A Comprehensive Study on Determination of Nutrition Knowledge and Nutrition Status in Adult Women
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2023
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Galenos Publ House
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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BACKGROUND/AIMS: Nutrition has direct effects on healthy growth, quality of life and lifespan. Studies have shown that most people are unable to fully grasp the healthiness and nutritional value of foods, and the relationships between diseases and diet. Due to these reasons, the aim of this study was to investigate the nutrition knowledge and the nutritional behaviors of women and the factors affecting them. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The questionnaire that was used for data collection includes two major sections. In first part of this questionnaire, the sociodemographic and lifestyle characteristics of the participants were investigated. In second section, the Adult Nutrition Knowledge Level (YETBID) Scale was used. The YETBID Scale includes both a fundamental nutritional and food-health knowledge part, and a food preference part. This study was conducted with 380 adult women aged 20-49 years via a face-to-face questionnaire method between June and September, 2019. The test for conformity to normal distribution was provided by the t-test in quantitative data, and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was applied to qualitative data. RESULTS: The important indicators having significant relationships with nutrition knowledge levels were found to be education level, age, marital status, dieting, percentage of income allocated to kitchen expenditure, having an illness, and having prior nutritional education. The important indicators having significant relationships with food preference were found to be having an illness and having prior nutritional education. In the food preference section, the ratio of correct answers was generally higher than the nutrition knowledge part. CONCLUSION: The results showed that an adult woman's nutrition knowledge level and food preference can be affected by many factors. However, more research should be performed on this topic in order to obtain more information.
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Food Preferences, Nutrition, Nutritional Status, Nutritional Knowledge Level, Woman
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Cyprus Journal Of Medical Sciences
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