The KAP Nutrition Education Program

I. Introduction
A special program was designed to improve knowledge, attitudes, and practice (KAP) regarding nutrition. The control group was comprised of a sample of 10 males who received the standard nutrition education program. The experimental group consisted of a sample of 10 males who received the KAP nutrition education program. For each program, the participants received 45 minutes of instruction twice a week for 15 weeks. All participants completed a pre-test and post-test to assess their current knowledge, attitudes, and practices. Both the control group and the experimental group completed a pretest questionnaire that included descriptors, with the purpose of capturing the subjects KAP towards nutrition. Five weeks concluding the program, both the control group and experimental group completed a posttest questionnaire that excluded descriptors. The questionnaires contained five questions regarding knowledge, four questions regarding attitude, and three questions regarding current practices of nutrition. Three components were being measured, total knowledge score, total attitude score, and total practice score. Coding was used to evaluate the questionnaires for the pretest and posttest data, and then put into data sheets. Numbers ranged from zero to 99 and were …show more content…
To find the difference between the attitudes of nutrition between the experimental and control group, the total attitude scores of the pretest and posttest was used as a variable. Attitude pretest and posttest scores were coded between the four attitude questions. The four attitude questions were based off of a five-point liker scale ranging from strongly agree to strongly disagree. After the four questions were coded with numbers one through five, the coded numbers were put into a mean total attitude score. The total attitude score was used to test the