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Nutritional Knowledge and Attitudes in Relation to Dietary Intake of College Students at Mountain State Agricultural College
Thesis Abstract:
The study attemptedd to determine the dietary adequacy of Mountain State Agricultural College (MSAC) students who took nutrition education and the factors that underlie it.
Results showed that 31 percent of the respondents were 21 years old and almost all of them were single. Most of them had normal weight (62%) but more were overweight (27%) than underweight (11%). Their ratings in their nutrition education ranged from 1.5 (very good) to 3.5 (conditional). The majority stayed in boarding houses and cooked their own meals.
The mean score of respondents in the nutrition knowledge test was 22.17 out of 40. Sixty-four percent of respondents got scores below the mean. More than half (53%) ranked below the medium knowledge category.
Almost all (98%) the respondents had favorable attitude while 85 percent had favorable food beliefs.
There was a homogeneous mixture among the respondents as reflected bt the standard deviation analysis of nutrition knowledge (Standard Deviainot = 5.36), nutrition attitude (SD = 5.81), and food beliefs (SD = 5.82).
Examination of the nutrient intake of the respondents revealed that niacin, calcium, and protein exceeded, while vitamin C was the most inadequately met nutrient. Among the food groups, most of the body-building foods were more than 100 percent adequate as compared to the recommended dietary allowance (RDA). Cereals and cereal groups were sufficiently met (99.5%) while friut and vegetable groups exceeded the RDA intake.
Among the variables tested, nutrition knowledge, allowance for food, and recency of training were the only factors found to influence diet rating of students.
Only 45.45 percent of the total error on diet rating was explained by the variables tested.