Comparison of the effects of video mediated nutrition education and traditional nutrition education on nutrition knowledge level in adolescents

Inadequate and poor eating habits during adolescence may cause osteoporosis, diabetes, obesity, delay in sexual development, cardiovascular diseases and some organ cancers in the later years. In order to make adolescents be able to choose healthy foods and develop appropriate nutritional behaviours regarding recommendations interventions should be organized and should be addressed with school programmes. This study aims to compare the effects of video mediated nutrition education with traditional nutrition education on nutrition knowledge level in adolescents. This study was conducted with 72 adolescents. Intervention group was consisted of 13 female students, 23 male students, while the control group consisted of 18 female students and 18 male students. Adolescent Nutrition Knowledge Questionnaire(ANKQ, ABBID) scale was used to determine nutritional knowledge. Intervention group watched a video taken at supermarket while control group was educated with slidesand verbally by the researcher. Pre-test and post-tests were conducted before and after the trainings. According to the results, both of the interventionssignificantly increased the nutritional knowledge level (p <0.05). However, the difference between groups were not statistically significant (p>0.05). Organizing nutritional education activities and including courses in the curriculum and dealing with them with effective education methods enable adolescents to choose healthy foods and develop appropriate nutrition behaviors.