Nutrition Education Using my Plate Media to Improve Self-efficacy and Parental Support towards Children in Full-day Primary School and Non-Full-day Primary School

Nutrition education approach is one of many ways that can be done to change people behavior, mainly regarding in health. There is still lack of nutrition education towards school children by the school because of human resource, facilities, and financial matters. Nutrition education using MyPlate media can help children to choose nutritious food. Nutrition education were given by attractive counseling using audio-visual and cooking demo based on MyPlate food guide. Balanced meal nutrition education using MyPlate are expected to be internalized inside children’ mind. Participants of this study were 50 students from public and private primary school in Surabaya. Data for this study were gathered using pretest and posttest. Pretest was given before and posttest was given after nutrition education process in order to evaluate the result. To compute the data ANOVA statistical test was used. The use of ANOVA statistical test revealed that after nutrition education, students’ knowledge towards MyPlate concept significantly increase in each food group: main food (p-value=0.004), vegetable (p-value=0.002), and water (p-value<0.001). Moreover, nutrition literacy score and literacy about MyPlate also significantly increase with each of it has p-value<0.001. This study showed that there was significant improvement in children literacy about MyPlate food concept before and after nutrition education process has given.