The Effect of Nutritional Counseling to Changes in the Behavior of Consuming Various Food and Physical Activity in Obese Children

Background: Among adverse impacts of economic progress is the change in lifestyle from traditional life
style into a sedentary life style that is very less physical activity and deviation of diet intake which tend to be
high energy and little fiber.
The Objective: the study aimed to find out whether there were differences in eating behavior and the physical
activity of obese children after getting nutrition counseling intervention.
Method: This type of research is a pre-experimental study with a one-group pretest-posttest design. In this
design, a pretest is administered before treatment and post-test after treatment. The variables in this study are
the consumption of eating various foods and the behavior of physical activity measured before and after being
given nutritional counseling.
Result: The results showed that there was a difference in different dietary behavior before the intervention
and after with the mean score of 5.24 ± 1.248 and 5.59 ± 1.189. The results obtained p- value = 0.024. For
the physical activity of the students, before the intervention obtained an average value of 2.22 ± 0.506 after
intervention obtained an average value of 2.37 ± 0.531 and p- value = 0.008.
Conclusion: There are differences of eating behavior in consuming diverse food and physical activity before
and after counseling. The school should cooperate with parents of obese children to provide and monitor the
consumption of food and physical activity.