Effectiveness of Behavior Modification on Food Consumption and Physical Activity Program among Overweight Village Health Volunteer in Patumrachwongsa District Amnatcharoen Province

Abstract

Overweight is an important problem at all levels and is likely to increase. Caused by changing behavior food consumption and physical activity. Therefore, the problem of overweight should be adjusted to change both food and exercise behaviors. This quasi-experimental research aimed to investigate the Effectiveness of Behavior modification on Food consumption and Physical activity program among overweight Village Health Volunteer. The samples were Village Health Volunteer in Patumrachwongsa District Amnatcharoen Province who are overweight according to the Ministry of Public Health's regulations are the body mass index ranging. They were devided into an experimental and a comparison group 45 participants each. A 12 weeks behavior modification program that comprised of different activities such as lecture, handbook, modeling, demonstrating cooking and practicing healthy food, organize food models according to nutrition flags, exercise by balancing dance with folk music, weight loss competition. Data was collected before and after the intervention from both groups by interview. Ordinary descriptive statistics were used for assessing the outcome of the study and for analytical purposes inferential statistics such as the pair t-test and independent t-test was applied. Statistical significance was set at p<0.05 and 95% confidence interval (95%CI).

The results of study showed that the differences between the mean score of knowledge, perceived self-efficacy, outcome expectation, practice of food consumption and physical activity, health literacy about overweight prevention were statistically significance higher for participants in the experimental group and higher than those of the comparative group after implementations, while the mean score of BMI and waist circumference were statistically significance lower than those of the comparative group after implementations. As expected, this behavior modification on food consumption and physical activity program was successful for BMI and waist circumference among overweight Village Health Volunteer.