Correlation of the nutrition knowledge, attitudes and behaviors among aboriginal students in Nantou

• Main Authors: WANG JAU HWA, 王昭華
• Other Authors: 林麗雲
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/40857954895302253846

碩士 === 弘光科技大學 === 食品科技所 === 102 === The research is aimed at investigating the relevance and relationship among nutritional knowledge, attitudes and eating behaviors of Taiwanese aboriginal junior high school students. Based on the students in the school district, 1063 questionnaires are given and 938 of them are retrieved (the response rate is up to 88.24%). 839 questionnaires are valid to be analyzed in the survey. The statistics approaches include descriptive statistics, average value and standard variation, independent sample t test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson’s Correlation and univariate. Two of the findings are worth summarizing: 1 Fundamental variances: First, gender is obviously relevant to nutritional knowledge and eating behaviors. Besides, there is significant relation between glade and eating behaviors. Parents’ educational degree has great effect on nutritional knowledge; however, only father’s educational degree influences upon eating behaviors significantly. What’s more, the economic conditions of the students’ families play an important role in nutritional attitudes and eating behaviors. School education is the main source of the information about nutrition and food. 2 The score regarding nutritional knowledge is not good; in contrast, the one regarding nutritional attitudes is better. In addition, the score related to eating behaviors is the most excellent, which reveals their positive eating behaviors. Further, nutritional knowledge and attitudes correlate positively, and so do nutritional attitudes and eating behaviors. Suggestions of the research result: 1 Tribal culture should be included in school education in the aboriginal area to enhance the students’ absorption about nutritional knowledge and understanding about the characteristics of their tribal eating culture. 2 Encourage the parents to upgrade their nutritional knowledge and improve their eating behaviors in expectation of affecting children’s eating attitudes. 3 To increase the books on nutrition in the school library to make the students absorb relevant information. 4 Cultivate good nutritional attitudes and eating behaviors by means of the provision of educational resources to the aboriginal tribal churches and the holdings of the activities concerning nutrition supported by community resources. 5 The incorporation of health education and lunch hygiene education into school courses can contribute to promote students’ knowledge and attitudes with reference to nutrition.