Affiliation:
1. Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Hengyang Medical School, University of South China
2. Hengyang center for disease control and prevention
Abstract
Abstract
Background
Nutrition is an important issue to ensure growth and development. Nutritional knowledge is one of the factors affecting the eating habits and maintaining the healthy life. However, nutritional knowledge and life practices of medical students in Hengyang have not been studied.
Methods
A self-reported questionnaire was administered to 550 students, ranging in age from 18–23 years. Medical students from the University of South China (270 men and 280 women) participated in this research. SPSS 20.0 was used to analyze the experimental data, one way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used for the comparison between groups, and p < 0.01 was considered statistically significant. Frequency distributions and Chi-square analyses were conducted, and a p value less than 0.01 was considered statistically significant.
Results
Our results showed that 71.45% of students had a normal BMI and 2.18% of students were underweight, with an increased prevalence of overweight and obesity. Even though students understand the importance of taking nutritional balanced food, whereas only a small number of students take it into consideration when they are selecting food.
Publisher
Research Square Platform LLC
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