Open AccessInfluence of an educational strategy to promote the use of regional food
Author(s) -
Mariana Cavalcante Martins,
Ádria Marcela Vieira Ferreira,
Ludmila Alves do Nascimento,
Julliana dos Santos Aires,
Paulo César de Almeida,
Lorena Barbosa Ximenes
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
rev rene
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2175-6783
pISSN - 1517-3852
DOI - 10.15253/2175-6783.2015000200014
Subject(s) - promotion (chess) , intervention (counseling) , family health , food security , psychology , questionnaire , medicine , medical education , environmental health , nursing , geography , political science , sociology , agriculture , social science , politics , law , archaeology
Objective: to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of family members of preschool children about regional food,through a survey before and after an educational intervention. Methods: this is a pre-experimental one-group pretest–posttest study, with 62 family members of preschool children. One month before and after the conduction of an educationalactivity using the flipchart “regional food promoting food security”, one applied the survey. Results: it was found that after theeducational strategy, there was an increase in the classification “appropriate” in each survey area about regional food, and thevariation of knowledge (17.7%-77.4%), attitude (21%-72.6%) and practice (14.5%-64.5%), consequently, an improvementof 59.7% in knowledge, 51.6% in attitude and 50% in practice. Conclusion: the use of educational technology had a positiveinfluence on the knowledge, attitudes and practice of family members, contributing thus to the health promotion of childrenand their family members.