Influence of childhood left-behind experience on college students’ knowledge,attitude and practice regarding nutrition and food safety
HE Meng-ru1,2, LI Rui1, TANG Jie-lin1, YAN Zheng-li1, FU Hu1, ZHU Yong-fei1, LIU Qiang1
1. School of Medicine, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410013, China; 2. Huaxi School of Public Health, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China
Abstract:Objective To investigate the influence of childhood left-behind experience on college students’ knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) of nutrition and food safety in a key university in Hunan province. Methods A cluster sampling based on taking the class as a unit was conducted to select students from 12 classes of the university. A self-designed questionnaire was used to survey the students’ KAP of nutrition and food safety, and then, a one-month intervention was performed among them in the following week. The second survey was conducted after the one-month intervention period. Chi-square test was used to analyze and compare the awareness of KAP of nutrition and food safety before and after the intervention between students with and without childhood left-behind experience. Results No statistically significant difference was found in the awareness rate of knowledge before the intervention between the groups with and without childhood left-behind experience (P>0.05). After the intervention, the awareness rates of knowledge about vitamins that promoted calcium absorption, use of food additives, and poisoning caused by unboiled soymilk in students with childhood left-behind experience were all lower than those of students without childhood left-behind experience (69.4% vs. 80.8%, 82.3% vs. 91.6%, 74.2% vs. 86.1%, all P<0.05). Before the intervention, the ratesof scoring 3 and more points in attitudes towards “the food of roadside stalls”, “no thirsty, no water”, and “current status of food safety” in students with childhood left-behind experience were inferior to those in students without childhood left-behind experience (42.2% vs. 58.1%, 87.5% vs. 96.8% 45.3% vs. 52.2%, all P<0.05), but no statistically significant differences were found after the intervention (all P>0.05). Before the intervention, a comparison of behaviors regarding nutrition and food safety of students with and without childhood left-behind experience showed no statistically significant differences (P>0.05). After the intervention, the rate of scoring 3 points and above in behavior regarding “identification of the food shelf life” in students without childhood left-behind experience was superior to that in students with childhood left-behind experience (65.6% vs. 46.8%, P<0.05). Conclusions The effect of intervention on some knowledge and behaviors regarding nutrition and food safety in the college students is poor due to their childhood left-behind experience, but their attitudes change significantly after the intervention.
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HE Meng-ru, LI Rui, TANG Jie-lin, YAN Zheng-li, FU Hu, ZHU Yong-fei, LIU Qiang. Influence of childhood left-behind experience on college students’ knowledge,attitude and practice regarding nutrition and food safety. , 2020, 27(2): 171-175.