| Annual Report 2007, Chia Community Outreach Program,"Eating Healthily, Living Healthily" |
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| Administrator Sunday, 28 September 2008 | |
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Page 1 of 11 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. 1.2 Recruitment
Recruitment and training of field personnel and professional and scientific staff have been extensive. Field personnel are postgraduate students and undergraduate students, some of whom previously worked in some community health studies. Two postgraduates were recruited to be the partner teachers in the nutrition classes. Some volunteers were trained before they participated in the program.
1.3 Field Activities
The definitive sample of 29 schools and 1730 children and their households have been enrolled. The teachers in these schools were also involved in the program. Four schools were chosen from bottom 5%, ranked by nutrition knowledge score, and assigned to one control group and one intervention group. Each group included one city school and one countryside school. The following validation studies were undertaken:
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