Effect assessment of nutrition education of parents

Objective:Evaluate the effect of nutrition education on the nutrition knowledge of parents and dietary behavior of students,try to provide scientific evidence for nutrition education.Methods:To choose some students and their parents in Wuzhong of Ningxia and divide them into exp-group and control-group.The exp-group had had one-year nutrition lessons.Then the differences between before and after intervene was studied by questionnaire survey.Results:After nutrition lessons,the awareness of exp-group raised to 79.6% from 65.8%(P0.01),the knowledge of Diet pagoda and Vk,Calcium,iron improved a lot;the dietary behavior of students also changed,more of them began to have milk,eggs,vegetables,the rates raised to 60.2%,44.6%,83.1%(P0.01),the less people had pickled fried food,the rates had decreased to 32.2%,10.5%(P0.05).Conclusion:The nutrition intervention in both school and family is effective and feasible.