Nutrition Education Intervention to Promote Food Label Knowledge, Attitude and Practice among Secondary School Students in Giza Governorate

Abstract

Background: Increasing Nutritional knowledge among adolescence will prevent nutrition related health problems in adulthood. Food labels provide information about food and help to make a healthy decisions. Objectives: To measure knowledge, attitude and practice(KAP) of secondary school students about food labels, to implement and evaluate a nutrition education program regarding food label KAP and to assess association between body mass index(BMI) and KAP about food label among secondary school students. Subjects & Methods: Two phases study The first phase was cross sectional and the second phase was controlled nutrition education intervention. Sample size was 122 secondary school students who were assigned into two groups; 59 as the intervention arm and 63 as the control arm according to students' acceptance. Anthropometric measures were assessed for all participants and KAP questionnaires were collected.KAP questionnaire scores were 12 for knowledge, 30 for attitude and 20 for practice The intervention group received the nutrition education intervention in the form of interactive lecture. Post intervention questionnaires were collected from both groups after one month. Data were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS).