ผลของโปรแกรมส่งเสริมการมีส่วนร่วมของครอบครัวต่อการปฏิบัติของครอบครัวในการจัดการเครื่องดื่มที่มีน้ำตาลรสหวานของเด็กวัยเรียนที่มีภาวะโภชนาการเกิน

Abstract

Enhancing parental participation in the management of sugar-sweetened beverages for school-age children with overweight will aid in preventing excessive consumption. This quasi-experimental, two-group, pretest-posttest design aimed to investigate the effect of a family participation promotion program on families’ practices in managing their overweight school-age children’s consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages. The participants were 38 parents of overweight school-age children in secondary school selected by purposive sampling who were assigned by random sampling to two groups of 19 parents each. One group received the program, and one did not. The instruments utilized included a family participation enhancement program, devised by the researcher based on Community Participation (Cohen and Uphoff, 1986) for a duration of 8 weeks; the family participation promotional manual; PowerPoint slides; a video instructor; the LINE application; and family participation kits (measuring cup, teaspoon, Brix refractometer). The data collecting instrument was the family practice questionnaire on sugar-sweetened beverage management for school-age children with overweight, with a Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0.942. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, chi-square test, Fisher’s exact test, and independent t-test. The results indicated that the group receiving the program had a higher average score for family practice in sugar-sweetened beverage management for their children after receiving the program than before with a statistically significant difference (p < .001). After the study, the group receiving the program had a higher average score for family practice in sugar sweetened beverages management of their children than the group not receiving the program with a statistically significant difference (p < .001). The results from this study can be used as a model to promote sugar-sweetened beverage management for school-age children with overweight.