Effects of nutrition education involving physical activity games on elementary students doing sports activities

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  • SAKATE Seiji
    Faculty of Nutritional Science, Sagami Women's University
  • YANAGISAWA Kae
    Faculty of Nutritional Science, Sagami Women's University
  • KAMIJO Yu
    Ex-Faculty of Nutritional Science, Sagami Women's University

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  • スポーツ活動を行う小学生に対する身体を動かすゲームを取り入れた栄養教育の効果

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Objective: To examine the effects of sports nutrition course that adopts physical activity games on elementary students doing sports players.<br>Project contents: The course implemented lectures about three subjects related to nutrition for elementary school sports players; they are basic meals for athlete, water supplement, and snacks/ supplementary food. This course also used physical activity games to improve their understanding.<br>Project assessment: Participants were 23 children in the 4th to 6th grades. Regarding general dietary knowledge, the percentage of correct answers for the self-administered questionnaire was 22.5 (SD 13.8)％ to 47.7 (SD 11.9)％ before and after the course, respectively (p＜0.001). However, for individual question items, no significant changes were observed in questions about the roles of nutrients, side dish or supplementary food. For nutrients, no significant improvement was observed in any categories including the grade, participation motive, and their goal levels in the future. The percentage of correct answers for questions about snacks/supplementary food was significantly improved from 4.4 (SD 8.8)％ to 28.9 (SD 20.3)％ (p＝0.016) among the 6th-grade students and from 11.1 (SD 17.1)％ to 32.2 (SD 18.3) (p＝0.002) among children who participated based on a positive motivation.<br>Future issues: General knowledge of food was improved among the children of this course. However, a variation was found in their levels of understanding depending on the contents of the learning. The contents of lectures and practical training should be modified and improved especially for nutrient and snacks/ supplementary food.

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