• Ms. Fera Mahimaben Laxmanbhai
• Mr. Jayant V. Makwana

ABSTRACT : Background: The world health organization (WHO) defines an adolescent as any person between ages 10–19. During adolescent various physiological changes occurs as a result, nutritional requirement of the body increase tremendously, therefore important to consume a balance diet at this stage. In adolescent various health problem occur such as reproductive health problems, nutritional health problem, psychosocial problem etc., but due to poor intake and availability of diet major health problem is under nutrition or over nutrition. Adolescent especially school going children are most vulnerable towards the problem like under nutrition or obesity and when they grow in age this adverse health tendency continues to persist and impairs the health and wellbeing of adolescent population and increase the risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and some cancer. OBJECTIVES • To assess the pre-test and post-test level of knowledge and attitude regarding healthy food habits among adolescents. • To evaluate the effectiveness of video assisted teaching on knowledge and attitude regarding healthy food habits among adolescents. • To find out association between pre-test level of knowledge and attitude with • Selected demographic variables regarding healthy food habits among adolescents. Methodology: In this study, pre-experimental research design was used. For total 100 adolescents who met the sampling criteria were selected with Simple random sampling technique from the selected school. The data were collected using structure knowledge questionnaire and attitude scale. Results: The result revealed that a significant difference in the mean pre-test knowledge score (9.13) and the mean post-test knowledge score (17.08) of adolescent after administering of video assisted teaching as measured by ‘t’ test (27.248) which was highly significant at 0.001 level of significance. It shows that these was significant difference in mean attitude pre-test score (42.87) and post-test attitude score (49.17) of adolescents, the ‘t’ test measured (11.815) which shows highly significance at 0.001 level of significance. There is no association between pre-test knowledge and attitude with selected demographic variable. Only gender shows that significant association with selected demographic variable. Conclusion: The study proved that video assisted teaching is an effective teaching strategy in improving the knowledge and attitude of adolescents related healthy food habits. Hence, there is a need to create awareness about healthy food habits among adolescents in school or community area. Key words: knowledge, attitude, prevention, client.

knowledge, attitude, prevention, client.

"A study to assess the effectiveness of video assisted teaching on knowledge & attitude of adolescent regarding healthy food habits in school of siddhpur city. ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 2, page no.a462-a470, February-2025, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2502056.pdf

"A study to assess the effectiveness of video assisted teaching on knowledge & attitude of adolescent regarding healthy food habits in school of siddhpur city. ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 2, page no. ppa462-a470, February-2025, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2502056.pdf