ONLINE BASED NUTRITION EDUCATION: FOOD SAFETY QUIZ FOR ADOLESCENTS

Abstract

Nowadays, online based nutrition education can be more efficient way in the digital era while the people regularly used mobile sites for updating the information. This program aims to educate adolescent on food safety and balanced nutrition as well as to measure the effectiveness through online based quiz. This program was named "Food Safety Quiz via Online (FOSQO)", which held for four months divided into 8 terms and targeted on teenagers and young-adults (17-35 yrs old). The quiz in each term contained 20 questions regard food safety and balanced nutrition using online forms that available on the website page of Linisehat.com. The results showed that FOSQO had registered 595 adolescents including 303 actual participants. The mean nutrition knowledge score of the eight terms was 58±18 and the mean length of time spent to answer the questions was 215±39 seconds. The mean nutrition knowledge score of the 8 terms for the winners was 85±8 and the mean length of time spent to answer the questions was 194±45seconds. The score of nutrition knowledge among participants who join the quiz repeatedly was rising 21±14. Online based nutrition education of FOSQO could be an effective option to reach more millennial for improving their curiosity on gathering information of food safety and balanced nutrition.