The Weight Control Education and the Weight Control Awareness Education ? the Research Target ? Nantou Elementary School

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Title:	The Weight Control Education and the Weight Control Awareness Education ? the Research Target ? Nantou Elementary School
Authors:	Ying-Xiu,Guo
Contributors:	Department of Healthcare Administration/Healthcare Division
Keywords:	weight control, under weight, over weight, obesity, BMI ration
Date:	2009
Issue Date:	2009-11-17 11:12:45 (UTC+0)
Publisher:	Asia University
Abstract:	School is a major forum to put education into practice. Education is a prolonged and continuous process. Children are our future. Only children with healthy well-being can achieve effective learning. Therefore, if poor health occurs to children, their learning and our hope for the future will be impaired. Recently, there is a tendency for increase weight of our children. The results of ?Statistics of Taiwanese Elementary School Children?s weights, nutrient, and health from 2001~2002? show that the over-weight ratio of elementary students is 15%. The obesity ratio of elementary students is 12%. Comparing the results of this research and the statistics aforementioned, the ratio of weight control between the two is comparable. Whereas, the obesity ratio is increased by 3.3%. The ratio tells us to recognize the obesity problem in our elementary students. This research focuses on the awareness of weight control of elementary students as a main issue to explore the influence of our weight control education. The focuses are stratified into the knowledge of weight control, the attitude towards weight control, and the behavior of weight control. Subjects of this research are students of Nan Tou Elementary School which are grouped into experiment group and control group. There are 511 valid questionnaires collected. The data are analyzed pre-test, and post-test cross sectional analysis. The utilized research methods include descriptive statistic, variant analysis research method, Scheffe?s method to explore the different variances among groups. Also, the variances are used to measure the degree of responsive level of different groups, and different grades. Therefore, the influential factors of the awareness of weight control can be detected. In the hope that more effective weight control education can be created after the published of this research. The results of this research show that after the intervention of the weight control education, the surveys of the experimental group have increased 18.66 points after the intervened course. The control group has dropped 1.01 point with no treatment at all. The result is scientifically significant. Also, there is no correlation among BMI (Body Mass Index), the attitude towards weight control and behavioral factors of weight control. There is correlation between the knowledge of weight control and attitude towards weight control. There is no correlation between knowledge factor and behavior factor. This research suggests that weight control education can effectively improve elementary students? awareness of weight control. The results of this research can be used to provide an effective educational method of weight control. Therefore, the ratio of the over-weight and obesity can be decreased and further be eliminated in the future.
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