Abstract: Childhood obesity has escalated to an alarming proportion in the last twenty years. It is currently the most preventable nutritional disease of the 21st century. School aged children have well-defined food preferences and dislikes, preferring large amounts of sugar and starches while avoiding vegetables and protein foods. These years may signal for the appearance of obesity. This study was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of video assisted teaching program on knowledge regarding the impact of junk foods on obesity among school age children in a selected school at Bangalore. An evaluative approach was adopted and a quasi experimental one group pre-test post-test design was used for the study. 60 School age children (5th & 6th Standard) of Dayananda Sagar International School, Bangalore were selected by simple random sampling technique. The pre-test was followed by the implementation of video assisted teaching programme and post test was conducted after 7 days using the same structured questionnaire. The results were described by using descriptive and inferential statistical analysis. Results of the study revealed that the overall post test mean knowledge score 21.31 (85.26%) were significantly higher than the overall mean pre-test knowledge scores 8.63 (34.53%) and the computed paired‘t’ value 34.48 is higher than the table value 3.46 at P<0.001 level. The overall findings of the study clearly showed that the video assisted teaching programme was significantly effective in improving the knowledge regarding the impact of junk foods on obesity among school age children.
Keywords: Impact, Junk food, Obesity, School age Children.
Title: Effectiveness of Video Assisted Teaching Program on Knowledge Regarding the Impact of Junk Foods on Obesity among School Age Children in a selected School, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Author: Sowmya. A.V
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
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