Abstract
Background: The Nutrition Education Committee of the Japanese Society of Health Education and Promotion has been working for the research about "food and nutrition education (FNE) evaluation in school" since 2013. This article reports a summary of the open round-table discussion titled "How to introduce evaluation method of health education and promotion into FNE in school?"
Contents: Mr. Yokoshima introduced the material titled "FNE in school-centered nutrition teachers" and stated the importance of introducing FNE into school evaluations. Mr. Ohta emphasized the importance of setting specific goals to evaluate FNE in school, and of evaluating outcome and process separately. Professor Akamatsu proposed three points to evaluate FNE in school. These points were as follow: 1) the goal of FNE in school is to develop a healthful eating habit; 2) FNE evaluation in school should be conducted based on the PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) cycle; and 3) FNE in school should adopt theories of behavioral science. After the open discussion, 30 participants responded that they were "very satisfied" and 29 were "satisfied" with it (valid responses were 62).
Conclusions: We found it is important to use the evaluation method proposed by the Nutrition Education Committee. We will continue challenging to introduce FNE into school evaluations and diffuse an evaluation method of health education and promotion for the FNE in school.
