Evaluation of Nutrition Education Program among Selected Participants of BAN-HRDB

Abstract

This is a descriptive cross sectional study, which was carried out considering both
secondary and primary data. The study population include participants from various
professions like Block Supervisors, Teachers, Imams, NGO workers, Ansar/VDP
members, UP members and Housewives who participated in the Nutrition Education
Program (NEP) by Bangladesh Applied Nutrition and Human Resource Development
Board (BAN-HRDB) with the idea that they would eventually disseminate knowledge to
the grass root level population and motivate them for better nutritional status. A total of
2000 participants were taken for evaluating their performance in both pre and post-test
conducted by BAN-HRDB. A marked difference was observed among participants after
the NEP. The mean score of nutritional knowledge before the NEP among the
participants was 51.62%, which increased to 84.45% after the NEP that seems highly
significant at 0.005% level. Professional variations were also observed on the score.
Block Supervisors and teachers secured better nutritional score than the other
professionals. The mean score among the Block Supervisors was 53.59% before the
NEP, which increased to 86.97% after the NEP. The results of the study revealed that
training on nutrition are very encouraging and useful for improvement of nutritional
knowledge.