EFFECT OF NUTRITION ON THE HEALTH STATUS OF PHYSICALLY

  • Format
  • Pages
  • Chapters


Do You Have New or Fresh Topic? Send Us Your Topic


Post Views:
1

THE EFFECT OF NUTRITION ON THE HEALTH STATUS OF PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED CHILDREN IN SCHOOL OF SPECIAL NEEDS IN NIGERIA

ABSTRACT

This study investigated the effects of nutrition on the health of the physically impaired children of school of special needs of Oru East Local
Government, Imo State. The subjects used consisted of (100) one hundred students randomly selected from five (5) classes from the school
of special needs in Imo State. A structure questionnaire designed by the investigator was used to collect data for the study. Percentage and
chi-square (x2) were used to analysed the data. The result showed that nutrition has effect on the physical performance of the physically
impaired children. Nutrition has effects on the health of the physically impaired children. The family status has influence on the nutritional
intake of the physically impaired children. The result further shows that nutrition has effects on the mental ability of physically impaired
children. The following recommendation are therefore suggested that students should be educated on nutrition through talks, seminar and
television programmes organized for this purpose in a daily basis. Nutrition should be more well taught, that is, the teaching of nutrition
should be more effective in secondary schools. Teachers should take it as a challenge to further educate these strangling children and
stress the importance of balance diet to both parents and children who are ignorance those variable that have effects on physically
impaired children health. Government should endeavor to make provisions on the concept of good health on the physically impaired
children.

THE EFFECT OF NUTRITION ON THE HEALTH STATUS OF PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED CHILDREN IN SCHOOL OF SPECIAL NEEDS IN NIGERIA

THE EFFECT OF NUTRITION ON THE HEALTH STATUS OF PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED CHILDREN IN SCHOOL OF SPECIAL NEEDS IN NIGERIA

Related

Previous articleTHE EFFECT OF FAMILY BACKGROUND ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN NIGERIA A CASE STUDY OF OSOGBO OSUN STATE


Do You Have New or Fresh Topic? Send Us Your Topic


0 Shares:
Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

You May Also Like