Study of Nutritional game intervention on Children’s Nutrition Knowledge, Attitude, and Behavior: An Elementary School’s Fifth and Sixth Grade Students as example

• Main Authors: TSENG, KUAN-YING, 曾冠穎
• Other Authors: SHAW, HUEY-MEI
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/w63295

碩士 === 嘉南藥理大學 === 保健營養系 === 105 === Nutritional education with game is a popular activity to elemental school students. We aim to investigate the changes of knowledge, attitudes, behavior in nutrition and food security concept after the camping game intervention. Methods: The questionnaire was designed based on the nutrition and food safety contents of camping game. The questionnaire included basic information, knowledge, attitude and behavior of nutrition and food safety. After expert analysis of the validity, the 5th and 6th grade students in one elementary school in Tainan city were asked to fill the questionnaire before and after game intervention. Independent samples T test was carried out to analyze the difference between before and after game intervention and after game intervention. The correlation was analyzed with chi-squared test. Results: 532 and 364 valid copies of questionnaire were collected before and after game intervention, respectively. The results showed that in the knowledge and behavior, the posteriori accuracy of many cases is better than the previous test and there is significant difference (p<0.05), the attitude part has no significant difference, and in the average total part of the knowledge and behavior also present a positive difference. Conclusion: It is concluded that the nutritional camping game provide a positive effect on the cognition of nutrition and food security for these elementary school students.