2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Development and evaluation of nutrition education program using experimental learning to improve unhealthy breakfast behaviors in young adult females

Research Project

Project/Area Number	24650502
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Eating habits, studies on eating habits
Research Institution	Jumonji University
Principal Investigator	KUMIKO Inoue 十文字学園女子大学, 人間生活学部, 准教授 (90224360)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	KIMURA Yasuko 十文字学園女子大学, 人間生活学部, 准教授 (60248995)
Project Period (FY)	2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31
Keywords	体験型栄養教育介入プログラム / 朝食提供 / 朝食欠食 / 偏食 / 精神的不定愁訴
Research Abstract	The purpose of this study was to improve the habit of skipping breakfast or having only Japanese buns, pastries, and desserts for breakfast in collegiate females. We evaluated the effects of the nutrition education program which 1)motivated the participants based on awareness of their peculiar eating behavior using visual records of their meals 2)made them experience physical and mental changes when being fed usual breakfast for 2 weeks. As a result of offering breakfast which were made with efforts to use less time, cost, and skill, the stages in Transtheoretical model developed, eating behaviors changed, and mental unspecific symptoms decreased remarkably. Therefore, instruction of such nutrition education program using experimental learning has the potential to improve unhealthy breakfast behaviors.