A Quasi Experimental Study to Assess Effectiveness of "Peer Tutoring" Method on Knowledge and Attitude regarding Rainbow Diet for Promotion of Health among Early Adolescents of Selected Government School of Durg District (C.G.)

Dr. Kalpana Bhushan Joshi, Shirin Bhoyer

Abstract: Peer tutoring is a cooperative learning technique in which one student act as tutor and other students group member are tutees and help each other to discuss topics. Rainbow Diet means to gather different colour food ingredients especially fruits and vegetables in our daily diet plan and consume daily. adequate and balance nutrition is very important for growing school going children because 11- 13 years of age all cognitive, physical, mental development occur very fast. study was quantitative quasi experimental One group pre-test post-test research design was used; 100 adolescents was Government Middle School Godpendri and Government Middle School Devada Block Patan Durg were participated. data was analyzed under 5 sections where major finding was in pre-test 80(80%) were has average knowledge and remaining 20(20%) were has poor knowledge. In post-test majority 54(54%) of students were has good knowledge and remaining 46(46%) were has good knowledge. In pre-test 94(94%) were has neutral attitude and remaining 6(6%) were has negative attitude. In post-test majority 82(82%) of students were has good knowledge and remaining 18(18%) were has neutral. In pre-test mean is 12.74 and SD is 3.02, in post-test mean is 20.62 and SD is 3.53 and total knowledge gain is 26.27%. in pre-test mean is 13.22 and SD is 2.57, in post-test mean is 23.9 and SD is 3.72 and total knowledge gain is 35.6%. knowledge paired ?t? value were 14.81 at the level of P=0.05 which shows highly significant and the attitude paired ?t? value is 16.23 which is also highly significant. is moderately positive correlation between knowledge and Attitude score of pre-test and post-test knowledge score of the adolescents r=0.60. results of the research study supported colourful and varieties of foods and specific pigments needed to improve the health status and attractive so children eat with own interest and positive towards for consumption of foods. study recommended to conduct more study in different settings and large sample size also need to adopt different cooperative learning techniques.

Keywords: Rainbow diet, Early adolescents, Peer tutoring, Health Promotion

How to Cite?: Dr. Kalpana Bhushan Joshi, Shirin Bhoyer, "A Quasi Experimental Study to Assess Effectiveness of "Peer Tutoring" Method on Knowledge and Attitude regarding Rainbow Diet for Promotion of Health among Early Adolescents of Selected Government School of Durg District (C.G.)", Volume 15 Issue 5, May 2026, International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), Pages: 1564-1568, https://www.ijsr.net/getabstract.php?paperid=SR251214124437, DOI: https://dx.dx.doi.org/10.21275/SR251214124437

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