Romainor, Nurain Farhana (2020) Knowledge, attitude and practice of nutrition and family planning and its association with body weight status among undergraduate students in Universiti Putra Malaysia. [Project Paper] (Submitted)
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Abstract
Overweight and obesity has always been a challenging issue among young adults with reproductive age in university. As overweight and obesity position them in numerous multiple chronic diseases and complications. There are several factors that were found to contribute to body weight status among young adults. However, contradicting findings were observed in the local context. Hence, this cross-sectional study aimed to determine the association between socio-demographic factors, knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) of nutrition and family planning and weight status of undergraduate students in Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). A set of pretested, self-administered questionnaire that assess the socio-demographic background, KAP of nutrition and family planning as well as anthropometry measurement was used to collect relevant information from students in UPM. A total of 141 students that was dominant by female (75.9%) with mean age of 21.64 ±1.41 years old, from 3 selected faculties in UPM were recruited to take part in this study. Majority of them are Malay, second year student with the median of monthly allowance of RM400. A total of 56.7% of the respondents have normal Body Mass Index (BMI), 22.7% were underweight and 15.6% and 5.0% were overweight and obese respectively. Majority of the students had adequate knowledge (74.4%), positive attitude (95.7%) and good practice (67.3%) towards nutrition. However, regarding the KAP of family planning, generally respondents from this study had poor to moderate knowledge towards family planning and approximately 97 out of 141 respondents have moderately positive attitude towards family planning. A positive association of age (r=0.189, p<0.05) with BMI were found. Findings from this study found that the prevalence of x overweight and obesity among the respondents is still there among the students despite their acceptable KAP score in nutrition.
| Item Type: | Project Paper |
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| Faculty: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Science |
| Depositing User: | Ms Norafizah Radzuan |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Sep 2023 02:58 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2023 02:58 |
| URI: | http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/1258 |
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