The Effect of Nutrition Education For Mothers on Eating Awareness, Children Feeding Behaviors and Anthropometric Measurements: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

İngilizce (OpenAlex)

This pretest-posttest randomized controlled, pilot study was conducted to determine the effect of feeding education for mothers on eating awareness, child nutrition behaviors and anthropometric measurements. It was conducted with 24 mothers with three to six-year-old children attending a public kindergarten. An eight-week education consisting of eight sessions on mother and child feeding was given to mothers in the intervention group. The data were collected using the Information Form, the Eating Awareness Scale, and the Behavioral Pediatric Feeding Assessment Scale and performing anthropometric measurements. After the education program, the eating awareness mean score of the mothers in the intervention group was higher than the control group; however, the increase was not statistically significant (p> 0.05). Prior to the education, the mean behavioral pediatric feeding assessment scale score of the intervention group was higher than that of the control group (p>0.05). There was no significant difference in Body Mass Index (BMI) of the mothers in the intervention and control groups (p> 0.05). In line with the results obtained from this pilot study, it is recommended to increase the effectiveness of education by integrating programs containing web-based, game-supported applications into education as well as nutrition education.