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Systematic Review: Effect of Health Education Intervention on Improving Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Adolescents on Malnutrition

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Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Selangor, Malaysia
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College of Nursing and Midwifery, Damboa Road, Maiduguri, Maiduguri 600252, Borno State, Nigeria
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Department of Physical and Health Education, University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri 600230, Borno State, Nigeria
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Nutrients 2020, 12(8), 2426; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12082426
Received: 2 July 2020 / Revised: 30 July 2020 / Accepted: 4 August 2020 / Published: 13 August 2020
Adolescence is a phase in the life cycle of human beings. Adequate knowledge, attitudes and practices towards malnutrition are necessary for proper growth and development and for their future children. This systematic review aimed to determine the effect of health education intervention to improve the knowledge, attitudes and practices of adolescents on malnutrition. PubMed, Scopus, clinical trials, CINAHL, SAGE, Science Direct and Medline were searched according to Preferred Reporting Item for Systematic Reviews and Meat-analysis (PRISMA) guidelines to identified published studies from January 2013 to December 2019 based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria. A total of eight studies were included in this review. Data extraction was done based on randomized controlled trial only. Three out of the eight studies had low risk of bias, the overall evidence of the study was moderate. Findings from this study suggest that health education intervention among adolescents have significantly improved their knowledge, attitudes and practices. More specific interventions should be conducted in low and middle income countries since they bear more of the burden of malnutrition globally. View Full-Text
Keywords: adolescents; knowledge; attitude; practice; malnutrition; intervention; health education; nutrition; undernutrition; risk of bias adolescents; knowledge; attitude; practice; malnutrition; intervention; health education; nutrition; undernutrition; risk of bias
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Charles Shapu, R.; Ismail, S.; Ahmad, N.; Lim, P.Y.; Abubakar Njodi, I. Systematic Review: Effect of Health Education Intervention on Improving Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Adolescents on Malnutrition. Nutrients 2020, 12, 2426. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12082426

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Charles Shapu R, Ismail S, Ahmad N, Lim PY, Abubakar Njodi I. Systematic Review: Effect of Health Education Intervention on Improving Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Adolescents on Malnutrition. Nutrients. 2020; 12(8):2426. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12082426

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Charles Shapu, Ruth, Suriani Ismail, Norliza Ahmad, Poh Y. Lim, and Ibrahim Abubakar Njodi. 2020. "Systematic Review: Effect of Health Education Intervention on Improving Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Adolescents on Malnutrition" Nutrients 12, no. 8: 2426. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12082426

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