title: The effect of nutrition education on dietary habits on fifth-graders.
abstract: Two fifth-grade classes of 45 students, a majority in the Mexican-American culture, participated in the five month study. One group was taught a series of eight nutrition education units emphasizing weight control while the other group received no nutrition instruction. Pretests and posttests were given to each group and a 24-hour dietary recall was obtained. Findings from the written pretest and posttest showed that the group receiving nutrition instruction learned a significantly (p less than .01) greater number of nutrition concepts than the control group. Dietary intakes revealed that the diets of the experimental group did not improve after nutrition instruction. A majority of postdietary intakes met less than 50% of the RDA.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico / Q000208:ethnology; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D009765:Obesity / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014481:United States