NUTRITION EDUCATION INTERVENTION ON KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE TOWARDS DIETARY CHOICES AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN AKUNGBA-AKOKO, ONDO STATE, NIGERIA
Abstract
The study investigated the effect of nutrition education intervention on knowledge and attitude towards dietary choices among university students in Akungba-Akoko Ondo State. A total of 60 students were selected using a purposive sampling technique. A self-developed, validated, and reliable questionnaire was employed for data collection. Descriptive statistics of mean and frequency counts was used while all hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance.
Findings revealed that a majority of the respondents have good understanding of basic nutrition concepts with a mean score of 2.97. Nutrition education have significant influence on the knowledge of dietary choices among students in Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba-Akoko (t (59) = -6.482, p
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