Abstract:
Almost all of school age children (95-96 %) tend to have school snacks at school. Beside the relativity of lower
level of nutrition ingredients, the food safety is the one thing should be concerned. The health problem related to
unhealthy picking up school snacks for children are hazard poisonous, cancer, food borne disease and some
children body’s growth and developmental problem. Unhealthy picking up school snacks can be prevented and
reduced by giving them a health education which can be implemented by involving these children directly as a
peer educator group to the school’s health program. In these circumstance, this research was aimed to describe
the effect of peer group education towards the picking up of school snacks behaviour in SDN 07 (elementary
school), Bukittinggi. The research design was pre and post test quasi experiment, and it was picking up of school
snacks behaviour differentiation between pre and post peer group education hypothesis. There were 10 students
in a peer educator group while 57 students as respondent. Picking up school snacks identified by giving samples
some questionaires beside the peer educator group were prepared almost 6 weeks in a purpose to act as an
educator for their friends as research samples. Demonstration method and booklet media were conducted along
thesee research processes. It revealed that the mean rate of pre-education for picking up the school snacks
behaviour is 12.66 with 1.065 deviated standard, while the post-education is 15.5 with 1.025, respectively.
Finally, the statistical test figured with 0.0000 p-value and tent to 5% of alpha value which indicated that there is
a significant differentiation between pre and post aducation relating to picking up of school snacks behaviour at
school.for sum up, it is very important to the health program parliament and school coordinator to involve
students as a peer group health educator in controlling and persuasing health behaviour and attitude related to
school age children
