Pilot Project Intervention of Nutrition and Health Education for Mother and Provision of Energy-Dense Cookies in Early Childhood to Improve Their Nutritional Status

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10.2991/assehr.k.191217.024How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Interventions, early childhood, nutrition and health education, energy-dense biscuits

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of nutrition and health education interventions and provision of energy-dense biscuits on the nutritional status in early childhood. Intervention nutrition education is done by 1) nutrition and health education for 2 × 2 hours and giving a practical guide book “Nutrition and Health for the Early Childhood”to the teacher and early chidhood’s mother to be learned and applied in parenting, in two different early childhood education in Semarang, 2) the provision of energy-dense biscuits made of cornstarch (50%), mung bean flour (60%) and purple parsnip flour (50%) on early childhood for 30 days @ 20 g. To determine the effectiveness of interventions performed by N-gain calculation and difference test by “paired samples t-test”. The results showed that 1) the intervention improves nutritional and health knowledgeas well as knowledge of snack food on teachers and early childhood’s mother with N-gain respectively 0.50 and 0.34 (medium category) and differed significantly (p = 0.000), 2) intervention increases early childhood’s nutritional status towards good nutritional status/normal and significantly different with p = 0.034. After the intervention of the early childhood’s nutritional status, the children with normal nutritional status is 90.4 % (up to 6,2 %), wasting 6.3% (down to 6.2 %) and obesity 3.1 %(constant).

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Siti Fathonah
AU  - Sarwi
AU  - Rosidah
AU  - Aris Handoyo
AU  - dan Titis Budi Rahayu
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2019/12/19
TI  - Pilot Project Intervention of Nutrition and Health Education for Mother and Provision of Energy-Dense Cookies in Early Childhood to Improve Their Nutritional Status
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Vocational Education International Conference (VEIC 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 143
EP  - 149
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.191217.024
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.191217.024
ID  - Fathonah2019
ER  -