Nutrition literacy and factors associated with nutrition literacy in junior high school students in Maha Sarakham town municipality
Keywords:
Junior high school students, Related factorsAbstract
The objectives of this study were to study nutritional knowledge and to find factors related to nutritional literacy in junior high school students in Maha Sarakham town municipality. The research design was a cross-sectional study. The study sample consisted of 304 students selected using a stratified random sampling technique. Data were collected by using self-answered questionnaires. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and the relationship between factors and nutritional literacy was analyzed using multiple linear regression analysis.
The results showed that more than half of the participants (57.5%) had a low level of overall nutrition literacy. The results indicated that in 3 aspects of nutritional literacy, the participants had the low level of fundamental nutrition literacy, interactive nutrition literacy, and critical nutrition literacy at 61.8%, 57.2%, and 61.5%, respectively. Factors significantly related to overall nutrition literacy were sex (b = 7.75, p-value < 0.001), academic achievement (b = 10.15, p-value < 0.001), and food consumption behavior (b = 0.82, p-value < 0.001). Therefore, educational institutions or relevant agencies should provide teaching, and learning or finding processes to promote nutritional literacy among junior high school students.
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