Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the effective contents of a comprehensive health education curriculum for promoting QOL of obese children. In cooperation with S. town (Awa County, Chiba Prefecture), we considered effective contents of a comprehensive health education curriculum for promoting QOL. First, practical training was conducted by health specialists including school nurses and public health nurses for the purpose of forming a health education plan for promoting QOL on the PRECEDE Model. Second, in order to examine consistency of needs among the specialists, obese children and their parents, a questionnaire survey about QOL was conducted with elementary school children and their parents in 2002. As a result of this study, it was found that the contents of a comprehensive health education curriculum should include knowledge of the relation between obesity and lifestyle related disease as part of the cognitive domain, should promote self confidence as part of the affective domain, and should promote engaging in outdoor physical activities and participating in community events as part of the psychomotor domain.
