Investigation of nutrition KAP among nursing medical students

Objective: Study the recent situation of nutrition knowledge,attitude and practice( KAP) of nursing medical students,and provide scientific evidences for developing nutrition education programs. Methods: A random cluster sampling method was adopted among 701 students of three grades. They received the self-designed questionnaire survey about nutritional KAP. Results: The scores of nutritional knowledge,attitude and practice were( 20. 92 ± 5. 98),( 5. 26 ± 0. 85) and( 5. 26 ± 1. 57) respectively. The scores of the seniors and urban students were higher than the lower grades and rural students( P 0. 05). There were positive correlations among nutritional knowledge,attitude and practice( P 0. 01). Conclusion: Nutrition knowledge is unbalanced among the nursing medical students,but they have a positive attitude. Effective and targeted nutritional intervention should be carried out to improve their nutritional knowledge. Unhealthy eating habits should be changed in order to provide support for effective development of clinical nursing work.