Nutritional knowledge and behavior of adults: Their relations with sociodemographic factors

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dc.contributor.authorHakli G.
dc.contributor.authorAsil E.
dc.contributor.authorUçar A.
dc.contributor.authorÖzdogan Y.
dc.contributor.authorYilmaz M.V.
dc.contributor.authorÖzçelik A.Ö.
dc.contributor.authorSürücüoğlu M.S.
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-26T19:32:02Z
dc.date.available2020-03-26T19:32:02Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.departmentSelçuk Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractThis cross-sectional study was carried out for the purpose of investigating the factors affecting nutritional knowledge and behaviors of adults and the relation between nutritional knowledge and these behaviors. The study population consisted of 1062 adults aged 18-65 who presented to health care centers (mean age was 37.6±11.7 years). Data was collected through a questionnaire. In both score types, participants with undergraduate and graduate degrees and the employed got the highest scores. The difference between the mean knowledge score according to age (p<0.05) and educational status (p<0.01) was significant. The difference in the mean knowledge score on educational status resulted from the gap between those who were illiterate and who received university education and higher education, for the age group of 18-29 year old. With respect to behavioral scores, the differences between gender, marital status, age, employment status and educational status were significant (p<0.01). The group that caused the difference in marital status was the single ones, in the age groups of 18-29 years and ?50 year old and the difference in educational status resulted from the illiterate and from those with university degrees and higher education. It was also found that there was a significant positive relationship between the nutritional knowledge score and the behavior score (r = 0.248, p<0.01). The results of the study revealed that the more adults’ ages and educational status increased, the more nutritional knowledge level they had; also gender, age, educational status, employment status and marital status affected adults’ positive nutritional behaviors. © Asian Network for Scientific Information, 2016.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.3923/pjn.2016.532.539en_US
dc.identifier.endpage539en_US
dc.identifier.issn1680-5194en_US
dc.identifier.issue6en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityN/Aen_US
dc.identifier.startpage532en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://dx.doi.org/10.3923/pjn.2016.532.539
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12395/34294
dc.identifier.volume15en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAsian Network for Scientific Informationen_US
dc.relation.ispartofPakistan Journal of Nutritionen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.selcuk20240510_oaigen_US
dc.subjectAdulten_US
dc.subjectBehavioren_US
dc.subjectKnowledgeen_US
dc.subjectNutritionen_US
dc.titleNutritional knowledge and behavior of adults: Their relations with sociodemographic factorsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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