A Study On The Dietary Intake And Knowledge-attitude-practice On Nutrition Among One Of Changsha City Military University Students

OBJECTIVEThe purpose of this study is to investigate and analyze the dietary intake and knowledge-attitude-practice on nutrition among military university students,in order to find out the existing problems of cadets' nutritional status in Hunan Province;to guide the military students keeping balance diet and promote their nutritional status;to provide useful information and suggestions for military university to make the menu more healthy for those students.METHODS200 male students were selected from grade one and grade three to participate in the dietary survey by cluster random sampling.Weighting method and 24 hour recall were used to record the food intake for three days.One team was chosen randomly from grade one to grade four as the cluster unit.400 male students were involved in the nutrition knowledge-attitude-practice questionnaires investigation.RESULTS â‘ The dietary composition intake for freshmen is 2403g.Including frumentum 32.4%,vegetables and fruit 38.6%,birds and beasts 16.1%, milchigs and soyas 8.4%,fat 3.9%.energy 3748.5kcal.The distribution of heat energy in breakfast,Chinese meal and supper is 21.5%,40.0%and 38.5%.The dietary composition intake for junior is 2289g.Including frumentum31.8%g,vegetables and fruit34.2%,birds and beasts20.9%, milchigs and soyas 8.8%,fat 4.3%.energy3681.4kcal.The distribution of heat energy in breakfast,Chinese meal and supper is 18.8%,42.7% and 38.5%.â‘¡The nutriment's intake for freshman is protein 146.1g.Ca 656mg,Fe 14.0mg,VitaminA776μgRE,VitaminB₁1.45, VitaminB₂1.28mg,VitaminC114mg,VitaminPP19.6mg.The nutriment's intake for junior is protein 177.3±68.1g,Ca 574±332mg,Fe 14.4±6.Smg,VitaminA731.5±215.3μgRE,VitaminB₁1.4±0.64mg, VitaminB₂1.19±0.54mg,VitaminC70.8±32.2mg,VitaminPP15.9±10.8m.â‘¢The troph-knowledge is 14.10±2.60 and the rate of question is 70.49±13.01.More than 90%of the students agreed that "nutrition be closely related to people's health"."nutrition education should be a part of the health education of army students" and "Will change the unhealthy dietary behaviors".However,only 75.8%of the students would like to participate in the lectures about nutritional knowledge.The independent samples t-test and correlation analysis results showed that the nutritional knowledge was significantly related to the attitude and practice towards nutrition(p＜0.05). and Ca,Fe is lower.The rate of carbohydrate and breakfast food is lower too.But the source of protein and fat is good and the content of cellulose and cholesterol is proper.The nutritional knowledge of army students was limited.Even most of their attitudes toward nutrition were positive;some unhealthy dietary behavior still existed.It suggested that the nutrition knowledge of army students need to be improved,as well as their dietary behaviors.Nutrition knowledge lectures and nutrition education are necessary to be enhanced to promote their nutritional status and diet healthier.