COST AND BENEFITS STUDY OF PROPOSED AWARENESS PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN WITH DIABETES’ NUTRITION

The current study drives at analyzing cost and benefit for evaluating the good healthy food programs for diabetic children in attempt to reach low-cost healthy programs to create awareness among children and their families. The researchers have used the deductive and inductive method in addition to the quasi-experimental method to fulfill study. A questionnaire form has been designed for children to identify what nutritional patterns and customs children tackle with. A questionnaire form is also designed for family to identify what quality of nutrition presented to their children. A proposed low-cost program is also designed for proper healthy nutrition of carbohydrates, protein, calories, and fats. A scale of awareness of low economically costs healthy nutrition is designed for study. The study is administered on a sample consists of (31) male/female children, aged (7-12 year olds) with weights range from (13-54 keg.) from some civil societies. The researchers come to several results as follows:

The proposed program proves its efficacy for being low-cost for developing awareness among mothers and children.
There is a significant difference between the good program for the diabetic person’s nutrition regarding carbohydrates and protein pre/post application of the program.
Researchers recommend the necessity for considering application of the proposed nutrition programs, as these programs have proved their low-cost to nearly half of the costs. Researchers recommend also developing awareness among mothers and their children of proper healthy nutrition.