| Summary: | 碩士 === 靜宜大學 === 食品營養學系 === 100 === The Daily Food Guide (DFG) for Taiwanese in 1995 has been promoted for more than 15 years. However, the degree of cognition and compliance toward the DFG among college students remains unclear. The purpose of this study was to investigate the cognitive ability toward DFG, dietary intake pattern, and relationship between nutrition knowledge, attitude and eating behavior among college students; in addition to examine the association between cognitive ability toward DFG and the compliance of implementing it. A self-designed questionnaire was developed in order to measure students’ nutrition knowledge, attitude, and pattern of food intake. There were 362 participants in this study; including 49 nutrition-majored and 313 non-nutrition-majored students. For both knowledge and attitude, the nutrition-majored students were performed better than non-nutrition-majored ones (p<0.01). Several unhealthy eating behaviors, such as “eating out”, “snacking”, “sweetened beverages drinking”, and “fried foods eating”, were found to be relatively common for all students. The cognitive ability toward the DFG was higher for nutrition-majored students, which implied that nutrition courses might play an important role in prompting the DFG. The consumption for all six food categories from the DFG were reported below the DFG recommendation for all students, especially in the category of “dairy products” and “fruits”. However, the degree of below the recommendation among the nutrition-majored students was lower than non-nutrition-majored ones. Among the nutrition knowledge, attitude and eating behavior, any two variables were significantly positive correlated (p＜0.01). The nutrition knowledge of female students was significantly better than male ones (p <0.05). The dairy products and grains intake were below the DFG recommendation for all students with female significantly lower than male (p <0.05; p <0.001 ). The intake of "egg、bean、fish and meats", "grains" and "oil and fat" in compliance with the DFG recommendation was associated with nutrition knowledge (p <0.001; p <0.05; p <0.001), and the intake of "vegetables" and "fruits" was associated with nutrition attitude (p<0.001; p <0.01).
In addition, the degree of cognition and compliance toward DFG, the score of nutrition knowledge, and the attitudes for nutrition-majored students were found to be better than non-nutrition-majored ones. Overall spealcing, nutrition knowledge and healthy eating attitude were two important factors in influencing the degree of cognition and compliance toward DFG. Thus, having enhanced nutrition education programs and providing proper nutrition sources may have positive effects on implementing nutrition knowledge such as “Daily Food Guide” for college students.
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