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Background <p>Malnutrition in children is associated with cognitive delays, learning disorders, and disturbances in growth indicators. Inadequate food intake, bad eating habits, lack of nutritional knowledge, low mother’s education, and poor economic status are among the causes of malnutrition. School children are more at risk of inappropriate eating behaviors, skipping breakfast, consuming unhealthy snacks, and low physical activity. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of nutritional education on improving growth indicators, knowledge, attitudes, and food intake.</p> Methods <p>This parallel-arm, open-label, randomized clinical trial study will be conducted on 254 children aged 7 to 12 with malnutrition, who will be randomly divided into intervention and control groups. Nutrition education will be conducted during 8&#xa0;weeks of intervention, and each session will last 45 to 60&#xa0;min. However, the control group will not receive any education. Weight for age, height for age, BMI for age, food intake, and PRECEDE questionnaire items will be accessed before the intervention, 1&#xa0;month later, and 3&#xa0;months after the intervention. The PRECEDE questionnaire prioritizes educational needs and includes specific subscales: predisposing factors (knowledge, attitude, self-efficacy), reinforcing factors, enabling factors, and behavioral assessment. We will analyze the data based on the intention-to-treat protocol. Also, linear regression will be conducted to determine the effect of the intervention on the outcomes after adjustment for the confounding factors.</p> Discussion <p>Primary school children are at a special age to improve their eating habits, so they are a suitable target for nutrition education interventions to prevent and treat malnutrition. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to determine whether nutrition education can be effective in improving growth indicators and food intake. The results of this intervention can create a new perspective to reduce the prevalence of malnutrition and improve the symptoms caused by it.</p> Trial registration <p>IRCT20181111041611N7. Registered on&#xa0; 2023-07-25. <a href="https://www.irct.ir/trial/67548">https://www.irct.ir/trial/67548</a>.</p>

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Effect of nutritional education based on the precede-proceed model on improving the growth indicators, knowledge, attitude, and food intake of malnourished children: study protocol for a randomized clinical trial

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    2025年11月17日

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  • Fatemeh Maleki,
  • Amir Bagheri,
  • Shahab Rezaeian,
  • Fatemeh Rajati,
  • Mahmoud Ghasemi,
  • Mehnoosh Samadi

摘要

Background

Malnutrition in children is associated with cognitive delays, learning disorders, and disturbances in growth indicators. Inadequate food intake, bad eating habits, lack of nutritional knowledge, low mother’s education, and poor economic status are among the causes of malnutrition. School children are more at risk of inappropriate eating behaviors, skipping breakfast, consuming unhealthy snacks, and low physical activity. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of nutritional education on improving growth indicators, knowledge, attitudes, and food intake.

Methods

This parallel-arm, open-label, randomized clinical trial study will be conducted on 254 children aged 7 to 12 with malnutrition, who will be randomly divided into intervention and control groups. Nutrition education will be conducted during 8 weeks of intervention, and each session will last 45 to 60 min. However, the control group will not receive any education. Weight for age, height for age, BMI for age, food intake, and PRECEDE questionnaire items will be accessed before the intervention, 1 month later, and 3 months after the intervention. The PRECEDE questionnaire prioritizes educational needs and includes specific subscales: predisposing factors (knowledge, attitude, self-efficacy), reinforcing factors, enabling factors, and behavioral assessment. We will analyze the data based on the intention-to-treat protocol. Also, linear regression will be conducted to determine the effect of the intervention on the outcomes after adjustment for the confounding factors.

Discussion

Primary school children are at a special age to improve their eating habits, so they are a suitable target for nutrition education interventions to prevent and treat malnutrition. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to determine whether nutrition education can be effective in improving growth indicators and food intake. The results of this intervention can create a new perspective to reduce the prevalence of malnutrition and improve the symptoms caused by it.

Trial registration

IRCT20181111041611N7. Registered on  2023-07-25. https://www.irct.ir/trial/67548.