Clinical Nutrition Workshop 4: Evaluation Plan for QUT Students

This document presents an evaluation plan for a clinical nutrition workshop aimed at increasing fruit and vegetable consumption among students at the QUT KG campus. The plan outlines the goals, objectives, and strategies of the workshop, focusing on increasing the number of low-income students preparing meals with fruits and vegetables. It includes specific evaluation questions, data requirements, data collection tools, and timelines for assessing the effectiveness of the program. The evaluation covers various aspects, including the nutritional condition of children, food habits, training provided to service providers, marketing strategies, and the involvement of local authorities and NGOs. The plan also addresses the satisfaction of participants and the appropriateness of the strategies used to achieve the overall goal, incorporating methods like surveys, interviews, and monitoring of physical conditions.

Running head: CLINICAL NUTRITION WORKSHOP 4
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Evaluation Question Data Required Data Collecting tool Time Point
GOAL: Increase fruit and vegetable consumption among students on QUT KG campus by 10% within 3
years
What is the nutrition
condition of the children
of 3-5 years age?
 Need to measure
height and weight
of the children.
 Understand the
choice of food.
 Campaign to
measure the height
and weight.
 Game includes
providing fruits
and junk food to
understand the
choice of food
(Rush et al.,
2015).
Two months.
OBJECTIVE 1: To increase by 10% the number of students on low incomes preparing at least one
additional meal containing fruit and vegetables per week within 12 months
How many students have
low-income family
background?
Number of students
coming from poor or
middle- class community.
Survey within poor and
middle-class community.
One month.
What kind of foods they
are having in their regular
life?
Food habits of the
children.
Interview of the parents to
know the food habits of
the children and the kind
of nutrition they are
having (van, Ferrage &
Rytz, 2014).
Three months.
STRATEGY: Develop healthy eating habits within the children from 3 to 8 years
What kind of steps has
been taken?
Information about the
process of implementing
the strategy.
 Education related
to nutrition in the
form of attracting
power point
presentation.
 Chart of fruits and
vegetables and
their nutrition
value.
6 months.

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 Activities to
encourage the
children to have
fruits and
vegetables
(Bucher, Siegrist
& Van, 2014).
What kind of training has
been provided to the
service providers?
Information about the
training process of the
service providers and their
skills.
 Proper training
manual to manage
the children.
 Ability to
encourage the
children to involve
them in healthy
activities (Sharma
et al., 2015).
3 months
What are the marketing
strategies of the
programme to make it
successful and achieved
expected outcomes?
Information about the
process of disseminating
the programme.
 Posters and
banners to
disseminate the
programme.
 Advertisement
about the
programme.
 Involvement of
social media.
3 months.
Who are involved in the
development programme?
Information about
participants like service
providers and children.
Attendance sheet to
monitor the presence of
participants
12 months.
Who is advising the
programme?
The contribution of the
local authority and health
inspector of the region.
Funding amount and moral
support.
6 months.
Is there any partnership The information about the Survey within some NGO 3 months.

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formed in order to support
the programme?
sponsors and their
contribution and the
amount of fund they have
provided to make the
programme successful
and group of social
workers.
Are the facilitators
provided the service in an
effective way?
Opinion of the parents and
the feelings of the
children.
Interview of the parents
regarding the benefits of
such programme.
1 month.
How many people have
access to the service?
Accessibility of the
resources to the individual.
Survey regarding the
availability of the
resources to the low-
income population.
2 months
Are the strategies
appropriate to achieve the
goal?
Height and weight of the
children after attending the
programme.
Monitoring the physical
condition of the children.
12 months.
Are the people satisfied? Opinion of individual
participant.
Survey like giving marks
to the programme out of
ten.
1 months.
Reference:
Bucher, T., Siegrist, M., & Van der Horst, K. (2014). Vegetable variety: an effective strategy to
increase vegetable choice in children. Public health nutrition, 17(6), 1232-1236.
Rush, E., McLennan, S., Obolonkin, V., Cooper, R., & Hamlin, M. (2015). Beyond the
randomised controlled trial and BMI–evaluation of effectiveness of through-school
nutrition and physical activity programmes. Public health nutrition, 18(9), 1578-1581.
Sharma, S. V., Hedberg, A. M., Skala, K. A., Chuang, R. J., & Lewis, T. (2015). Feasibility and
acceptability of a gardening-based nutrition education program in preschoolers from low-
income, minority populations. Journal of Early Childhood Research, 13(1), 93-110.

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van der Horst, K., Ferrage, A., & Rytz, A. (2014). Involving children in meal preparation.
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