Comparison of effectiveness of two education programs about improvement of edible oil consumption

The aim of the study is to assess knowledge and behavior of participants about dietary fats pattern. Also، our goal was to design a nutrition education program about dietary fat intakes which is relatively brief and low cost in terms of time and material. In this experimental study we recruited three groups of household women under the cover of health centers of Tabriz city as Random-cluster sampling method. Group A (n= 90) participated for 3 sessionsand group B (n= 86) for 5 sessions education intervention about dietary fat pattern. Also group C (n= 90) were allocated as control group. We randomly selected some partners (n= 65) of intervention groups (group A and B)، as reinforces factors، the other control group. For evaluation، a knowledge and behavior questionnaire was administrated to all groups. Furthermore، the effectiveness of education was compared among two intervention groups with different attendance classes. For mean scores knowledge، no significant difference existed between groups. Mean score of behavior were less than 50% in all groups [group A: 49. 3±16. 5، group B: 44. 3±17. 7، group C: 43. 57±13. 5 and group M: 50. 51±18. 66]. Mean scores of knowledge and behavior showed a significant difference in the intervention groups (post-test versus pre-test) [group A: 79. 4±23. 6 and group B 83. 22±21. 5، p<0. 001]. Different impacts of class attendances have not significant effectiveness for knowledge and behavior to compare two intervention groups (groups A and B)، but significant compared control group (group C) (p=0. 0001). Women had low knowledge about optimal dietary fat pattern and behavior levels were poor. Short time education program was effective for household women.