Optimalisasi Status Gizi Anak Usia Sekolah Melalui Edukasi Nutrisi Sehat Berbasis Promosi Kesehatan

Abstract

Nutritional issues among school-aged children remain a critical issue, both globally and nationally, as they are directly related to physical and cognitive development, and academic achievement. This community service activity aims to improve students' nutritional knowledge through health promotion-based healthy nutrition education at SDN Sambong Dukuh I Jombang. The implementation method was carried out in four stages: a pre-test on nutritional knowledge, implementation of healthy nutrition education with an interactive approach, a post-test to measure changes in knowledge, and reflection and program evaluation. The instrument used was a nutritional knowledge questionnaire with assessment categories of good, sufficient, and poor. The results of the community service showed a significant increase in student knowledge after participating in the education. In the pre-test stage, the majority of students were in the poor category (≥70%), while after the intervention, the majority of students moved to the good category (≥80%) in almost all indicators. This improvement indicates that the school-based health promotion strategy is able to strengthen children's nutritional understanding. The discussion of the results also confirmed that the program's success was supported by participatory learning methods and the active involvement of teachers and health workers. This activity not only impacts individual students but also has the potential to expand its influence to the school and family environment. Thus, this program can be used as a model for strengthening school-based nutritional literacy that is applicable and sustainable.