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KMID : 0665219920050020116
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Korean Journal of Food and Nutrition
1992 Volume.5 No. 2 p.116 ~ p.122
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Differences in Nutrition Knowledge and Food Habits between Nutrition Major College Women and Non-Major College Women
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This survey was carried out to investigate the effect of self-consciousness of nutrition knowledge and health on the nutrition knowledge and on food habits between two groups of college women, a nutrition majors and a non-majors. Questionnaries were completed by 214 nutrition majors and by 145 nutrition non-major. Nutrition majors group scored significantly higher than nutrition non-majors in the nutrition knowledge. And nutrition non-majors scored signifiantly higher than nutrition majors in the food habits. Most of the subjects belonged to ´Fair´ and ´Poor´ food habit group. And also there was a significant correlation between the nutrition knowledge score and food habits score in nutrition majors and non-majors. There was a significant and positive correlation between nutrition knowledge score and food habits score in majors but it was not observed in non-majors. The higher majors had a self-consciousness of nutrition knowledge, the higher they had habit score and nutrition knowledge score, but in non-majors it was not observed. And non-majors who had a self-consciousness of health were healthier, they were higher in the food habits scores than the majors. The main curriculum it is important for a good food habits that one has a responsible nutrition education in main curriculum. For the improvement of nutrition education program we should transmit the nutritional information through an effective mass media (i.e. Radio, TV, Newspaper).
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