A Study on the Influential factors of Vegetable ＆ Fruit Intake Behavior Among the Students of the Chung-Li Junior-High School,Taoyuan,Taiwan

• Main Authors: Su-Mei Ho, 何素梅
• Other Authors: 呂昌明
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/03138824746680829560

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 衛生教育學系在職進修碩士班 === 95 === The purpose of this study was to investigate the current vegetable & fruit intake behavior of junior high school students, and to examine the relationships between vegetable & fruit intake behavior and selected personal background characteristics, as well as knowledge, self-efficacy, outcome expectancy, perceived barriers, and social support. The study consisted of 429 subjects who were selected by stratified clustered sampling method from Chung-Li Junior High School in. Taoyuan, Taiwan. A questionnaire, developed by the author of the study, was used to gather data in Dec 2006. One-way ANOVA, t-test, Pearson,s product-moment correlation and Multiple Regression were used to analyze the data and results indicated as follow : 1.The subjects had good self-efficacy about vegetable & fruit intake. 2.The subjects had good outcome expectancy about vegetable & fruit intake. 3.The subjects, perceived barriers about vegetable & fruit intake was medium to low degree. 4.Within the social psychology factors, social support from family was higher than that from teachers and classmates. 5.The subjects about vegetable & fruit intake was within medium level . 6.The knowledge of the subjects about nutrition was within medium to high level. Female student,s score were higher than male students. 7.The subjects in personal background characteristics,「perceived health status」were significant different on self-efficacy, outcome expectancy, vegetable & fruit intake behavior. 8.The knowledge about vegetable & fruit intake behavior were highly correlated with nutrition knowledge, self-efficacy, outcome expectancy, social support, then negatively correlated with perceived barriers. 9.The variables including perceived health status, nutrition knowledge, self-efficacy, outcome expectancy, perceived barriers, social support explined 22.6％ total variance of vegetable & fruit intake behavior. In these variances, self-efficacy was the best predictor of vegetable & fruit intake behavior. Based on the results, this study suggests that school could guide the students to the correct dietary concept by teaching the vegetable & fruit intake behavior. In the future, in-depth study could be conducted in expanded areas in different seasons.