The purpose of this study was to investigate the nutrition and diet related knowledge, attitude, and behavior of elementary school children in Seoul. The subjects included were 439 (male 236, female 203) elementary school children in the 4th to the 6th grades. The statistical analysis was conducted using SPSS 12.0 program. The average obesity index (OI) was 104.98 and 99.82 for male and female ...

The first International Congress of NLRCS, “Nutrition, from the Laboratory to Clinical Studies” was held on 6th - 8th September 2017, located in Mashhad University of Medical Sciences International Conference Center and was hosted by Mashhad University of Medical Sciences. The purpose of the congress was to bring together cellular and molecular researchers, nutritionists, physicians, experts i...

BACKGROUND The importance of canteen meals in the diet of many university students makes the provision of simple point-of-purchase (POP) nutrition information in university canteens a potentially effective way to promote healthier diets in an important group of young adults. However, modifications to environments such as the posting of POP nutrition information in canteens may not cause an imme...

This study sought to develop and validate a general nutrition knowledge questionnaire (GNKQ) for Ugandan adults. The initial draft consisted of 133 items on five constructs associated with nutrition knowledge; expert recommendations (16 items), food groups (70 items), selecting food (10 items), nutrition and disease relationship (23 items), and food fortification in Uganda (14 items). The quest...

To assess the effect of an antenatal nutrition programme designed specifically for the local population, questionnaires on nutrition knowledge, attitudes to healthier eating and 4 d diet diaries were completed by women attending routine antenatal clinics. Women who received the nutrition education programme were allocated into an Intervention Education Group whilst those women who did not were ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the efficacy of the Food and Agriculture Organization's global school-based nutrition education initiative, Feeding Minds, Fighting Hunger (FMFH), in improving nutrition-related knowledge levels of schoolchildren. DESIGN Adopting the cluster randomisation technique, five schools each in experimental and control groups were randomly chosen from the member schools of a volun...

Background: Kenya is undergoing rapid urbanization resulting in changing lifestyles. Childhood dietary habits are changing and might result in childhood obesity and related health risks. Dietary habits learnt in early life are likely to be carried to adulthood. Nutrition knowledge and positive attitude are known to influence dietary practices. There is paucity of information on nutrition knowle...

Background and Objectives: Regarding the high prevalence of unhealthy food habits among Iranian children, we aimed to assess the effect of a school-based nutrition education program on nutritional status of primary school students in Shiraz. Materials and Methods: This randomized educational controlled trial was carried out on 221 primary school age children selected by cluster sampling in t...

This article was acceptedfor publication janumy 19, 1996 I n this era of information explosion, decreasing time availability, and faculty shortages, computer-assisted instruction (CAl) could be a useful resource in making occupational therapy education more contemporary and future oriented. Computer-based instruction accelerates learning (Bolwel1, 1993; Hmelo, 1989) and is cost-effective (Bolwe...