Learning Activity Design to Enhance Personal Health Habits of Elementary School Students Using Self-Regulation Concept: A Case Study of Cambodia
Keywords:
Personal health habits, Self-regulation, Learning activityAbstract
The purposes of the study were: 1). to compare the mean scores of health practices on the personal health according to Thai National Health Recommendation before and after experiment using self-regulation concept between experimental and control groups and 2).to compare the mean scores of health practices on the personal health according to Thai National Health Recommendation before experiment, after experiment and one month follow-up using self-regulation concept on the experimental group. This study was a quasi-experimental research, 30 students were classified as the experimental group and the other 30 students were control group. Students in class 3A and 3B which were in grade three of Pi Thnou Primary School were selected as the experimental and control groups by purposive selection. Two instruments were used in this study. The first one was the 14 learning activity plans, which implemented within seven weeks. The activities are conducted half hour every Wednesday and Thursday. Secondly, the instrument was the practice questionnaires on personal health. The content validity (IOC) of activities equaled to 0.90 and the reliability of the questions was 0.70. The mean score, standard deviation and t-test was used for data analysis. F-test was also used to compare the means score of pre-test, post-test and one month follow-up test of the experimental group. Finally, Scheffé was employed to test the differences of pair wise comparisons with the statistical significant at the .05 level. This study had been approved by National Ethic Committee for Health Research in Cambodia. The study findings were as follows:
- Before experiment, the mean scores of health practices between the experimental group (2.48) and control group (2.46) were found no statistically significant differences at the .05 level. However, after experiment, the mean scores of health practices on personal health between the experimental group (2.62) and control group (2.50) were found statistically significant differences at the .05 level.
The mean scores of the health practices on personal health in the experimental group after experiment and one month follow-up were found statistically significant differences from before experiment at the .05 level. On the other hand, the mean score between one month follow-up and after experiment were found no statistically significant differences at the .05 level.
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