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Evaluation of nutrition literacy and nutrition knowledge level in nursing students: a study from Turkey

OBJECTIVE: The determination of nutritional knowledge and nutrition literacy among nursing students will enable nursing departments to establish the needs and solutions to enhance nutrition education in their education programs. Therefore, this study is aimed to evaluate the nutrition literacy and n...

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Autores principales: Mengi Çelik, Özge, Semerci, Remziye
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9758848/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36527062
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-022-01146-z
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description OBJECTIVE: The determination of nutritional knowledge and nutrition literacy among nursing students will enable nursing departments to establish the needs and solutions to enhance nutrition education in their education programs. Therefore, this study is aimed to evaluate the nutrition literacy and nutrition knowledge level of nursing students. METHOD: The study data were collected with ‘Information Form’, ‘Anthropometric Measurements’, ‘Nutrition Knowledge Level Scale for Adults’, and ‘Evaluation Instrument of Nutrition Literacy on Adults’. Analyzes were performed using descriptive and nonparametric tests. RESULTS: The score of nutrition knowledge is 56.6 ± 6.8 and 50.5% of them have a good nutrition knowledge level. The total nutrition literacy score is 28.6 ± 4.4 and 91.6% of them have a sufficient nutrition literacy level. It was no significant difference between students’ characteristic features and nutrition knowledge score and nutrition literacy total score (p > 0.05). There was a statistically significant positive correlation between the nutrition knowledge score and the nutrition literacy total score and the nutrition literacy sub-sections scores (p < 0.05). CONCLUSION: It has been determined that the nutrition knowledge and nutrition literacy levels of nursing students correlated with each other. To improve students’ nutrition knowledge levels, as well as to improve their nutrition literacy and prevent non-communicable diseases nutrition lessons should be included in the curriculum.
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spelling pubmed-97588482022-12-18 Evaluation of nutrition literacy and nutrition knowledge level in nursing students: a study from Turkey Mengi Çelik, Özge Semerci, Remziye BMC Nurs Research OBJECTIVE: The determination of nutritional knowledge and nutrition literacy among nursing students will enable nursing departments to establish the needs and solutions to enhance nutrition education in their education programs. Therefore, this study is aimed to evaluate the nutrition literacy and nutrition knowledge level of nursing students. METHOD: The study data were collected with ‘Information Form’, ‘Anthropometric Measurements’, ‘Nutrition Knowledge Level Scale for Adults’, and ‘Evaluation Instrument of Nutrition Literacy on Adults’. Analyzes were performed using descriptive and nonparametric tests. RESULTS: The score of nutrition knowledge is 56.6 ± 6.8 and 50.5% of them have a good nutrition knowledge level. The total nutrition literacy score is 28.6 ± 4.4 and 91.6% of them have a sufficient nutrition literacy level. It was no significant difference between students’ characteristic features and nutrition knowledge score and nutrition literacy total score (p > 0.05). There was a statistically significant positive correlation between the nutrition knowledge score and the nutrition literacy total score and the nutrition literacy sub-sections scores (p < 0.05). CONCLUSION: It has been determined that the nutrition knowledge and nutrition literacy levels of nursing students correlated with each other. To improve students’ nutrition knowledge levels, as well as to improve their nutrition literacy and prevent non-communicable diseases nutrition lessons should be included in the curriculum. BioMed Central 2022-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9758848/ /pubmed/36527062 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-022-01146-z Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9758848/
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