Pariyaporn Maneedang. The effectiveness of dietary and exercise behavior development program for overweight students . Master's Degree(Public Health Nursing). Mahidol University. : Mahidol University, 2007.
The effectiveness of dietary and exercise behavior development program for overweight students
Abstract:
The prevalence of overweight children has been increasing especially among
school children aged 10-12 years old. This age is a crucial developmental period.
Being overweight or obese has an adversely affects on physical and psychosocial
development and obesity in childhood can become obesity in adulthood. The purpose
of this quasi-experimental study was to evaluate the effect of health behavior
development program applying self-efficacy theory and social support for improving
dietary and exercise behavior in overweight students. The sample consisted of
overweight students aged from 10-12 years from 2 schools. One group was selected to
be the experimental group with 31 students and the other was selected to be the
comparison group with 32 students. The research procedure was 5 weeks for dietary
and exercise behavior development program and 4 weeks follow-up. Data were
collected by self-administered questionnaires. Statistical analysis was performed by
using mean, standard deviation, Independent Sample t-test and Repleted measure
ANOVA.
The result of this study indicate that after the experiment and 4 weeks follow
up, the experimental group had significantly higher mean score of knowledge about
obesity, dietary and exercise, belief in self-efficacy, outcome expectation and practice
on dietary and exercise than before the experiment and than those of the comparison
group(p-value<0.05).
The results of this research indicate that the dietary and exercise behavior
development program by applying self-efficacy theory and social support had some
effect increasing knowledge about obesity, dietary and exercise and self-efficacy.
Involvement of the parent could also enhance sustainable practices. Therefore, we
should continuously promote and support this program as well as other influencing
factors such as school, teacher and friends