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- Title
Eficacia de una intervención educativa escolar para la prevención de la obesidad infantil.
- Authors
García Hernández, María Noelia; Besana Danieles, Rosejoenne Nicole
- Abstract
Introduction. The prevalence of childhood obesity has increased considerably since 2000, acquiring the dimension of an epidemic, with 5.9% of children under 5 years of age being overweight. Modifiable causative factors include lifestyle, sleep, diet and physical activity. The objective is to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational intervention in a school environment to modify the habits of children aged 6-12 years in 3 areas, diet, physical activity and screen time. Methodology. The sample is 540 children, in primary education stage distributed, in three groups: a) diet and screen time intervention, b) physical activity and screen time and c) diet, physical activity and screen time. The educational intervention includes contents of the plate method, food pyramid and exercise based on the Canadian physical activity guide for children aged 5 to 11 years. Age variables and anthropometric measurements are collected. In instrumentation, the KIDMED Test (diet adherence), "IPAQ-A" Questionnaire (physical activity), and screen time questionnaire (use of electronic devices) are considered. Data collection is carried out pre-intervention, post-intervention and one month after the end of the intervention. The analysis considers descriptive statistics for the distribution and values of the quantitative and qualitative variables and analytical statistics for the analysis of the effectiveness of the intervention as appropriate to the type of variables such as Student's t test, ANOVA, Chi square, Pearson correlation. The data will be analyzed with the SPSS statistical system.
- Subjects
CANADA; PEARSON correlation (Statistics); SCHOOL environment; QUALITATIVE research; T-test (Statistics); EDUCATIONAL outcomes; NURSING schools; NURSING education; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; QUANTITATIVE research; CHI-squared test; BEHAVIOR; SCREEN time; PRE-tests &; post-tests; ANALYSIS of variance; CHILDHOOD obesity; DATA analysis software; ANTHROPOMETRY; DIET; PHYSICAL activity
- Publication
Nure Investigación, 2024, Issue 128, p1
- ISSN
1697-218X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.58722/nure.v21i128.2431