NUTRITION GARDEN BY SCHOOL CHILDREN (10-13 YEARS) AND ITS IMPACT ON NUTRITION KNOWLEDGE AND DIETARY PRACTICES
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2009-07-15
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University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore
Abstract
Nutrition garden in schools are emerging as a nutrition education tool in
academic settings. Fruits and vegetables are important in diet of
children because they provide the body with vitamins, minerals, fiber
and several phytochemicals necessary for growth, development and
maintenance of health. One private school and one government school
adopted by Prem Nath Agricultural Science Foundation- Bangalore
(PNASF), located in Sanjaynagar, Bangalore were selected for the study
and 120 children covered under the study. Majority of the children in
holding the study were from 6th standard i.e. belong to 12 years age
group. Boys were 58.3 per cent and girls were 41.7 per cent. Children
from experimental group, from both the schools participated in nutrition
programme (Nutrition education + nutrition gardening). Nutrition
programme had positive impact on children attitude towards fruits and
vegetables (t=7.10*) and nutrition knowledge of the experimental group
(t=6.54*) compared to control group. Snake and ladder game on
importance of fruits and vegetables had positive impact on improving
the nutrition knowledge of school children both in control (t=11.82*) and
experimental groups (t=12.63*). Intake of fruits and vegetables
significantly increased after nutrition programme in case of private
school boys (t=13.06*) and girls (t=3.66*). Almost all the parents were
aware of their children involvement in the nutrition programme at
school, and majority of them expressed their desire to grow vegetables at
home. Most of the parents responded that programme had a positive
impact on their children eating habits and nutrition knowledge.
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