ISSN : 2663-2187

Healthy nutrition in early childhood institutions and its role in enhancing health security for kindergarten children: a field study from the point of view of kindergarten teachers

Main Article Content

Ali Abd Eltawab Mohamed Etman,Sahar Mansour Sayed Omar,Maha Hamoud Saeed Al-Yami,Salha Omarin Ahmed Mubarki
» doi: 10.33472/AFJBS.6.Si2.2024.971-981

Abstract

The study aimed to identify healthy nutrition in early childhood institutions and its role in enhancing health security for kindergarten children. The study population and sample consisted of (108) kindergarten teachers in the city of Najran in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, who were selected from government kindergarten institutions in a random manner. The study was conducted During the first semester of the university year (2023/2024), the descriptive analytical approach was used in the study, and the researchers built a questionnaire directed at kindergarten teachers to find out the role of healthy nutrition in early childhood institutions in enhancing the health security of a child from the point of view of kindergarten teachers, and it included The questionnaire consisted of 18 paragraphs distributed over three main axes. The first axis included “The reality of healthy nutrition in early childhood institutions for kindergarten children,” the second axis “Requirements of healthy nutrition in early childhood institutions and their role in enhancing health security for kindergarten children,” and the third axis “Proposals for healthy nutrition in Early childhood institutions and their role in enhancing health security for kindergarten children. The results were processed and the study reached the following results: Providing healthy nutrition in kindergarten institutions is necessary and a basic requirement in an era in which children today suffer from indiscriminate nutrition and unhealthy food. The research sample agreed that providing healthy nutrition is important and necessary in early childhood institutions to enhance the health security of kindergarten children, and it came in large proportions. The study concluded with some proposals and visions regarding healthy nutrition in early childhood institutions and its role in enhancing the health security of kindergarten children

Article Details