Evaluation On College Students' Nutritive Status And Investigation On Their Nutritive Knowledge-attitude-practice

Objective Evaluating on college students'nutritive status and investigating on their nutritive knowledge,attitude,dietary behaviors,so as to apply scientific basis to improve their nutritional healthy level.Methords Self-designed questionnaires were distributed to 871 college students which were selected by random sampling from Wuhan Polytechnic University to search their nutritive status and their nutritive knowledge-attitude-practice.All the students were divided into different groups according to the major they joined in ( intervention group and non-intervention group)and the places they were brought up(big city,medium-sized city,town,country).BMI was used to evaluate students'nutritive status,frequency was used to describe college students'nutritive knowledge,attitude and dietary behaviors,t-test was used to compare diffrernt background students'average of nutritive knowledge,χ2-test was used to compare diffrernt background students'rating level of nutritive knowledge,every nutritive knowledge rubric,nutritive attitude and dietary behaviors. Results Among the students investigated,there was 20.4 percent was malnutritive,2.3 percent was fat.The ratio of malnutritive in female is significantly higher than male college studengs,but the ratio of normai and fat is significantly lower than the other group.There are significant differences between different background students in fat,the ratio of fat from high to low is:medium-sized city ,town,country,big city.The average of nutritive knowledge for college students is (29.22±4.70),belonging to good grade.There is significant difference in average of nutritive knowledge between male and female.Male's average of nutritive knowledge is(27.82±4.91),female's average of nutritive knowledge is (30.21±4.27).The intervention group's average is (31.48±3.22),the other group is(28.40±4.88),the difference is significant too.82.0% students rating level of nutritive knowledge is good and excellence.Awareness for knowledge of dietary behaviors and sickness of typhoid,cholera,hepatitis A ,hepatocirrhosis,sugar diabetes appear less than 50%.From the result,we can see the nutritive attitude of students investigated is well,62.5% students eating follows regulation,but 48.7% is vegetarian,52.3% need 10~20min to eating one meal,male eat faster zhan female.83.1% students eat breakfast everyday,above 70.0% students like soya-bean milk,milk,cereal product,porridge,fruit and egg for breakfast.Students meal frequency weekly is not good,50.7% eat vegetable over 4 times,less than 35.0% eat meat,fish and eggs,milk,bean,fruit,potatoes over 4 times weekly.Less than 40.0% students like fried dishes and snack.92.5% students often drink water,over 30.0% students often drink milk beverage,juice beverage,tea and sodas.10.3% students often drink wine, beer,table-wine and spirit drink frequency appear more than 10%.70.5% students monthly consumption is 201~400 yuan.There were significant differences between different sex,major,background groups in dietary behaviors.Conclusion Students'nutritive status , nutritive knowledge ,attitude and dietary behaviors are good in general,but there are some deficiency in nutritive knowledge,un-reasonable in eating structure,ignoreing breakfast.Female appear better in nutritive knowledge,attitude and dietary behaviors,but more malnutritive than male.Intervention group appear better in nutritive knowledge,attitude and dietary behaviors than non-intervention group.For ecomomical limitation,country students appear worse in food choice and arrange than city students.So we shoud strengthen the education about nutrition and improve meal quality in University to improve physical and mental health in college students.