Nutrition Knowledge, Attitudes And Behovior Among Some Armed Police Soldiers

Purpose:To investigate the armed police soldiers on knowledge, attitude and behavior in nutrition, and to analyze the impacting factors on them. Then the lectures of basic nutrition were given to the soldiers, in order to make them understand the basic knowledge of nutrition, upright their food attitude, guide them to rectify bad behavior and promote the healthy body, raise the overall construction of the whole troops and the exaltation of the battle dint. The armed police soldiers come from various parts of the country, and will return to their hometown respectively when the service period is over. So learning more nutrition knowledge can not only promote their health but also have the exaltation in level of nutrition knowledge and cultivate the attitude and the habit for everyone around.Content:Contents of survey include general data, nourishment knowledge, nourishment attitude and nourishment behavior.Method:Cluster sampling was employed in this study. Some armed police soldiers were included as the object of study. A self-developed questionnaire about the knowledge, attitudes and behavior were investiged from these armed police soldiers. Nutrition intervention was made by giving a presentation on nutrition knowledge, and the same questionnaire was asked to fill again 20 days later.600 questionnaires were sent out and 544 available questionnaires were retrieved (response rate was 90.7%). The subjects for this investigation are male. Ages for these samples range from 15 to 30 years old (20.06±1.6). The questionnaire were sent out, filled in, collected on the spot and remained anonymous.Result:The hightest right selection rate among 25 basic nutrition questions is 66.0%, the lowest 16.9% before intervention. There were only 8 questions that the right selection rates were more than 50%. There were 76 objects (14%) whose right selection rate was above 60%. It showed that the soldiers are extremely shortage in basic nutrition knowledge. After intervention, the right selection rates of all questions range from 93% to 100%. The right selection rate to basic nutrition knowledge of all soldiers is more than 60%. The result showed that the soldiers hope to learn more nutrition knowledge. About the attitude questions, the correctness rate was 55.9% before intervention and 100% after intervention. In behavior, there are 3 questions that their expectation answer rate was above 50% before intervention. Because there was insufficient time between two investigation, the questions about behavior had not been asked to answer. However,100% soldiers would like to change their unhealth eating habits. Conclusion:The armed police soldiers are extremely short of basic nutrition knowledge. The basic nutrition knowledge should be supplied to them. To guide their attitude and behavior and promote their health, raise of overall construction of troops, promise the fighting strength of troops are important. Once they return hometown, they can also give the knowledge to everyone around.