Clinical Nutrition Workshop
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Evaluation Question
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Data Required
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Data Collecting tool
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Time Point
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GOAL: Increase fruit and vegetable consumption among students on QUT KG campus by 10% within 3 years
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What is the nutrition condition of the children of 3-5 years age?
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Need to measure height and weight of the children.
Understand the choice of food.
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Campaign to measure the height and weight.
Game includes providing fruits and junk food to understand the choice of food (Rush et al., 2015).
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Two months.
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OBJECTIVE 1: To increase by 10% the number of students on low incomes preparing at least one additional meal containing fruit and vegetables per week within 12 months
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How many students have low-income family background?
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Number of students coming from poor or middle- class community.
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Survey within poor and middle-class community.
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One month.
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What kind of foods they are having in their regular life?
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Food habits of the children.
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Interview of the parents to know the food habits of the children and the kind of nutrition they are having (van, Ferrage & Rytz, 2014).
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Three months.
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STRATEGY: Develop healthy eating habits within the children from 3 to 8 years
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What kind of steps has been taken?
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Information about the process of implementing the strategy.
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Education related to nutrition in the form of attracting power point presentation.
Chart of fruits and vegetables and their nutrition value.
Activities to encourage the children to have fruits and vegetables (Bucher, Siegrist & Van, 2014).
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6 months.
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What kind of training has been provided to the service providers?
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Information about the training process of the service providers and their skills.
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Proper training manual to manage the children.
Ability to encourage the children to involve them in healthy activities (Sharma et al., 2015).
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3 months
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What are the marketing strategies of the programme to make it successful and achieved expected outcomes?
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Information about the process of disseminating the programme.
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Posters and banners to disseminate the programme.
Advertisement about the programme.
Involvement of social media.
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3 months.
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Who are involved in the development programme?
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Information about participants like service providers and children.
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Attendance sheet to monitor the presence of participants
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12 months.
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Who is advising the programme?
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The contribution of the local authority and health inspector of the region.
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Funding amount and moral support.
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6 months.
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Is there any partnership formed in order to support the programme?
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The information about the sponsors and their contribution and the amount of fund they have provided to make the programme successful
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Survey within some NGO and group of social workers.
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3 months.
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Are the facilitators provided the service in an effective way?
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Opinion of the parents and the feelings of the children.
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Interview of the parents regarding the benefits of such programme.
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1 month.
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How many people have access to the service?
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Accessibility of the resources to the individual.
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Survey regarding the availability of the resources to the low-income population.
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2 months
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Are the strategies appropriate to achieve the goal?
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Height and weight of the children after attending the programme.
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Monitoring the physical condition of the children.
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12 months.
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Are the people satisfied?
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Opinion of individual participant.
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Survey like giving marks to the programme out of ten.
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1 months.
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References
Bucher, T., Siegrist, M., & Van der Horst, K. (2014). Vegetable variety: an effective strategy to increase vegetable choice in children. Public health nutrition, 17(6), 1232-1236.
Rush, E., McLennan, S., Obolonkin, V., Cooper, R., & Hamlin, M. (2015). Beyond the randomised controlled trial and BMI–evaluation of effectiveness of through-school nutrition and physical activity programmes. Public health nutrition, 18(9), 1578-1581.
Sharma, S. V., Hedberg, A. M., Skala, K. A., Chuang, R. J., & Lewis, T. (2015). Feasibility and acceptability of a gardening-based nutrition education program in preschoolers from low-income, minority populations. Journal of Early Childhood Research, 13(1), 93-110.
van der Horst, K., Ferrage, A., & Rytz, A. (2014). Involving children in meal preparation. Effects on food intake. Appetite, 79, 18-24.
