Evaluation of The Nutrition and Food Safety Knowledge and Behaviour of The Young
Abstract
This study was conducted in order to evaluate the nutrition knowledge, attitude and
behaviour states of students studying in different departments of Gazi University. 250 students
(68 male and 182 female) were included to this study who were studying in health sciences
(n=140), social sciences (n=46) and physical sciences (n=64). Developed by Turconi et
al. (2003), a scale of 9 sections and 84 questions was applied to the students. Data were
evaluated through SPSS 22.0 program. The average age of all students was19.74±1.84 years.
The averages of the body mass index (BMI) that is used in defining being overweight were
22.55±2.75 and 21.25±2.99 kg/m 2
in the males and females respectively than females. Food
habits (FH), healthy / unhealthy diet habits and foods (HUDF), nutrition knowledge (NK) and
food safety knowledge (FSK) scores of students studying in health science were significantly
higher than the students studying in science and social sciences. When all subgroups were
evaluated according to sex, it was found that the scores of female students were higher than
males and this difference was significant in all other subgroups except for self – efficacy (SE)
(p<0.05). Only physical activity scores of males were higher than females (p <0.05). It was
observed that among students, those with higher BMI have lower food safety knowledge (FSK)
and healthy/unhealthy diet habits knowledge (HUDF) scores (p<0.05) than the others. In the
study, it was concluded that the nutrition knowledge and habits of students studying in the
health science were better than the students studying in other fields.
Keywords
nutrition knowledge,food habits,students studyıng ın the unıversıty
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