Supplemental Feeding: Strategy on Increasing Body Mass Index (Bmi) Wasted Grade 8 Students of Smnchs

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Malnutrition or malnourishment is the condition that results from eating a diet which nutrients are either not enough or are too much such that the diet causes health problems. One of the alarming issues in SMNCHS is malnutrition. To address the issue, a supplemental feeding activity to these identified students must be given priority in order to have a wasted school zone free and to help students minimizing their number of absences in school due to malnutrition.

METHODS

The experimental design was used to determine the effectivity of supplemental feeding program in San Miguel National Comprehensive High School. The study used purposive random sampling for Grade 8 students. Students were weighed and measured for its weight and height to determine their Body Mass Index and identified wasted students in Grade 8. Supplemental feeding was done weekly, every Wednesday only. The first feeding was given, October 12, 2016 and the last feeding was January 11, 2017.

RESULTS

The Grade 8 students benefited with the weekly supplemental feeding which has a higher mean of 16.55 compared to their mean before supplemental feeding which is 15.5. Looking at the standard deviation, students underwent supplemental feeding has lower standard deviation of .44 compared to the standard deviation before supplemental feeding which is .94. This signifies that wasted students of Grade 8 would likely to recover its health problem thus increases BMI result and be in the normal level of nutritional status.

DISCUSSIONS

The result implies that weekly supplemental feeding is an effective strategy to recover wasted Grade 8 students of SMNCHS. This can help our students recover from the physical problem as to reduce school problems on student's absenteeism. This indicates further that students benefited by the feeding program, thus protecting them from health problems in the future will be insured. As to conduct this study, students in wasted level can recover slowly but surely as long as sustainability of the feeding program be observed. The effect of supplemental feeding can help on the recovery from mild to moderate wasting school children.