International Journal of Healthcare Sciences ISSN 2348-5728 (Online) Vol. 8, Issue 1, pp: (123-130), Month: April 2020 - September 2020, Available at: www.researchpublish.com
Effectiveness of Video Assisted Teaching Program on Knowledge Regarding the Impact of Junk Foods on Obesity among School Age Children in a selected School, Bangalore, Karnataka, India Sowmya. A.V Asst.Professor, Dept.of Child Health Nursing College of Nursing Sciences, Dayananda Sagar University, Kumaraswamy Layout, Bangalore-560078, Karnataka, India. Email: sowmya-nsg@dsu.edu.in
Abstract: Childhood obesity has escalated to an alarming proportion in the last twenty years. It is currently the most preventable nutritional disease of the 21 st century. School aged children have well-defined food preferences and dislikes, preferring large amounts of sugar and starches while avoiding vegetables and protein foods. These years may signal for the appearance of obesity. This study was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of video assisted teaching program on knowledge regarding the impact of junk foods on obesity among school age children in a selected school at Bangalore. An evaluative approach was adopted and a quasi experimental one group pretest post-test design was used for the study. 60 School age children (5 th & 6th Standard) of Dayananda Sagar International School, Bangalore were selected by simple random sampling technique. The pre-test was followed by the implementation of video assisted teaching programme and post test was conducted after 7 days using the same structured questionnaire. The results were described by using descriptive and inferential statistical analysis. Results of the study revealed that the overall post test mean knowledge score 21.31 (85.26%) were significantly higher than the overall mean pre-test knowledge scores 8.63 (34.53%) and the computed paired‘t’ value 34.48 is higher than the table value 3.46 at P<0.001 level. The overall findings of the study clearly showed that the video assisted teaching programme was significantly effective in improving the knowledge regarding the impact of junk foods on obesity among school age children. Keywords: Impact, Junk food, Obesity, School age Children.
I. INTRODUCTION “Obesity; Silent Killer in India”. Over the last few decades, children worldwide have become taller, and in some countries also significantly heavier. Obesity in children has tripled in the past two decades and an alarming concern for us to take note of the fact. The world health organization describes the “escalating global epidemic” of obesity as “one of today‟s most blatantly visible yet most neglected public health problem” [1]. The obesity is the disease of the new millennium, because it affects about 300 million people in the world, and especially it has a high prevalence in children. One in four school children in Indian metros is overweight, so is one in six in nonmetro cities. Around 20% of children show signs of obesity. Karnataka has 16.5% of obese children. Obesity is a significant risk factor for cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus type II, hypertension, problems of adaptation and relationship with other, lower self-esteem and depression [2, 3].
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