Effects of Healthy Meal Intervention on Nutritional Knowledge of College Students

• Main Authors: Shao-Yi Peng, 彭紹珆
• Other Authors: Shene-Pin Hu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/63306755958983088263

碩士 === 臺北醫學大學 === 保健營養學系 === 93 === The study investigated the effect on healthy meal awareness and nutritional knowledge of college students with the manners of the campus cafeteria introducing healthy meals within National Chengchi University as an environmental nutritional intervention. Before the intervention (n=710), questionnaires were used for daily dietary intakes, frequency of eating high-calorie foods, and current nutritional knowledge of college students. For those who involved in the intervention (n=148), post-intervention questionnaire was proceeded. The results revealed 87.2% of college students (n=612) took fewer than 3 servings of grains, where 17.4% (n=124) took more than 4 servings of meat and 85.9% (n=602) took fewer than 3 servings of vegetables. During a week sweetened drinks were the most-taken, high-in-calorie food, and others, in sequence, were candies, greasy foods, cookies, cakes and instant noodles. The average score of nutritional knowledge was 10.6±2.3, 10.4±2.5 for males (n=323) and 10.8±2.2 for females (n=387), indicating nutritional knowledge of females was significantly higher than that of males. With the environmental nutritional intervention, the average score increased for all students (from 10.96±1.99 to 11.35±1.78, P＜0.001). The percentage lowered from 39.2%（n=58） to 16.2%（n=24） for those did not aware of healthy meals after the intervention. The students who had tried healthy meals after the intervention thought the benefits of the meal were less greasy, known calories and light.