Evaluation of School Health Unit and Nutrition Education Implementation of Yogyakarta High Schools During COVID-19 Pandemic

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10.2991/978-94-6463-190-6_37How to use a DOI?

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management; school health unit; nutrition; education; adolescents

Abstract

Background: School health unit (SHU) play an important role in increasing access to health services of students. However, there are still obstacles in implementing school health and nutrition programs during COVID-19. Objective: This study aims to evaluate the implementation of SHU and nutrition education program of High School in Yogyakarta. Methods: This study was descriptive observational research design. Four teachers who were the coordinator of SHU involved as informants from each school. All of data were collected by interview based on a questionnaire. SHU questionnaire contained of eight components. The percentages of SHU development and implementation were based on the number of questions that meet the maximum score. Results: The findings showed that most schools were ready and had the provisions to accelerate the development and implementation of SHU. Several components appeared to be lacking were the process of facilitating local wisdom, partnerships and community participation, the role of school principals, teachers, parents and the community, and quantity and quality of trained SHU personnel. The school curriculum which contains nutritional material is in the subjects of Biology, Entrepreneurship, Basic Culinary, and Food Knowledge. The most frequent nutrition educators in schools were from public health services, the methods were classic lecture, and the media were slide presentation and poster/graphic. Conclusion: It was necessary to increase the quality of the resources in the SHU management system. Cross-sector collaboration was needed to foster and support the implementation of the SHU program.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Dian Retnaningdiah
AU  - Silvi Lailatul Mahfida
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/07/27
TI  - Evaluation of School Health Unit and Nutrition Education Implementation of Yogyakarta High Schools During COVID-19 Pandemic
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 ‘AISYIYAH International Conference on Health and Medical Sciences (A-HMS 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 285
EP  - 298
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-190-6_37
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-190-6_37
ID  - Retnaningdiah2023
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