Nutritional Knowledge and Attitude of the Students in College in Lanzhou

Objective To understand the status of nutritional knowledge and attitude of the students in colleges in Lanzhou,and to provide scientific evidence for the nutritional knowledge.Methods A cluster sample of 664 students received the self-designed questionnaire survey about nutritional knowledge and attitude.Results The average scores of nutritional knowledge and attitude were 31.3±7.6 and 12.9±2.8 respectively.The average score of the female,urban and medical specialty was better than it of male,rural and students of other specialty.Nutritional knowledge was positively correlated with attitude(r=0.3,P0.001).The results of multiple liner regression analysis indicated that gender,origin and specialty had a relation with nutritional knowledge.Most of the students had desire to understand how to formulate daily recipes(54.8%),how to prevent the malnutrition(38.1%),how to correctly cook(28.3%)and knowledge of food hygiene(24.4%).At present,nutritional knowledge was obtained by newspaper or books(75.8%)and TV(56.0%),but they hope to get the knowledge by newspaper or books(61.1%)and lectures or consultations(52.3%).Conclusion College students in Lanzhou are deficient in nutritional knowledge.Effective nutritional education should be carried out to improve the knowledge and provide support for forming healthy behaviors.