Growth Through Nutrition in School. Adolescent Nutrition Interventions and Effectiveness of Radio Spot Dissemination Related Activities Based on the CIPP Model

Case Study from the year 2021 in the subject Health Sciences - Health education, , language: English, abstract: Good Nutrition is key to good mental and physical health. Nutrition communication is an art and technique of informing, influencing, and motivating individual, institutional and public audiences about the importance of nutritional issues. This mixed method research aims to determine the effectiveness of the Nutrition Audio messages communication performance and recommended some ideas for improving it. In this research, 500 nutrition club member students from 17 schools were participated in questionnaire and FGDs; 17 focal teachers,17 principals and 4 media directors answered open ended questions.

The author Getnet Eshetu having a degree in Biology and master's in Educational Psychology served for the Gondar Education Media Center for the past 20 years up to the present. He spends his time in the areas of management, training and research as well as designing and implementing media projects on different social and development issues. He is the author of two researches; one is 'Involving Children for Hand Washing Behavior Change: Repeated Message Delivery to Foster Action'; the other is 'Stories of Change from Open Diaries: The Joint Effects of Radio Messaging and Group Discussions to Fight Child Marriage'; both have been published by Anchor Academic Publishing in 2013 and 2014 respectively.