The analysis of nutritional knowledge,attitude and dietary behaviors of undergraduate students in Shihezi University

Objective To understand the status about nutritional knowledge,nutritional attitude and dietary behaviors of students in Shihezi University,in order to provide evidence for nutritional health education and other interventions.Methods A total of 1 728 students in Shihezi University were surveyed buy using a self-designed questionnaire.The data was analyzed by SPSS.Results The students accounting for 67.0% were short of essential nutrition knowledge.The scores of nutritional knowledge differed from gender,specialty students and they were statistically significant.92.9% of boys and 97.3% of girls held positive nutritional attitude regarding that nutrition was very important.As to dietary behavior,the students to have breakfast every day were accounted for 59.5%,students to drink milk every day only for 7.5% and only 24.9% of students did not have eating snack habits.Conclusion The majority of students lack nutritional knowledge and have some unhealthy dietary behavior.The nutritional education should be implemented to the students.