Improvement of Diet and Physical Activity Behavior in Children

What is it about?

School nurses have an important position in terms of strengthening children to make healthy life choices which will affect them throughout their lives. So this study is to determine the effect of the “Diet and Physical Activity Program for Health” (DAPAPH), prepared in accordance with the CATCH program and performed under the leadership of nurses, on the nutrition and physical activity behaviors of school-age children.

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Why is it important?

As the foundations of healthy lifestyle behaviors are laid in childhood and adolescence periods, it is very important to get children to adopt the habit of healthy nutrition and regular physical activity during the childhood period with the aim of protecting individual health and reducing the health risks that may be encountered in the future.

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