برنامج تعليمي توعوي لرفع معدل التحصيل الدراسي الناتج عن سوء التغذية لدي تلاميذ المرحلة الابتدائية بمحافظة طريف بالمملكة العربية السعودية

Abstract EN

Poor nutrition with its signs and sequences has become the disease of the modern age.

The world has witnessed a spread of fast readymade meals, coloured food, soft drinks and foods which depend on taste only as a means to attract all consumers and particularly children.

Pupils are considered a group mostly suffer from the problems of poor nutrition and its serious sequences which are represented by emaciation, anemia, schooling deterioration, decrease of concentration and pupils' paying of less attention to their lessons.

The researcher notices the signs of poor nutrition on the faces of the pupils of the primary schools at Al-Tareef governorate which has pushed him to tackle such a subject as a consequence of his work in the domain of education.

In the current study, a special pedagogical programme for the pupils of primary school has been applied where that programme and its efficiency have been tested upon 200 pupils (whose ages are between 6-12 years) who suffer from poor nutrition which in return has led to their schooling deterioration and their bad academic average.

The efficiency of this programme has been evaluated by following the academic average of the pupils weekly along (six sequential weeks) which is the period for applying of the prepared pedagogical programme.

The results and statistics of the current study have shown the efficiency of the pedagogical programme for the pupils as a medium of rising their awareness and instructing them about the importance of essential food and the food elements for building healthy body as well as mind.

Besides, this programme directs those pupils theoretically and practically to the appropriate nutrition behaviours, ways of cleaning the consumed foods and washing their hands before having their meals and further issues which have been applied on the pupils with the aid of their teachers along with their instructions.

The application of this programme led to the rising of the pupils' academic average and improving the level of the meant pupils (average 1) by a percentage reaches to (94.5%), and reaching about 9.5 % to the highest academic average (average 4).

The previously mentioned percentages have been reached after the application of this programme for six weeks.

Therefore, the current study advises organizations and societies for applying special programmes for poor nutrition in order to increase the cultural and healthy awareness among pupils and their families as well and particularly schools, universities and pedagogical institutions.