ANALYSIS OF NUTRITIONAL KAP AMONG STUDENTS OF CLINICAL MEDICINE

[Objective] To study nutrition knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) of students in clinical medicince, and to provide a scientific basis for the college to develop a scientific and rational nutrition curriculum and the implementation of effective nutrition interventions. [Methods] A cluster sample of 1 220 students received the self-designed questionnaire survey about nutritional KAP. [Results] The average score of nutritional knowledge, attitude and practice were 14.1±4.6, 5.7±2.8 and 12.5±1.5 respectively. The average score of the female and urban strudents was better than it of male and rural students. The results of multiple liner regression analysis indicated that gender, origin and literacy had a relation with nutritional knowledge. Nutritional knowledge was obtained by TV (52.3%), newspapers or magazines (44.5%) and network (25.1%), but they hope to get the knowledge by TV (67.8%), lectures (60.5%) and network (54.2%). [Conclusion] Nutrition knowledge is generally low among clinical medical students, but they have a positive attitude. Effective nutritional education should be carried out to improve their nutritional knowledge and provide support for forming the concept of rational nutrition.