The effectiveness of lanna smart child program for self-care behaviors of obesity secondary school students

10.30207/AHLA.202312.0028

Ploynate Chananantpojchaniti；Jarasphan Arunkaew；Pornpisoot Sripramai；Chemjira Korampai；Oraphan Poolsawad；Pakasinee Kawee；Pirin Chearntong

lanna smart child program ； obesity ； self-care behaviors ； students

The Proceeding of the 9th AHLA International Health Literacy Conference: Health Literacy and Social Resilience

2023（2023 / 12 / 01）

30 - 30

英文

Background: School-age children with obesity are rapidly increasing and the epidemic is speading around the world, and it is a public health challenge in the 21stcentury that must resolved urgently in many countries. Objectives: The effectiveness of the lanna smart child program on body weight reduction, Physical fitness and self-care behaviors of obese students. Method: Quasi-experimental for two group, pre-and post-test design. The samples were obese students in 2 schools under the Chiangmai provincial Secondary Education Service Area Office. Calculate the sample size using G* Power sofeware package. A sample size group of 70 people was divided into the experimental and control groups each of 35 people. The experimental group received an 8-weeks the lanna smart child program that applied health behaviors modification guidelines during December 2020 to July 2021. The tool used were the lanna smart child program, physical fitness test and health behavior assessment form. Data were analyzed by descriptive and t-test statistical. Results: Showed that after receiving program, the experimental group had a lower weight than before receiving program with a statistical significance (p = 0.01), physical fitness and self-care behaviors (health literacy) higher than before receiving program with a statistical significance (p < 0.01). When comparing between the experimental group and the control group, found that after received the experimental group had lower weight than the control group (p < 0.01), had physical fitness higher than the control group (p= 0.02) and had self-care behaviors higher than the control group (p< 0.01) Conclusion: The lanna smart child program can make the junior high school students lose weight, Improved physical fitness and self-care behaviors. Suggest that educational institutions where students have obese can use this lanna smart child program to control and prevention of obesity in students.