NCT05894174

The Effect of Board Game-Based Nutrition Education on Primary School Children

The Effect of Board Game-Based Nutrition Education on Primary School Children's Nutrition Behaviors, Self-Efficacy and Attitudes

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: Istanbul Kent University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 9 Years – 11 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study to design a board game that will enable primary school children to recognize foods by enabling them to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy foods by going beyond the traditional education patterns and to compare the effects of this board game-based nutrition education intervention on children's behaviors, self-efficacy, and attitudes with the control group in which no intervention was made.

Detailed description

Nutrition is an important part of health and development. In particular, the gaining of healthy eating habits in early childhood promotes growth and development and reduces the risk of many non-communicable diseases, especially obesity. In order to create healthy societies in the future, nutrition education is one of the effective methods for developing healthy eating behaviors and raising awareness starting from childhood. Game-based education approaches provide motivation for learning information that is made a part of the game by going beyond traditional education methods. Board games are used in nutrition education by giving children the opportunity to think interactively and make different choices with their immersive stories and designs.

Conditions

• Nutrition Assessment
• Education
• Child Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Board Game	Food Hunter board game intervention, which includes various nutrient cards and question cards and is played with pawns and dice, will be played with children for approximately 4 weeks, one day a week and one session (40 minutes) with the researcher dietitian. By talking about the nutrients in the game on the game cards, children will be able to recognize the nutrients and important points will be emphasized for the participants with the answers to the cards containing various questions about healthy nutrition.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-05-19
• Primary completion: 2023-06-02
• Completion: 2023-06-15
• First posted: 2023-06-08
• Last updated: 2023-06-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)