The survey of finding out the relationship between the eating behavior and the nutritional knowledge was made in Sangji University on two student groups; one is 196 studnets majoring food & nutrition relevant subjects and the other is 875 studnets maj...
The survey of finding out the relationship between the eating behavior and the nutritional knowledge was made in Sangji University on two student groups; one is 196 studnets majoring food & nutrition relevant subjects and the other is 875 studnets majoring non-food & nutrition relevant subjects. The results are as follows;
1) The score of eating habits showed significant difference(P<0.05) in accordance with the majoring nutrition major studnets. Specially when it was considered item by item the score of eating habits was marked high in the intake of such foods as vegetable and fruit, dairy product, instant food(P<0.05), and balanced meal(P<0.01).
2) Depending on the major, significant difference was found in such eating habit items as diet principle(P<0.05), and frequency of no lunch(P<0.05). In other words, the students majoring food& nutrition relevant subjects acknowledged the diet in relation with the nutrition, and the studnets majoring non-food & nutrition relevant subjects acknowledged the diet as the way to get rid of hunger or as a customary behavior. The frequency of no lunch was high in the student group of majoring non-food & nutrition subjects responded with the high test score by answering healthy or relatively healthy.
3) The frequency of drinking and smoking was significantly low in the group of students majoring food & nutrition relevant subjects.
4) The total score of 20 questions regarding nutrition knowledge was high in the student group of majoring food & nutrition relevant subjects(P<0.05), and they showed high scores of right answer in 12 questions and there was no significant difference in 8 questions.
Considering the students majoring food & nutrition relevant subjects recorded high score in such areas as eating habits, eating behavior, frequency of drinking & smoking, nutrition knowledge, and correct answer ratio about nutrition knowledge, we believe it will be greatly helpful for the studnets to obtain right eating behaviors food and eating attitude when the university opens the lecture of nutrition relevnt subjects as the cultural subjects.
They can understand the nutrition well and obtain better knowledge through the college lecture rather than through the uncertain resources like mass media. In addition to this, we believe this is the effective way to maintain efficient health management by practicing right nutrition knowledge into their daily life.