| Childhood is an important period in the life of people, and balanced nutrition is not only the foundation of their healthy growth, but also the prerequisite for the normal development of physical and mental. As the most intimate for children and the primary caregiver who is care of children's daily life, parents provide a balanced diet for the children and play a key role to the healthy growth of children. Also parents are the children's first teacher, who instruct the health knowledge and adjust the dietary behavior norms. Parents concerning the children's nutrition knowledge, attitude and behavior will have a subtle influence on children.This study adopts questionnaire survey and literature review to investigate the parents status quo concerning the children's nutrition knowledge, nutrition attitude and nutrition behavior, and analysis of relationship between the children's parents' nutrition knowledge, nutrition attitude, nutrition behavior and the parents' gender, age, profession, standard of culture and the relationship between nutrition knowledge, attitude and behavior, analysis of the approach children's parents get nutrition knowledge finally form the conclusion and provide effective suggestions for children's parents to increase their nutrition knowledge, change the nutrition attitude and improve nutritional behavior.The findings of this research show that the overall condition of nutrition knowledge, attitude and behavior of parents in Anshan city is belonging to good grade. The nutrition knowledge, attitude and behavior of parents in Anshan city are significantly different due to their different age, occupations and education levels. Nutrition knowledge, nutrition attitude and nutrition behavior of children's parents reach correlation, and a positive correlation between each pair of them. Currently the mainly ways parents get nutrition knowledge are television, newspapers and magazines, kindergarten will play a major role which parents expect.Therefore, this study proposes the following suggestions: parents should make full use of television, radio, internet and other mass media resources and magazines, books and other resources to actively acquire about the children's nutrition knowledge; educational administrative departments should actively create a conducive social public opinion environment for children nutrition and health education, hold on a regular science lectures for children's nutrition and health and establish the community health education bulletin board to provide support for parents. Kindergarten should establish the concept of family-kindergarten cooperation, combined with the actual to carry out a various forms of family-kindergarten cooperation activities, in order to provide help for parents to improve health and nutrition knowledge level and shape good nutrition attitude and ultimately form scientific nutrition behavior. |
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