Vitamin use and beliefs among students at a Malaysian university
QUESTIONNAIRE was administered in class to a sample of physical education students at a Malaysian University in order to determine their beliefs and use patterns regarding vitamin supplemen tation. About a quarter of the subjects (24.6%) had practised vitamin supplementation for the past two years p...
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| description | QUESTIONNAIRE was administered in class to a sample of physical education students at a Malaysian University in order to determine their beliefs and use patterns regarding vitamin supplemen tation. About a quarter of the subjects (24.6%) had practised vitamin supplementation for the past two years prior to the study, 14.9% of them being females as opposed to only 9.7% males. The most frequently used vitamin supplements, in rank order, were multivi tamins (used by 57.6%), vitamin C (24.2%), the B-Complex vitamins (9.1%), and vitamin E (6.1%). Among vitamin supplementeers, the most frequently cited reasons for using vitamin supplements, in rank order, were 'to supplement the daily diet' (33.3%), 'to prevent colds' (27.3%), and 'to prevent fatigue or lethargy' (21.2%). Among non-supplementeers, the three reasons most frequently mentioned for not using vitamin supplements were 'vitamin needs are ade quately supplied by daily meals' (50.5%), 'I am healthy enough and therefore I do not need extra vitamins' (27.2%), and 'fear of insidious side effects' (9.9%). In general, both supplementeers and non-supple menteers tended to beheve in the purported health benefits of vitamin supplementation. However, on the whole, supplementeers were willing to change their supplementation habits. |
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| spelling | upm-1155002025-03-06T02:51:39Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/115500/ Vitamin use and beliefs among students at a Malaysian university Yong, Mazlan Bin QUESTIONNAIRE was administered in class to a sample of physical education students at a Malaysian University in order to determine their beliefs and use patterns regarding vitamin supplemen tation. About a quarter of the subjects (24.6%) had practised vitamin supplementation for the past two years prior to the study, 14.9% of them being females as opposed to only 9.7% males. The most frequently used vitamin supplements, in rank order, were multivi tamins (used by 57.6%), vitamin C (24.2%), the B-Complex vitamins (9.1%), and vitamin E (6.1%). Among vitamin supplementeers, the most frequently cited reasons for using vitamin supplements, in rank order, were 'to supplement the daily diet' (33.3%), 'to prevent colds' (27.3%), and 'to prevent fatigue or lethargy' (21.2%). Among non-supplementeers, the three reasons most frequently mentioned for not using vitamin supplements were 'vitamin needs are ade quately supplied by daily meals' (50.5%), 'I am healthy enough and therefore I do not need extra vitamins' (27.2%), and 'fear of insidious side effects' (9.9%). In general, both supplementeers and non-supple menteers tended to beheve in the purported health benefits of vitamin supplementation. However, on the whole, supplementeers were willing to change their supplementation habits. SAGE Publications 1990 Article PeerReviewed Yong, Mazlan Bin (1990) Vitamin use and beliefs among students at a Malaysian university. The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, 110 (4). pp. 132-134. ISSN 1466-4240; eISSN: 1466-4240 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/146642409011000407 10.1177/146642409011000407 |
| spellingShingle | Yong, Mazlan Bin Vitamin use and beliefs among students at a Malaysian university |
| title | Vitamin use and beliefs among students at a Malaysian university |
| title_full | Vitamin use and beliefs among students at a Malaysian university |
| title_fullStr | Vitamin use and beliefs among students at a Malaysian university |
| title_full_unstemmed | Vitamin use and beliefs among students at a Malaysian university |
| title_short | Vitamin use and beliefs among students at a Malaysian university |
| title_sort | vitamin use and beliefs among students at a malaysian university |
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