Adeoya Akindele Abimibayo, Akinwusi Adetoun Tayewo, Nagatomi Ryoichi
Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise Laboratory Graduate School of Medicine Tohoku University Sendai Japan.
Division for Interdisciplinary Advanced Research and Education Advanced Graduate School Tohoku University Sendai Japan.
Food Sci Nutr. 2023 Apr 17;11(7):3758-3766. doi: 10.1002/fsn3.3359. eCollection 2023 Jul.
Children's food choices affect their nutritional health, development, and well-being. In Nigeria, school lunch is generally unregulated; the food menu is usually at the discretion of individual vendors forcing pupils to make unsupervised food choices. This study examined the effectiveness of 6-week nutrition education in enhancing pupils' knowledge and attitude on the school mid-day meal choices in Ibadan, Nigeria. A pre-test/post-test, quasi-experimental study was conducted with 100 pupils in 4th and 5th grades in public primary schools. Multistage sampling was used to select the participants. A nutrition education module and a questionnaire were used to collect the data. Frequency counts and -test were used for statistical analysis. Findings revealed the following dietary pattern: 44 of the pupils preferred junk food (mean 41.5, SD = 12.9), 37 were inclined toward protein-rich food (mean 37.7, SD = 12.5), 32 favored food items dense in carbohydrates (mean 34.4, SD = 9.5), and 11 showed a preference toward food with high vitamins and minerals (mean 28.4, SD = 7.5). Nutrition knowledge ( = 6.4, df = 99, < .05); (pre-test: = 20.9 and SD = 1.0; post-test: = 22.8, SD = 2.8) and attitude toward choice of meal showed statistically significant differences ( = 4.9, df = 99, < .05; pre-test: = 13.5 and SD = 6.8; post-test: = 18.2, SD = 7.2). We recommend that the Ministry of Education should prepare a standard lunch menu for all schools and the school authorities should enforce it through the schools' food vendors.
儿童的食物选择会影响他们的营养健康、发育和幸福。在尼日利亚，学校午餐通常缺乏监管；食物菜单通常由个体摊贩自行决定，这迫使学生在无人监督的情况下做出食物选择。本研究调查了为期6周的营养教育对提高尼日利亚伊巴丹小学生对学校午餐选择的知识和态度的有效性。对公立小学4年级和5年级的100名学生进行了一项前测/后测的准实验研究。采用多阶段抽样来选择参与者。使用一个营养教育模块和一份问卷来收集数据。使用频数计数和t检验进行统计分析。研究结果揭示了以下饮食模式：44名学生更喜欢垃圾食品（均值41.5，标准差=12.9），37名倾向于富含蛋白质的食物（均值37.7，标准差=12.5），32名喜欢碳水化合物含量高的食物（均值34.4，标准差=9.5），11名表现出对富含维生素和矿物质食物的偏好（均值28.4，标准差=7.5）。营养知识（t=6.4，自由度=99，p<0.05）；（前测：均值=20.9，标准差=1.0；后测：均值=22.8，标准差=2.8）以及对餐食选择的态度显示出统计学上的显著差异（t=4.9，自由度=99，p<0.05；前测：均值=13.5，标准差=6.8；后测：均值=18.2，标准差=7.2）。我们建议教育部应为所有学校制定一份标准午餐菜单，学校当局应通过学校的食品摊贩来执行。
