Nutrition Education Program in Nigeria
FINDINGS
Overview
This study eval
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This study evaluated a researcher-designed nutrition education program developed for use with a sample of already pregnant Nigerian females. The conducted evaluation compared a group of expectant mothers exposed to the program (experimental group) to a group of expectant mothers not exposed to the program (control group) in order to determine whether the designed program: (1) elevated the birth weight of infants; (2) improved mothers' eating habits; (3) improved mothers' health beliefs; and (4) lowered the rate of infant mortality. All of the expectant mothers serving as sample subjects were drawn from the Onikan Health Clinic located in Nigeria. The findings observed for all analyses performed on collected data are presented in this chapter of the study. To provide background context to the conducted analyses, the chapter also presents a brief description of the Onikan Health Center as a well as demographic profile of the two groups of expected mothers (experimental and control) and of the sample as a whole. Further, a descriptive analysis of the experimental group's attitudes toward the designed program is also presented. Description of the Onikan Health Center The Onikan Health Center is a moderately sized facility providing public health care to Nigerian mothers living in surrounding townships, cities, and villages. The Center has a staff and administrative complement of 160 people with 10 of these positions being administrati
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These figures were then converted, using procedures specified by Hunt, Murphy, Cleaver, Laine and Clark (1983), to demerit scores with a demerit score of 20 or greater indicating poor eating habits. (Thus, the higher the score, the poorer the eating habits). These demerit scores were then analyzed at three levels of Time (before the program, during the program, and after the program) using the one-way analysis of variance.
The findings observed for this analysis of variance are presented in Table 9. As shown by inspection of this table,
findings were highly significant (F=489.28; df(2,98); p<.0001) with a computed Eta Squared of .94094 indicating that over 88 percent of response variance being accounted for by the Time variable.
Protected t-tests conducted on the observed main effect provided insight into the nature of significant findings. These tests showed that:
(1) Eating habits during the program (Mean = 15.06) were significantly healthier than eating habits were prior to the program (Mean = 24.42) with a t value of 29.22 for df=(1,98), p<.01.
(2) Eating habits following the termination of the program (Mean=16.64) were significantly healthier than they were before the program (Mean=24.42) with a t value of 24.29
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