Development Of Nutritional Status By Nutrition Education For School Going Boys (13 To 15 Years) In Vijayawada And Chennai

The study aims at ascertaining the most appropriate communication media to be used to bringing about improvement in nutritional knowledge, attitudinal change in children for sustainable development. 300 school going children (13-15 years), 300 boys were selected randomly from Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh) and Chennai (Tamilnadu) further grouped as normal weight, over weight and underweight based on BMI for age percentile. Questionnaire as the tool framed to collect data from respondents. Communication media comprising of power point presentation was used. Pre and post tests were conducted to assess the gain in knowledge. The result reveals that the awareness toward nutrition was positive before presentation and showed more than 10% of improvement in gaining knowledge in nutritional awareness, physical activity and lifestyle, whereas only 2% to 3% progress was observed in the parameters of Food group, Nutrients, Deficiency disorders and healthy habits. Over all boys and girls interest to introduce high-nutrient foods and variety their diet increased significantly. 100% of improvement was shown by boys and girls towards adopting healthy habits. Thus imparting nutrition education improved the knowledge score of all the respondent in all the parameters. Which if continued in future, can have long lasting effect on improvement of nutritional status and healthy lifestyle.