Knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding functional foods among students in Universiti Sains Malaysia
Functional foods can be regarded as food that satisfactorily acted to give advantageous effect on one or more target functions in the body. Knowledge, attitude and practices were shown to have an effect on the university perceptions regarding the functional foods consumption. This cross-sectional s...
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| Format: | Monograph |
| Language: | English |
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
2016
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/62319/ http://eprints.usm.my/62319/1/NURUL%20AIN%20BASIRAH%20BT%20MOHD%20SALLEH%20-%20e.pdf |
| Summary: | Functional foods can be regarded as food that satisfactorily acted to give advantageous effect on one or more target functions in the body. Knowledge, attitude and practices were shown to have an effect on the university perceptions regarding the functional foods
consumption. This cross-sectional study aimed to determine the perceptions of the knowledge,
attitudes, and practices on functional foods among university students. A total of 200 university
students especially among Health Campus University Sains Malaysia (USM) students from the
School of Health Sciences (PPSK) was recruited to participate in this study. Students were
conveniently selected to complete the validated ‘Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices regarding
Functional Foods’ Questionnaires. Likert scale was used to analyzed the answers, where a mean score >50 indicated that students have high knowledge, attitudes, and practices levels. There were more female (n=132; 66%) than male (n=68; 34%) students involved and majority were Malays (n=160; 80%). In terms of gender have showed significant difference with the knowledge
scores (p<0.012) compared to other socio-demographic factors did not show any significant
differences with knowledge, attitudes, and practices score. There were negative correlation
between the knowledge scores with attitudes (r= -0.049) and practices (r= -0.006) scores tested
by using Spearmans’ correlation. Meanwhile, the association between perceptions with sociodemographic characteristics were test using Chi-squared test where the results had shown there is no significant association between it (p>0.05). Therefore, it is important to assessed university students’ knowledge, attitudes and current practices of food consumptions to know if their perceptions are right about functional foods. |
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