Combating Poverty and Hunger through Nutritional Intervention for Improved Cognitive Functions in School Age Children in Somolu Local Government Area of Lagos State, Nigeria

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dc.contributor.authorOnwuama, M.A.C
dc.contributor.authorSodade, O.
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-26T10:25:13Z
dc.date.available2021-04-26T10:25:13Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionScholarly articlesen_US
dc.description.abstractPoverty and deprivation has led to insufficiency, inadequate nutrition, poor growth and cognitive development in vulnerable groups especially school age children in developing countries. A Randomised Control Trial study assessed influence of a 12-week nutritional intervention on public primary school children in Ayinke and Ladilak primary schools categorized as deprived schools in Somolu Areas of Lagos State. The population of the study was 508 school aged children, simple random sampling technique was used to select 100 participants for the study. 50 school aged children in Ayinke School formed the intervention group while the other 50 in Ladilak School formed the control group. 84 participants completed the study. A standardized Child psychological assessment tool Raven's Colored Progressive Matrices (CPM) questionnaire (r=0.89) was used to ascertain cognitive ability of participants. Study applied CPM as pretest and posttest and biometric measurements of mid upper arm circumference, weight, height-age ratio for data collection. Data analysis applied descriptive statistics of frequency counts, percentages and percentiles while paired sample t-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The results revealed differences between pre intervention biometric statistics, weight to height ratios and age to height ratios and showed that the learning ability of participants improved by 0.751(75.1%) in 68 participants using the color matrices at 0.05 level of significance while the CPM (Pre test and post test) revealed that the paired samples the variables indicated that nutritional intervention influenced body weight 0.997(99.7%) in 81 participants and the mid arm circumference had correlation of 0.971(97.1%) in 78 participants. The results also showed that the cognitive abilities of participants in the intervention group improved. In conclusion, most primary school children suffer malnutrition in various forms such as stunting and wasting. School based nutrition could be an incentive for families to send children to school and also for children to stay in school. Study recommends provision and access to meals at school. Therefore, government should promote supervised school feeding programme, while parents to be educated to ensure adequate nutrition at home to achieve Zero hungeren_US
dc.identifier.citationOnwuama, M.A.C., & Sodade, O. (2019). Combating Poverty and Hunger through Nutritional Intervention for Improved Cognitive Functions in School Age Children in Somolu Local Government Area of Lagos State, Nigeria. Journal of International Council for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance. Africa Region. 5(2). 48-57en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.unilag.edu.ng/handle/123456789/9355
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of International Council for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance. Africa Regionen_US
dc.subjectPoverty,en_US
dc.subjectHunger,en_US
dc.subjectNutritional Interventionen_US
dc.subjectCognitive Functionsen_US
dc.subjectSchoolen_US
dc.subjectResearch Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES::Social sciences::Educationen_US
dc.titleCombating Poverty and Hunger through Nutritional Intervention for Improved Cognitive Functions in School Age Children in Somolu Local Government Area of Lagos State, Nigeriaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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