Nutritional booklet and social media: Their effects on adolescents' fattening-food knowledge and consumption

One cause of adolescents' fat-consumption imbalance is inadequate knowledge of nutrition and socialization about good eating habits. Adolescents like searching for food information through social media like Facebook and Instagram before consuming. This study was to analyse the effect of nutrition booklet and social media on the adolescents' fattening-food knowledge and consumptions. The sample of this quasi-experiment was 96 eleventh-grade Science students of SMAN 1, 3, and 5 Surakarta selected using probability proportional size sampling. This study was conducted in one month. Nutritional education intervention with social media and nutritional booklet was conducted six times in two weeks. The data were analysed using Wilcoxon, Kruskal Wallis, and Logistic Binary Regression with SPSS. Nutritional education with nutrition booklet influenced the fattening-food knowledge (p = 0.000) and consumption (p < 0.05). Nutritional education with social media influenced the fattening-food knowledge (p = 0.001) and consumption (p < 0.05). There were different scores of the fattening-food knowledge (p = 0.001) and consumption (p = 0.005) in the nutritional education group with nutritional booklet and social media. Nutritional booklet and social media influenced adolescents' fattening-food knowledge and consumption. There were different fattening-food knowledge and consumption in the adolescents using nutritional booklet and social media.