, P<0.001). Within the groups, the nutrition group (+0.65, P<.001) had the highest improvement, then, both the intervention group (+0.27, P<0.001), the PA group (+0.23, P<0.001) and lastly, the control group (+0.18, P=0.001). CONCLUSION: Nutrition education could improve knowledge and BMI-for-age in school-aged children in Ghana. |
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spelling | pubmed-85682132021-11-17 Nutrition education improves knowledge and BMI-for-age in Ghanaian school-aged children Annan, Reginald A Apprey, Charles Agyemang, Godwin O Tuekpe, Diane M Asamoah-Boakye, Odeafo Okonogi, Satoru Yamauchi, Taro Sakurai, Takeshi Afr Health Sci Articles BACKGROUND: Adequate nutrition is required for growth and development in children. This study tested the effectiveness of nutrition education on knowledge and BMI-for-age (BFA) of school-aged children in the Kumasi Metropolis. METHODS: Children, aged 9–13 years old were recruited from ten randomly selected primary schools in the Metropolis. The schools were randomly allocated into 3 groups: nutrition education (3 schools), physical activity (PA) education (3 schools), both interventions (2 schools), or control (2 schools). Following a baseline nutrition and PA knowledge and status assessment in 433 children, twice-monthly nutrition and PA education and demonstrations were carried out for 6 months, followed by a post-intervention assessment. RESULTS: PA and nutrition knowledge improved in all groups (P<0.001); the highest improvement was among those who received both interventions (31.0%), followed by the nutrition education group (29.8%), and the least, the control group (19.1%). Overall, BFA improved by +0.36, from baseline (-0.26) to end of the intervention (+0.10, P<0.001). Within the groups, the nutrition group (+0.65, P<.001) had the highest improvement, then, both the intervention group (+0.27, P<0.001), the PA group (+0.23, P<0.001) and lastly, the control group (+0.18, P=0.001). CONCLUSION: Nutrition education could improve knowledge and BMI-for-age in school-aged children in Ghana. Makerere Medical School 2021-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8568213/ /pubmed/34795753 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v21i2.55 Text en © 2021 Annan RA et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee African Health Sciences. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Articles Annan, Reginald A Apprey, Charles Agyemang, Godwin O Tuekpe, Diane M Asamoah-Boakye, Odeafo Okonogi, Satoru Yamauchi, Taro Sakurai, Takeshi Nutrition education improves knowledge and BMI-for-age in Ghanaian school-aged children |
title | Nutrition education improves knowledge and BMI-for-age in Ghanaian school-aged children |
title_full | Nutrition education improves knowledge and BMI-for-age in Ghanaian school-aged children |
title_fullStr | Nutrition education improves knowledge and BMI-for-age in Ghanaian school-aged children |
title_full_unstemmed | Nutrition education improves knowledge and BMI-for-age in Ghanaian school-aged children |
title_short | Nutrition education improves knowledge and BMI-for-age in Ghanaian school-aged children |
title_sort | nutrition education improves knowledge and bmi-for-age in ghanaian school-aged children |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8568213/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34795753 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v21i2.55 |
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