Perception and Consumption of Eat-Clean Diet in Undergraduate Students between Health Sciences and Social Sciences at Khon Kaen University

Abstract

Eat–clean diet has been widely distributed on the internet that
is one of the factor that affect consumption behavior of adolescents. This
research was carried out in undergraduate students, 120 persons per
group, in order to compare perception and consumption of eat–clean diet
between public health students and business administration (hotel and
event management) students, Khon Kaen university. The data was collected
by using the questionnaire. The results of the study found that public
health students and hotel and event management students had eat-clean
diet 17.5% and 27.5% respectively that it was insignificantly (p-value= 0.0636).
They received information about eat-clean diet from social medias such
as facebook, twitter, etc. 23.4% and 26.5% respectively. Four topics of
perception about eat-clean diet ( meaning of eat-clean diet, benefits of
eat-clean diet, kind of eat-clean diet and barrier consumption of eatclean diet) were insignificantly (p-value>0.05). The meaning of eat-clean
diet, the benefits of eat-clean diet and the kind of eat-clean diet were
high level of perception in both groups. The barrier consumption of eatclean diet was medium level of perception in both groups. The frequency
of consumption of eat-clean diet of public health students was more
often than hotel and event management students.
So, nutrition promotion for health food or eat-clean diet are
essential in university student for changing consumption behavior to reduce
non-communicable chronic disease in the future.