Assessing the impact of nutrition education on growth indices of Iranian nomadic children: an application of a modified beliefs, attitudes, subjective-norms and enabling-factors model
| العنوان: | Assessing the impact of nutrition education on growth indices of Iranian nomadic children: an application of a modified beliefs, attitudes, subjective-norms and enabling-factors model |
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| المؤلفون: | S. M. Kimiagar, Mohammad Shahbazi, Ali-Asghar Kolahi, Mousa Salehi, Yadollah Mehrabi |
| المصدر: | British Journal of Nutrition. 91:779-787 |
| بيانات النشر: | Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2004. |
| سنة النشر: | 2004 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Adult, Gerontology, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Food Handling, Nutritional Sciences, media_common.quotation_subject, Nutrition Education, Medicine (miscellaneous), Iran, Child Nutrition Disorders, law.invention, Randomized controlled trial, Hygiene, law, Intervention (counseling), Vegetables, medicine, Humans, Cooking, Health Education, Growth Disorders, media_common, Transients and Migrants, Cooking Practices, Nutrition and Dietetics, Poverty, business.industry, Body Weight, Age Factors, Infant, Newborn, Nutritional Requirements, Infant, Fabaceae, medicine.disease, Body Height, Diet, Malnutrition, El Niño, Child, Preschool, Female, Dietary Proteins, business |
| الوصف: | In order to teach suitable feeding and hygiene practices to a group of randomly selected Qashqa'i tribe families with 406 children aged 0–59 months, a culturally appropriate community-based education intervention approach was used. To assess the impact of the intervention on the study group, another group of families with 405 children were randomly selected to serve as the controls. At the beginning of the intervention programme both groups of children had access to a similar diet, consisting of cereals, beans, oil, sugar, milk and yoghurt. Baseline data, age, gender, weight, height and mean arm circumference (MAC), were obtained before the intervention. Using Hubley's behavioural change model, the components of which deal with beliefs, attitudes, subjective norms and enabling factors, the research team studied the behaviour of the family members and tried to change their nutritional behaviour. This was achieved by designing a suitable education programme to be carried out for 12 months. During the programme, families were instructed to follow different methods of food preparation and cooking practices. The final data were collected 3 months after the end of the intervention programme. The results indicated that the children in the study group gained: 1·16 (SD 1·2) kg body weight, 0·033 (SD 0·05) m in height, 0·0067 (SD 0·015) m in MAC, 0·8 (SD 1) in weight-for-age Z-score, 0·97 (SD 1·7) in height-for-age Z-score and 0·28 (SD 1·8) in weight-for-height Z-score by the end of the study. The corresponding values for the control group were 0·42 (SD 1·0), 0·0167 (SD 0·047), 0·0017 (SD 0·012), 0·35 (SD 1·1), 0·56 (SD 1·5) and 0·014 (SD 1·6) respectively and the differences were statistically significant (P |
| تدمد: | 1475-2662 0007-1145 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::97ce59772bd6879c63b3a48b43f11f15 https://doi.org/10.1079/bjn20041099 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....97ce59772bd6879c63b3a48b43f11f15 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 14752662 00071145 |
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