School-based health education on healthy diet KAP intervention among students' parents in Cangzhou

Objective To evaluate a school-based health education intervention on healthy diet among students' parents,and to provide basis for education sectors and health care institutions.Methods Primary parents of students from grade 2 to grade 4 in 8 primary schools of Cangzhou were recruited and selected by stratified and cluster sampling.Parents were randomly divided into intervention and control group.Multimodal and highly interactive intervention through social media was implemented among intervention group including school newspaper,WeChat official account admin platform and WeChat group,while no intervention for the control group.Before and after intervention,questionnaire survey was delivered to evaluate healthy diet knowledge,attitude and practice among two groups.Results After intervention,healthy diet knowledge,attitude and practice scores in intervention group (9.23±3.16,4.02± 1.44,22.67-±3.97) were significantly higher than those in control group(9.72±2.86,4.21± 1.30,23.23±3.37) (P<0.05).The rates of breakfast skip,snacks,fried and processed food consumption among intervention group decreased from 20.74%,39.96%,39.30%,51.53% to 15.52%,32.82%,29.71%,43.90%(P<0.05).Conclusion Parents of primary students in Cangzhou generally have low awareness of healthy diet knowledge,and attitude and practice towards healthy diet remains to be improved.School-based intervention with family as unit has promising effects improving healthy diet knowledge,attitude and practices among those population.