NUTRITION KAP SURVEY OF MEDICAL STUDENTS

[Objective] To understand the nutrition knowledge,attitude,behavior and nutritional status to identify problems and make recommendations for nutrition education and dietary guidance and provide a scientific basis.[Methods] To extract 635 students of clinical,nursing and medicine profession,including 226 males and 409 females.Among them,there were 89 were minority students.We performed investigation with nutritional KAP(knowledge,attitude,behavior) questionnaires.After verifying the investigation,we used statistical software SPSS13.0 to establish a database library and analyze data.The measurement data were analyzed by using t test and variance analysis,count data were analyzed by using the χ2 test.[Results] KAP survey results showed:the average score of nutritional knowledge among students were 31.5 ± 7.5,the basic nutrition knowledge scores was significantly higher than the food and nutrition knowledge,and disease nutritional knowledge(P﹤0.05);The nutrition knowledge score did not showed significantly difference in the Han and minority,but the urban was significantly higher than that of rural(P﹤0.05);The awareness of nutrition has shown good attitude.[Conclusion] The students have low knowledge of disease nutrition and food nutrition.But all of them have active attitude,and effective nutrition education showed be performed to improve the nutrition knowledge,guide daily dietary,and promote reasonable dietary,so that to provide basis for further dietary guide and nutritional knowledge popularization.