The Effect of Board Game-Based Nutrition Education on Primary School Children

The Effect of Board Game-Based Nutrition Education on Primary School Children's Nutrition Behaviors, Self-Efficacy and Attitudes

The purpose of this study to design a board game that will enable primary school children to recognize foods by enabling them to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy foods by going beyond the traditional education patterns and to compare the effects of this board game-based nutrition education intervention on children's behaviors, self-efficacy, and attitudes with the control group in which no intervention was made.

Nutrition is an important part of health and development. In particular, the gaining of healthy eating habits in early childhood promotes growth and development and reduces the risk of many non-communicable diseases, especially obesity. In order to create healthy societies in the future, nutrition education is one of the effective methods for developing healthy eating behaviors and raising awareness starting from childhood. Game-based education approaches provide motivation for learning information that is made a part of the game by going beyond traditional education methods. Board games are used in nutrition education by giving children the opportunity to think interactively and make different choices with their immersive stories and designs.

Inclusion Criteria:

• In the 3 schools where the study will be carried out
• 4th grade student
• Does not have any physical disability related to vision, hearing and speech
• Without any chronic or metabolic disease

Exclusion Criteria:

• Having any chronic or metabolic disease
• Can't read and write