ผลของโปรแกรมการส่งเสริมความรอบรู้ด้านสุขภาพและการสนับสนุนทางสังคมของนักเรียนประถมศึกษาที่มีภาวะน้ำหนักเกิน อำเภอคลองหลวง จังหวัดปทุมธานี

Sasitorn  Tantiekkarat

Authors

Sasitorn Tantiekkarat Valaya Alongkorn Rajabhat University under the Royal Patronage, Pathumthani, Thailand

Keywords:

Health literacy and social support promotion program, overweight, primary school student

Abstract

This two-group pre- and post-test quasi-experimental study aimed to examine the effects of health literacy and social support promotion program among overweight primary school students, Khlong Luang District, Pathumthani Province. Sample consisted of primary school students in Grade 4-6 with overweight and obesity. Participants were randomly assigned to the experimental group (n=30) and the control group (n=30). The experimental instrument was the program of health literacy and social support including the principles of food consumption, reading the traffic light nutrition labels, the principles of physical activity, and using various social media such as Line groups and Facebook pages to share news and social support from teachers over 12 weeks. Research instruments included the eating and exercise behavior questionnaires validated by three experts; the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient were .81, and .83, respectively. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and an independent sample t-test.

Results indicated that eating and exercise behavior means scores of the experimental group were significantly higher than the control group (p<.05). After participating in the program, mean body weight of the experimental group was not significantly lower than the control group (p>.05). These results suggest that nurses and healthcare providers could potentially use this program as a guideline for changing eating and exercise behavior to ultimately control weight among overweight primary school students.

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