INTRODUCTION:

Eating is a motive. Healthy eating means choosing the food and nutrients that give the best overall health status possible. The healthy diet should be one that maintains physical health through preventing any nutrient deficiencies or excessive. Both of which can lead to illness or chronic diseases. One can achieve this by modeling daily diet to getting the required number of serves from all five groups of food viz vegetables and legumes, fruits, grains, meats and poultry and dairy product. Many researchers have shown that students learn better when well- nourished. Specifically, health eating has been liked to higher grades, better memory and concentration, more alertness, faster information processing and better attendance. Health eating choices through healthy food choices helps build strong bones, improves immunity and decreases the risk of heart disease, diabetes and some cancers.

Healthy eating includes consuming high- quality proteins, carbohydrates, heart – healthy fats, vitamins, minerals and eater in the foods an individual take in while minimizing processed foods, saturated fats and alcohol. Eating in this manner helps to maintain the body’s every function, promotes optimal body weight and can assist in disease prevention. It has been states that faulty eating habits has an Impact over the health status of an individual as follows. Poor eating habits can impair health and wellbeing and reduce the ability to lead an enjoyable and active life. Poor nutrition can contribute to stress, tiredness and our capacity to work, and overtime, it can contribute to risk of developing some illness and other health problems eg. Over weight, tooth decay, eating disorder, depression etc. Unhealthy diets result in a poor nutrition to- calories ratio, which lead to weight gain and malnutrition as well as related health problems. Faulty eating habits results-nutritional deficiency and very rarely excess. Chronic diseases, stress, heart diseases, cancer, obesity etc. because people replacing whole food meals with snacks. Research has shown that children, who have poor eating habits, continue with the same habits through the life. In fact, the habit become more pronounced as the children grow into adults and then become a part of the family lifestyle and family. The experts at the Harvard School of Public Health State that what a person eats is one of the most important things a person can do to live a healthy lifestyle and prevent illness diseases and reduce the premature death. Developing and maintaining healthy eating habits can result in Big pay off over a lifetime. Not only are the risks of heart disease, cancer, diabetes and other illness reduced, but also to look and feel better. By making a few changes in diet and take a positive approach toward wellness, and individual can make healthy eating habits a natural way of life for individual a family. ^22,23,8

OBJECTIVES:

1. To assess the knowledge regarding healthy eating habits among the parents of school going children.

2. To evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding healthy eating habits.

3. To associate the knowledge existing before the output of structured teaching promramme regarding health eating habits with the selected demographic variables.

HYPOTHESES:

H₁: The structured teaching programme is highly effective in improving the knowledge regarding healthy eating habits among the parents of school going children.

H₂: There will be significant association between the knowledge levels and the selected demographic variables.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY:

DESCRIPTION OF THE TOOL:

Two parts on it, which are as follows

Part- 1: Include question on demographic variables.

Part-2: Includes 15 multiple choice questions related to knowledge on healthy eating habits and the scoring pattern was 1 mark for each correct answer and 0 for every wrong answer. The maximum possible score was 15 and minimum score was 0.

DATA COLLECTION PROCEDURE:

Once the site been finalized the researcher obtained a written permission from the Sarpanch in Moradabad district. The samples were selected and clear information was determinate to the study participants to get on informed consent. Once the samples have given their consent pre-test was conducted on 29/01/2015 and the same day the researcher provided the stricture teaching programme. After 15 day i.e. on 13/02/2015 post- test was conducted. 60 parents of school going children were included in study. Parents were explained about the purpose of the study. Non Probability Purposive sampling technique was used.

Group	Pre-test	Intervention	Post test
Experimental Group	0₁	X	0₂

Key:

0_{1 =}Pre –test –For assessing the knowledge, structured questionnaire used.

X= Structured intervention- consisting of teaching regarding healthy eating habits by using structured teaching programme.

0_{2 =}Post- test for assessing the knowledge, structured questionnaire was used.

RESULTS:

Around 17% parents belong to age group of 20 25 years, 47% to 26-30 years, 25% to 31-35 years and 11% from 35 and above.

According to the distribution of samples based on their gender male and female. Sample participated maximum with the percentage of 77% females while only 23% of males cooperated in this study.

According to types of family 57% nuclear and 43% are belongs from joint family.

According to parent’s occupation around 75% house wife, 3.33% govt. job, 18.34% Private Job and others 3.33%.

According to the economic status around 20% of samples were poor, while approximately 73% were middle and 6.66% of samples from upper class.

The study resolved that 32% of samples were vegetarian while other 68% of samples were non-vegetarian.Conclusively 77% of samples belong to Hindu, 16% to Muslim, 7% Christian while none from the other religion in the study. The highest sample percentage i.e. belonged to Hindu religion.

The study resolved that 10% samples were illiterate,40% with primary education, 20% secondary education,18% high school,9 higher secondary and 3% samples are graduate and above. It was interpreted that 53% of samples had only one child, around 47% with two and more children in family. It was interpreted that 53% of samples had only one child, around 47% with two and more children in family. According to types of family 57% nuclear and 43% are belongs from joint family. According to parent’s occupation around 75% house wife, 3.33% govt. job, 18.34% Private Job and others 3.33%.According to the economic status around 20% of samples were poor, while approximately 73% were middle and 6.66% of samples from upper class.The study resolved that 32% of samples were vegetarian while other 68% of samples were non-vegetarian.

CONCLUSION:

The study found that parents of school going children in the age group 26-30 year, gender of parents female, Hindu religion, primary education, no. of children in the family only one, types of family nuclear, parents occupation house wife, economic status middle and food pattern non- vegetarian were majority of this study.

The main conclusion of the study confirms the effectiveness of the structured teaching programme (in term of knowledge) regarding healthy eating habits among the parents of school going children. The study finding expressed that most of the parents of school going children had moderate and inadequate knowledge in pre-test. After giving structured teaching programme majority of the parents of school going children had adequate knowledge regarding healthy eating habits.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

· The same study can be conducted in different institution.

· The study can be done in large samples.

· Different teaching strategies can be used to educate the parents.

· The study can be conducted among the different age group of children.

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Received on 12.11.2016 Modified on 23.12.2016

Asian J. Nur. Edu. and Research.2017; 7(4): 499-501.

DOI:10.5958/2349-2996.2017.00097.0