Author(s): Sanyogita V Deshmukh

Abstract:
Nutrition education of people has been recognised as an important tool for promotion of nutritional status. It imparts knowledge about dietary requirements and food choices. Game based approach may be effective for imparting nutrition education; hence experiment was carried out with specific objectives to aware students about their dietary nutrients requirement and their sources. Carom is a popularly played game with family and friends and carom board game was modified and used. The game based approach was found effective to change in knowledge due to playing of developed educational carom. Difference in mean score was computed by paired ‘t’ test, and it was significant at 0.05 level of probability, Hence concluded that the carom game was effective for imparting nutrition knowledge about food groups their sources functions, and recommended dietary allowances.