This paper should be about Research plan investigating the effect of nutrition education programs in improving dietary habits among school children in Oman.
Introduction:
Unhealthy diet is the most common risk factor for health problems such as obesity and chronic disease such as diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases, I AD, and cancer which are now increasingly beginning in the childhood all over the world including developed and developing countries.
Oman is one of the countries that currently facing a health crisis of major proportions especially diet related diseases. Despite some efforts by Oman government to improve the dietary habits of the population ( people in ALBuraimi region ), many chronic diseases due to unhealthy dietary habits are still a major public health problems in this country (region ) particularly among schoolchildren which are also associated with decreased school performance. Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS) in Oman in2010/2005 showed that 19.5% of Omani students from grades 17th to 10th were overweight, 31.5%of them were underweight, 33.4% of students drink carbonated drinks and only 29.3% of students ate fruits and vegetables five times per day. Therefore new strategies should be implemented in school which helps to improve the dietary habits of school children and consequently prevent chronic diseases which are directly related to unhealthy diets.
Research question :
Is nutrition education program a Promising Intervention in promoting healthy dietary habits among school children? Or Is the nutrition education programs effective in improving dietary habits among school children?
Study design:
A randomized,-controlled trial will be conducted on grade 10th students aged (14-16) in secondary schools students in ALBuraimi Governorate in Oman to investigate the effects of comprehensive nutrition education programs on improving dietary habits among school children aged (14-16) in grade 10th .
We have total of 39 schools in in ALBuraimi region in Oman and 16 schools of them having having grade 10th students .
Total number of students in grade 10th in ALBuraimi Governorate are 918 ( 481 are M and 437 are F ) . So our population for study are grade 10th students about 918 students.
So our sampling will be in two stage first of all we choose all school having students in grade 10th students ,then next stage is choosing all students having abnormal body weight either overweight and underweight with Iron deficiency anemia and unhealthy dietary habits based on questioners and anthropometrics measurements of students from students health records from ministry of health in Oman.
After sampling the chosen schools will be divided in two one with control group of students with out any nutrition education programs and the other school with students having intervention of comprehensive nutrition education programs .The type of nutrition education programs and the period which is involved to implement these programs depend on your literature review or systematic review and see the evidence from other studies with randomized control trial used comprehensive nutrition education programs among secondary school students and the programs was successful based on facts and evidences from other studies in other countries in the world and the period that took to show the effective or positive result in changing dietary habits of school children or promoting healthy dietary habits also the sample size all depends on evidences from other study so you can decide the time for how long I can apply these programs among school children in Oman to see the positive impacts of comprehensive nutrition education programs on improving dietary habits among 10th grade students in ALBuraimi governorate in Oman .The effect of intervention will be seen after a period of time that you will decide it according to your evidence from other studies and the effect will be measured by doing post anthropometrics measurements ( measuring height and weight to see BMI) of all students who participated in study to see the changes in their body weight after having nutrition education programs and by questioners about dietary habits from students health records. Also we do these measurements for students who participated in study but without any intervention (control group) and we compare both of them .
This is some links about Oman Global School-based Student Health Survey in 2010/2005
https://www.who.int/chp/gshs/Oman_GSHS_Country_Report.pdf
https://www.who.int/chp/gshs/2010_Country_Report_OMAN_GSHS_EN.pdf
https://www.cdc.gov/gshs/countries/eastmediter/oman.htm
also this is a link about ALBuraimi governorate in Oman:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Buraimi_Governorate
you can use these link to write some facts and percentages of some dietary problems among school children and also to write about ALBuraimi governorate (my study area)
I will attach the report of Oman Global School-based Student Health Survey in 2010/2005 and I will attach the student health record for male and female which will be used to collect the data about students who participated in study to see the effects of the intervention also I will attach the guideline for this research plan.
Please follow what is mentioned in instructions and also see carefully and follow what is mentioned in assignmnet guidelines given by course coordinators which i will attach it.
Please write in scientific way and avoid any spealing or unclear words and we need originality 100% we not allowed to copy
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