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4-29-2013

Healthy Eating Habits of School-Aged Children in Rural Areas Amanda Wormley The College at Brockport, [email protected]

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Running head: HEALTHY EATING HABITS              Healthy Eating Habits of School-Aged Children in Rural Areas A Senior Honors Thesis

Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Graduation in the College Honors Program

By Amanda Wormley Nursing Major The College at Brockport April 29th , 2013

Thesis Director: Dr. Kathleen Peterson, Chair of the Nursing Department

Educational use of this paper is permitted for the purpose of providing future students a model example of an Honors senior thesis project.  

HEALTHY EATING HABITS 

2  Abstract

This study provides further understanding of interventions to impact healthy eating habits in children. Children received a short lesson on healthy eating habits, and took a pre and post test to see how much their knowledge improved. Test means increased from pre-test to post-test (51.76 to 60.48). A paired samples t-test showed the results to be statistically significant (p