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    The Effect Of Peer Group Education Toward Snacks Behaviour In School Age Children In SDN 07 (Elementary School), Bukittinggi
    (2016-01-13) Yaslina; Yuliano, Aldo; Primal, Def
    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