PENGETAHUAN, SIKAP DAN AMALAN GOLONGAN TERPILIH TERHADAP PEMAKANAN UNTUK KESIHATAN
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1999-03
Authors
ONG, CHOON KIM
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This exploratory study attempts to assess the student teachers' and nurses'
knowledge, attitudes and practices towards healthy eating, in view of the Healthy Eating
Campaign (1997) which aims to create awareness, increase knowledge and promote
healthy living is still on~going through the contemporary mass media. The healthy eating
aspects involved in this research is the understanding of concepts, practices of desired
eating habits, modification of diets, maintaineace of the ideal body weight, labelling of
food and the preparation of healthy food choices at the eating places.
It also aims to ascertain whether there are differences in knowledge, attitudes and
practices towards healthy eating among young adults specializing in the field of
education and nursing. Besides these, it also determines the various mass media used by
the students for information on healthy eating. Five research questions were formulated
and a survey was carried out to collect empirical data. A questionnaire was administered
on 100 student teachers and 100 student nurses. The findings obtained are as follow:
1. Majority of the student teachers and nurses received information about healthy
eating mostly from the television, newspapers and pamphlets. Amongst the mass
media, information from the television aided them the most in making food
choices. However, most of them chose pamphlets as the source for reference on
healthy eating.
11. The student teachers' knowledge towards healthy eating is good with the
percentage mean score of78.7 %. The comprehension of the concepts aspect has
the highest percentage mean score while the practices of desired eating habits
aspect obtained the lowest.
111. The attitudes of the students towards their own health and foods which are
detrimental to health, their practices and involvement in healthy eating is
generally good and encouraging towards a healthy lifestyle.
IV. Generally the students showed high involvement and positive practices towards
healthy eating. However, involvement in sports and exercises were less
encouraging. Only 40.0 % of them exercised or were involved in sport activities
at least three times a week with a minimum duration of 20 - 30 minutes per
session.
v. There are no significant differences between knowledge, attitudes and practices
and the students' field of professional training towards healthy eating.
The study concludes that knowledge on healthy eating influenced the student
teachers' and nurses' attitudes to reduce unhealthy practices for the achievement of
optimum health.
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PENGETAHUAN , SIKAP DAN AMALAN