Teachers’ Perspective and Confidence Level About Nutrition Education in Boys’ Public High Schools In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

A total of 80 boys’ public high schools were randomly selected from four areas in Riyadh (20 north, 20 south, 20 east, and 20 west). Teachers who taught nutrition in their curriculum were interviewed using a validated questionnaire.

Outcome Measures and Analysis

A chi-square statistical test was run to test the differences between teachers’ perspective and confidence level, and their demographic variables.

Results

Almost all teachers (97.6%) agreed that health education curriculum should be taught as core for high school students in Saudi Arabia. Most of the teachers (88.8%) were interested in teaching about nutrition. However, almost two third of the teachers (63.8%) did not have adequate nutrition curricular materials. In addition, the majority of the teachers (70%) did not receive adequate training from qualified people on nutrition education. Most of the teachers were (88.8%) confident that if they do a good job teaching nutrition, their students will be interested in nutrition and will change their dietary behaviors. This study found that there were significant differences among teachers according to their major and their perspective and confidence level about nutrition education.

Conclusion and Implications

The results of this study will help identify problems that affected teachers’ confidence level of teaching nutrition in their curricula. The investigators will provide the Saudi ministry of education with recommendations to solve the identified problems.

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Teachers’ Perspective and Confidence Level About Nutrition Education in Boys’ Public High Schools In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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