Individual Paper

10. Healing Bodies: Medicine, Well-being, Sport

Session Name: Educating Young People on Nutrition: Indonesian Interventions and Their Effects

Effectiveness of Balanced Nutrition Breakfast Education Based on Theory of Planned Behavior in School Children

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

11:15 – 13:00 (GMT+7)

Paper Abstract: The habit of eating breakfast is one of the important guidelines for balanced nutrition, especially for school children, because it increases blood sugar levels as the brain's main energy source, thereby optimizing learning. However, as many as 59% of school-aged teenagers in Indonesia still do not have the habit of eating breakfast. Nutrition education is very necessary for improving breakfast habits in school children. One of the theories most widely used in health research is the theory of planned behavior because it can shape behavior without coercion.

This research was a quasi-experimental study at SMP Hang Tuah 1 Surabaya with a total sample of 48 students based on cluster random sampling. Data collection used questionnaires on identity, knowledge, attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, breakfast, and 2x24-hour food recall. Data analysis was carried out using the Independent T-test.

Based on research results, balanced nutritional breakfast education based on the theory of planned behavior can significantly increase knowledge (p< 0.001), attitudes (p< 0.001), subjective norms (p< 0.001), perceived behavioral control (p< 0.001) and intentions (p< 0.001) towards a balanced nutritious breakfast, but not significant towards the habitual behavior of a balanced nutritious breakfast (p=0.317).

Providing balanced nutritional breakfast education based on the theory of planned behavior can influence knowledge, attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and intentions, but has no impact on balanced nutritional breakfast habits. Therefore, continuous intervention is needed in the form of nutrition education with innovative methods, media and intervention designs to change behavior.

Presenter(s)

WN

Wadi'ah H. Nurramadhani
Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia

Co-Author(s)

FP

Fiska A. Paramudhita
Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia
TM

Trias Mahmudiono
Center for Health and Nutrition Education, Counseling, and Empowerment, Indonesia