Skills-Based Education for Promoting Healthy Diet Among Female Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial Study

Poor dietary habits among adolescents could cause serious health conditions in adulthood. Skill-based health education seems to be more effective than structured educational methods in increasing knowledge, changing attitudes, and improving dietary behavior among adolescents. This study aimed to ass...

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Published in:Child & adolescent social work journal 2022-02, Vol.39 (1), p.87-95
Main Authors: Simbar, Masoumeh, Nazarpour, Soheila, Arabi, Zeinab, Keshavarz, Zohreh, Baghestani, Ahmad Reza
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent girls
Adolescents
Attitudes
Behavior
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Chi-square test
Clinical Psychology
Clinical research
Clinical trials
Control groups
Diet
Educational Methods
Educational programs
Females
Fishermen
Habits
Health behavior
Health education
Intervention
IRCT
IRCT201311278801N6
Knowledge
Lecture Method
Personality and Social Psychology
Psychology
Public schools
Questionnaires
Randomized Controlled Trials
Secondary school students
Secondary schools
Skills
Sociology
Statistical Analysis
Teenagers
Variance analysis
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Summary:Poor dietary habits among adolescents could cause serious health conditions in adulthood. Skill-based health education seems to be more effective than structured educational methods in increasing knowledge, changing attitudes, and improving dietary behavior among adolescents. This study aimed to assess the effects of a skills-based healthy diet education program on female adolescents' dietary knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. This was a randomized trial study on 80 female students of two randomly selected public female high schools in Tehran, Iran. The participants were randomly assigned to an intervention and a control group. The intervention group underwent a skills-based educational program and the control group educated by a conventional lecture method. The demographic questionnaires were completed before the intervention and the Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) questionnaires were completed three times: before, immediately after, and two months following the interventions. Data was analyzed using SPSS 21 and Repeated Measure ANOVA (RMANOVA), t -test, Mann–Whitney, Fishers exact test, and Chi Square. The knowledge increased significantly in both groups after the educational programs ( p  
ISSN:0738-0151
1573-2797
DOI:10.1007/s10560-020-00696-y