Pub Date : 2008-12-01DOI: 10.6288/TJPH2008-27-06-08
Hui-Hsin Chen, Wei Lin, L. Chou
Objectives: To understand the current status and factors related to nutritional knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors among high school students in Taiwan. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out using nationally representative subjects from Taiwan. Questionnaires assessing knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding food and nutrition were administered to 2777 students in grades eight and eleven. The students were obtained from fifteen junior high schools, six senior high schools, six vocational schools, and four five-year colleges using a multistage-stratified sampling method. Descriptive analysis, Pearson correlation, and linear regression were used to analyze the data. Results: The correct or positive response rates for nutritional knowledge, attitude, and behavior scales were 49.7%, 69.0%, and 56.5%, respectively. More than half of the adolescents expected to be thin and had tried to lose weight. 88.7% of the adolescents surveyed had never attended a food or nutrition-related course. These students scored significantly lower in nutritional knowledge, held less positive attitudes, and performed worse on the behavior scale than those who had attended nutrition-related courses. The influence of family factors on nutritional knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors among Taiwanese adolescents was as important as demographic variables. Grade, metropolitan area (vs. rural townships), parental control, family communication, and attitude were found to be direct and modest determinants of nutritional behavior in this study. Sex, BMI, and parents’ SES were related with attitudes that predict behavior. Conclusions: Nutrition-related courses designed to improve dietary behaviors of adolescents should emphasize attitudes throughout the school system. In addition, families should take a more active role in improving their relations with children.
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Pub Date : 2005-04-01DOI: 10.6288/TJPH2005-24-02-03
劉潔心, 楊智琳, 陳合如, 林怡君
Objectives: This study aimed to explore the manipulation of effective community intervention strategies for action-taking ability of community members in diabetes prevention . This is a two-year study. The results of the first year study have been published. In the second year, the study focuses on developing and implementing the community diabetes prevention program. This article presents the process and achievements of the second year of the study. Methods: For the development of a diabetes prevention program, the researcher selected a core community organization as the intervention point of a partnership, and then collectively developed a diabetes prevention program that met the needs of the community members. Results: l. For the intervention results of empowerment of the core community organization, it was that it was difficult to host a comprehensive community activity. This indicates that volunteers have a better sense of belonging towards the basic unit of city administration than that of the community health building center. 2. In the evaluation of other community members, nearly 85% of the interviewed community members indicated that they have never heard of the community health building center, for the half of the community members who had heard about the center, they indicated that they didn't know the location or anything about the services of the community health building center . This result indicates that there is still great room for the community health building center to progress in promoting total community diabetes prevention tasks. Conclusions: In regard to further promoting the diabetes prevention intervention in the community, emphasis should be placed on strengthening the community organization alliances using the community empowerment principle. When the core community organization has developed the adequate competence, it will then be the right time to promote a comprehensive intervention in the community. Also, when the community organizations are not ready for demonstrating effective mechanisms of leadership, communication, organizational climate, and member participation, it is more efficient and effective to choose a school settings as the intervention point of building a partnership.
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Pub Date : 1999-01-01DOI: 10.6288/CJPH1999-18-04-05
M. R. Lin, K. Yao, J. Hwang, Jung-Der Wang
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