Table 3.

Nutrition education program by using social cognitive theory.

Category	Theme	Behavioral capability	Outcome expectations	Self-efficacy	Observational learning/modeling	Outcome expectancies	Self-regulation/self-control	Environment
Nutrition	Nutrition & meal planning	•Students can calculate their healthy weight, which depends on their age & height. •Students can develop their own healthy meal plan.	•Following the healthy meal plan would promote one’s health.	•Students can create their own meal plan & follow it consistently.	•Students can observe their peers following each own healthy meal plan & its positive health effects. •Students would encourage themselves by observing healthy eating habits of their peers.	•Following one’s healthy meal plan is more important than an unhealthy diet because it improves their physical fitness & academic performance.	•Students will monitor & evaluate their dietary patterns.	•Students & teachers will appreciate the poster showing the importance of the balanced meals.
	Obesity & eating disorder	•Students can choose healthy snacks. •Students can have a healthy body image.	•One’s healthy body image would be the foundation for good mental & physical health. •Consumption of healthy snacks will improve one’s nutritional status.	•Students will encourage their peers to be aware of obesity or eating disorder problems.	•Students will observe the dietary habits of their peers with obesity or with eating disorders.	•A fad diet is easy & quick way to lose weight, but following fad diets are harmful to our health due to a loss of body water & muscle.	•Students will monitor their nutritional status consistently.	•The poster will show that having a healthy body image is the 1st step of the nutrition management.
	Nutrition labeling	•Students can use nutrition labeling in checking their foods.	•Checking the nutrition labeling can help us choose the foods with less sugars, sodium, or fats.	•Students will gradually use the nutrition labeling of processed foods.	•Students would share the nutrition labeling of processed foods they regularly consumed with their peers.	•Nutrition labeling is more useful than considering taste & cost of processed foods to maintain good health.	•Students would monitor the use of nutrition labeling of foods they will purchase.	•The poster will consist of image that when a customer will choose their foods they should carefully check the nutrition labeling of the processed foods.