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http://dx.doi.org/10.17495/easdl.2015.2.25.1.12

Survey on Nutrition Knowledge, Food Behaviors, and Food Frequency of Sodium Intake in Korean University Students  

Pak, Hee-Ok (Dept. of Food and Nutrition, Gachon University)
Hong, Myung-Sun (Dept. of Global Healthcare Management, Gachon University)
Sohn, Chun-Young (Dept. of Food and Nutrition, DongNam Health University)
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Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life / v.25, no.1, 2015 , pp. 12-19 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was performed for the purpose of establishing proper dietary behaviors and improving sodium intake status by investigating nutrition knowledge, dietary behaviors, and food intake frequency related to sodium in 398 university students living in Gyeonggi-do and Incheon. Female students showed a higher rate of eating out more than five times a week as well as daily snack intake than male students. Female students showed a higher score for sodium-related nutrition knowledge than male students, whereas male students showed higher sodium intake than female students. Subjects who showed a higher frequency of eating out and snack intake also showed a higher salt intake ratio and sodium-related nutrition knowledge. Subjects with higher scores related to sodium-related nutrition knowledge showed a higher low salt intake ratio and incidence of low sodium food intake. From this research, depending on the level of nutrition knowledge related to sodium university students showed differences in dietary behavior related to sodium intake. This result would be helpful to develop lower sodium training materials specific to low sodium food selection tips, reading nutrition labels, and so on.
Keywords
Nutrition knowledge; food behaviors; food frequency questionnaire; sodium;
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