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Nutrition education for parents of preschool children
MUSILOVÁ, Iveta
This Bachelor's Thesis is focused on parent's education in a field of preschool children diet. There are two main aims. First and main aim is to find out how well are parent's informed about children diet. Second aim was to contact parent's and ask if they would be interested in courses, which would teach them about right dietary habits. A practical aim was to organize a special course focused on improving a parent's knowledge about healthy children diet. Discovered information can be subsequently used and improve a general knowledge about healthy children diet. Therefore it can have an positive effect on preschool children's diet. The main investigating question was set as follows: "How to educate parents in a field of children diet with highest efficiency?" Other researching questions are following: "How was organized a parent's education courses about a children's diet so far?", "How well informed are parent's so far? " and "How is a parent's interest regarding educational courses about healthy dietary habits in preschool children?" Theoretical part of Bachelor's Thesis is focused on right diet of preschool children and their parent's education in this field. There is a short description of preschool age group and its characteristic features. Main category summaries dietary problems, daily fluid intake, importance of proteins, fat, saccharides, vitamins, minerals and micronutrients. Another topic, which is discussed,is dietary recommendations, which are completed in healthy thirteen by Dietary Association. It improves an orientation in basic rules of healthy diet. I was also interested in healthy risks, which are connected with unhealthy diet in children. First of all I was focused on children obesity, because there is an alarming increase in a rate of an obese children nowadays. My research was focused on causes of obesity, prevention, treatment and consequences. Another subsequent results of improper diet are malnutrition, food allergies and dehydration. In a second category of theoretical part I investigated how is anparent's education in an area of healthy, proper diet of preschool children. I described education as a concept, learning process and its phases. In the investigation part of this thesis was used a method of qualitative research, which was divided into three main parts. In the first part was used a structured interview. It was composed of 7 questions based on parent's knowledge in an area of healthy diet of preschool children. First plan was to ask 10 respondents, however at 8th interview was research formula fulfilled. According to result of 9th interview was clear that another interviews would not enrich the research with new or valuable information. Therefore interviews were finished. In the second phase were used information from interviews and an educational course focused on healthy diet in preschool children was organized. The course was composed of five lessons in total three were focused on parent's education, another lesson was focused on children themselves. Last meeting was based on cooperation of parents and children in an activities connected with diet. The third phase was focused on a realisation of courses mentioned before. Effectiveness of course was checked with help of subsequent structural interview with four questions about changes, which occurredafter attending the education course mentioned before. One of the questions was also asking if the parent's are interested in another education courses and more information about children diet.
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