Comparative study on growing status and nutrition and food safety knowledge, attitude and practice of rural left-behind children and non-left-behind children-based on empirical research among rural pupils in Hunan Province and Shanxi Province
TAN Tian, YANG Liu, LIU Li, LI Jie, PENG Ya-la
School of Agriculture Economics and Rural Development, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872,China
Abstract：Objective To compare the current status of growth as well as nutrition and food safety knowledge, attitude and practice between the left-behind children and the non-left-behind children in the rural areas in Hunan and Shanxi provinces so as to provide a basis for the relevant administrative departments to formulate intervention measures for the left-behind children’s healthy growing up. Methods The questionnaire was designed based on a large number of references. A simple and stratified random sampling method was used to select 1,026 pupils of grades 3-6 in the rural areas of Hunan and Shanxi provinces in 2015. The questionnaire survey was conducted under the on-site guidance of the researchers. t-test and χ2 test were used to analyze the differences in the growing status as well as nutrition and food safety knowledge, attitude and practice between the left-behind children and the non-left-behind children. Results The proportion of malnutrition was significantly higher in the surveyed left-behind children than in the non-left-behind children (19.37% vs. 16.32%, P<0.05). The eating behavior of the left-behind children was inferior to that of the non-left-behind children. 18.1% of the left-behind children and 9.4% of the non-left-behind children ate snacks instead of a meal. 16.6% of the left-behind children and 32.3% of the non-left-behind children had a good habit of drinking water, and the drinking habits of the left-behind children were more unscientific (P<0.05). The left-behind and the non-left-behind children both liked eating snacks and preferred the restricted snacks, but no statistically significant differences were found in the eating frequency and snack preference between them (both P>0.05). The amount of money for the purchase of snacks was significantly higher in the left behind-children than in the non-left-behind children, and the proportions of daily pocket money more than 2 RMB in the left-behind and the non-left-behind children were 19.6% and 11.1% respectively (P<0.05). They both lacked the awareness of food safety. The personal hygiene habits of the left-behind children were inferior to those of the non-behind-children. The average score of food safety and nutrition awareness was significantly lower in the left-behind children than in the non-left-behind children (53.84 vs. 58.14); moreover, the left-behind children’s attitude towards nutrition was significantly poorer than that of the non-left-behind children (P<0.05). Conclusions The current status of growth and nutrition and food safety knowledge, attitude and practice of the left-behind children in the rural areas in Hunan and Shanxi provinces is poor. The results suggest that schools should enhance the related education for the left-behind children so as to make up for the lack of family custody.
谈甜, 杨柳, 刘莉, 李杰, 彭亚拉. 农村留守与非留守儿童生长状况及营养与食品安全KAP比较研究-基于对湖南、山西两省农村地区小学生的实证分析[J]. 实用预防医学, 2017, 24(8): 1012-1016.
TAN Tian, YANG Liu, LIU Li, LI Jie, PENG Ya-la. Comparative study on growing status and nutrition and food safety knowledge, attitude and practice of rural left-behind children and non-left-behind children-based on empirical research among rural pupils in Hunan Province and Shanxi Province. , 2017, 24(8): 1012-1016.
2017, Vol. 24 
