Effectiveness of Nutrition Teaching Modules on Students of Rural Junior Colleges
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2017-05
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University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad
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The study was undertaken in the year 2016-17 in Dharwad district of Karnataka state and Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand state with a sample size of 300 (150 from each district) rural junior college students to know the effectiveness of nutrition teaching modules. An education intervention of before and after experimental design was provided on nutrition and health for three groups viz., controlled group with lecture + discussion, treated group-1 with module 1 (lecture + PPT + discussion) and treated group-2 with module 2 (lecture + video clipping + discussion). The effectiveness of teaching modules was measured in terms of knowledge gain by assessing pre and post test with the help of questionnaire.
An analysis of the data indicated that in Dharwad taluk, majority of colleges having proper facilities of furniture (86.70 %), sufficient number of classrooms (83.30 %) and good teachers (82.00 %). In Pithoragarh taluk, cent per cent of the colleges having proper facilities regarding sufficient number of classrooms, adequate books in library, proper facility of computer laboratory and internet facilities.
Relationship of independent variables and knowledge about nutrition and health showed that, amongst all the variables, study habits, mothers education and family size showed highly significant relationship with the knowledge of the students.
With regard to effectiveness of nutrition teaching modules, overall effectiveness of teaching modules showed that after post test, gain in knowledge of the students with module-2 was found to be highest in terms of index i.e., from 38.22 to 60.81 (knowledge gain of 22.59) in Dharwad taluk and from 42.59 to 75.66 (knowledge gain of 33.07) in Pithoragarh taluk regarding nutrition and health. This clearly indicated that intervention programme with module-2 was found to be more effective in imparting knowledge to rural junior college students in both Dharwad and Pithoragarh taluk of Karnataka and Uttarakhand.