Nutritional Knowledge and Attitude of the Students in Shenyang Medical College

Objective:To understand calcium nutritional knowledge,attitude of students in Shenyang Medical College,and to provide scientific evidence for the nutritional education.Methods:A cluster sample of 818 students received the self-designed questionnaire survey about calcium nutritional knowledge and attitude.Results:The average scores of calcium nutritional knowledge and attitude were 18.3±2.7 and 13.1±1.8 respectively.The average score of the female was better than of the male.The higher the degree of precious education,the better the students' records was found.Calcium nutritional knowledgewas positively correlated with attitude(r=0.2,P0.001).The results of multiple liner regression analysis indicated that gender,grade and specialty had a relation with calcium nutritional knowledge.Most of the students had desire to understand effects calcium and health(78.1%).At present,calcium nutritional knowledge was obtained by newspaper or books(65.8%) and teaching(62.0%),but they hope to get the knowledge via teaching(61.1%)and lectures(52.3%).Conclusion:College students in Shenyang Medical College are deficient in nutritional knowledge.Effective nutritional education should be carried out to improve the knowledge and provide support for forming healthy behaviors.