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1. Narrative Summary
During this year of the project, we initiated a controlled intervention study of school children in Yuelu District schools in order to verify our observational findings that nutrition education plays a key role in the nutrition knowledge, attitude and dietary behavior of children. In order to clarify the effects of the nutrition program we initiated a set of nutritional interventions through weekly nutrition class teaching. This year's accomplishments included setting up a series of nutrition classes for the intervention group schools; establishment of a data management system; project staff and volunteer’s recruitment and training; one year follow up studies to evaluate the effect of the nutrition education classes. These activities have gone fairly smoothly.
1.1 Field Operation
A project group was established in June, 2007. Professionals in Xiangya public health school, postgraduate students of central south university and teachers in two primary schools are the research staff.
PI: Professor Shuiyuan Xiao, the dean of Xiangya public health school.
Director: Dr. Qian Lin, research field: nutrition science
Main research staff:
Dr. Jing Deng, research field: epidemiology
Dr. Jingcheng Shi, research field: statistics
Dr. Marita Holl, research field: nutrition
Control group (n=145): 114 students in Xiangyi school (city)
34 students in Xuehu School (countryside)
Intervention group (n=148)£º112 students in the 1st Wangyuehu school (city)
33 students in Gufeng School (countryside)
The two intervention schools provided classrooms equipped with computers and projectors for nutrition education. |
Nutrition Program
frequency questionnaires) and one week dietary intake record were investigated in the two classes. It was found that the teacher involvement was the main factor that influence the students interests in nutrition science study. Teacher Su gave us a lot help in our classes. She told us the students became more active and more interested in outdoor activities after our "nutrition and excersices" classes. 
was low and some of them could not understand or would not accept the nutrition knowledge that the students told them.