Mahnaz Hemati, Mehdi Akbartabar Toori, Mohsen Shams, Afsaneh Behroozpour,
Volume 17, Issue 5 (10-2018)
Abstract
Objective (s): Lack of attention to nutrition and having non-healthy nutritional habits, is one of the influencing factors for non-communicable diseases. In recent years, nutritional literacy, as a abilities to access, understand, appraise, and apply necessary information to make decision related to healthy nutrition, is considered to be a very important health-related issue. This study aimed to investigate the effect of an educational intervention on nutritional literacy of elementary school teachers in Yasuj, Iran.
Methods: In this quasi-experimental study, 110 teachers of the elementary schools in Yasuj, who were randomly selected in two areas of the city (intervention and control group) were included in the study. Nutritional literacy was measured by using a validated tool for Iranian society, and after analyzing the data, the educational content and structure were developed to improve the nutritional literacy. Intervention consisted of two training sessions, sending two SMS and providing educational pamphlets. Data were analyzed before and three months after the intervention by using Spss16 software.
Results: There was a significant difference in terms of nutritional literacy, reading comprehension, food units (P<0.001), nutritional knowledge (P=0.001), computational literacy (P =0.034) and nutrition label (P=0.005) before and after the intervention among intervention group. The difference between the mean score of nutritional literacy in the two groups also was significant.
Conclusion: The results indicaterd that the educational intervention was useful in increasing nutritional health literacy among primary school teachers.
Mina Maheri, Maryam Bidar, Dr Hamidreza Farrokh-Eslamlou, Ali Sadaghianifar,
Volume 24, Issue 4 (8-2025)
Abstract
Objective(s): Assessing mothers’ nutritional literacy and its related factors will help to design and implement interventions to improving mothers’ nutritional literacy according to their needs. Therefore, the current study was conducted to examine the nutritional literacy and its related factors among the mothers of under 5-years old children.
Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 405 mothers of under 5-years old children in Urmia, Iran. A multi-stage cluster sampling method was used. The questionnaire used included two parts. The first part included items on demographic information and the second part was the Evaluation Instrument of Nutrition Literacy on Adults. Data were analyzed using SPSS, and the results were considered significant at a statistical level (p<0.05).
Results: The mean of nutritional literacy score was 25.86±4.60. The lowest mean score was related to dimension of read food labels and ability to do simple calculations. 73.10% of mothers demonstrated adequate nutrition literacy, while 26.90% exhibited insufficient nutrition literacy. There was a statistically significant relationship between nutritional literacy and the variables of educational level (p<0.001), family income (p<0.001), and age (r=0.19, p<0.001).
Conclusion: The nutritional literacy of the majority of the mothers was at an adequate level. To improve the nutritional literacy of mothers, it is necessary to pay more attention to dimension of read food labels and do simple nutritional calculations.
