Summary

In this Study Session, you have learnt that:

• Meeting, Peer Education, Demonstration, Communicating messages through mass and use of IEC material are some of the methods of nutritional education that you have learnt so far.
• Before delivering nutritional education, the health extension worker needs to have a plan considering the following points:
  
  • What are the message and health information to be given?.
  • When to deliver it and for how long? And by whom?.
  • What are the participants and target group?.
  • What method of communication has to be used?.
  • What materials are needed?.
  • The method of monitoring and evaluation.
• Each of the methods of communication that you have learnt has their own advantages and limitations. For instance, mass media communication has an advantage of reach many people quickly, good for awareness creation and believable while one-sided (linear) nature difficulty in target differentiation remains its limitation.
• Peer education has an advantage of influencing peers to come to the desired positive behaviour quickly while the training demand for the for peer educators and its sustainability issues considered as a disadvantage.
• The use of IEC materials like posters, flyers, leaflets, brochures, booklets, messages for health education sessions, radio broadcast or TV spots, etc. facilitates nutritional education