Korean Journal of Community Nutrition (대한지역사회영양학회지)

The Korean Society of Community Nutrition (대한지역사회영양학회)
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Effect of Nutrition Education on Improving Diet Behavior of University Students

식품영양관련 교양과목 수강 후 대학생들의 영양지식, 식태도, 식행동 변화에 관한 연구

  • Park Myoung Soon (Department of Food and Nutrition, College of Home Economics, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Kim Seong Ai (Department of Food and Nutrition, College of Home Economics, Chungnam National University)
  • 박명순 (충남대학교 생활과학대학 식품영양학과) ;
  • 김성애 (충남대학교 생활과학대학 식품영양학과)
  • Published : 2005.04.01
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Abstract

This study was to investigate the changes in nutrition knowledge, nutrition attitude and food habit during 'meal management and diet' course to nonmajor university students by questionnaires. 280 students of Chungnam university who registered nonmajor 'meal management and diet' course in the 2003 were the subjects. The results of this study are as follows. BMIs of male and female students were 21.5 and 19.3. According to BMI, underweight subjects were $24.3\%$, normal and overweight (danger & obesity) subjects were each $62.4\%$ and $13.6\%$, respectively. The nutrition knowledge scores significantly (p < 0.001) increased from 12.1 to 14.0 after the lecture, and the uncertainty rate of nutrition know- ledge decreased significantly. Also, there were no significant differences in nutrition attitude score (39.5 to 39.8 points). Female subjects showed significantly (p < 0.05) higher nutrition knowledge scores (12.3 points) than male (11.4 points). $20\%$ of the subjects smoked and $82.9\%$ had alcohol drinks and $24.4\%$ exercised more than 3 times per week. The subjects who ate regular meals significantly increased from 9.3 to $12.5\%$ after the lecture, and smoking subjects decreased from 20 to $13\%$, but alcohol drinking subjects did not changed significantly.

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