Nutritional Habits Among Nursing Students Using Moore Index for Nutrition Self Care: A Cross-sectional Study from the Nursing School Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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Journal Nurs Open

Specialty Nursing

Date 2020 Oct 19

PMID 33072370

Citations 6

Authors

Adel Bashatah

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Abstract

Background: The topics of under-nutrition and over-nutrition are important and have significant roles in adolescent life. These concepts must be explored in adolescents owing to the undesirable effects that being underweight or overweight causes.

Purpose: To evaluate the nutrition habits among adolescents from King Saud University nursing school in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia using the Arabic Version of Moore Index for Nutrition Self Care.

Method: This was a cross-sectional study carried out at a King Saud University nursing school campus to evaluate the Nutrition habits among adolescents. Self-care practises related to nutrition were assessed by using a self-report questionnaire that consisted of 50 items assessed on a five-point Likert scale. Data were collected between January to March 2019.

Findings: The study results revealed that most students 120 (85.7%) had fair nutritional habits, while 11 (7.9%) had good nutritional habits and 9 (7.9%) had poor nutritional habits. There was a significant difference between those who exercised regularly (mean 53.42) and those who did not exercise regularly (mean 46.83; = .002). In addition, simple linear regression revealed that working out regularly was associated with the score on the nutritional questionnaire ( = -6.41; 2.5, = .01). Results revealed no significant associations between gender or age and (= .8; = .9) nutritional score.

Conclusion: To increase levels of good nutritional habits and awareness, it may be useful to adopt educational programs for dietary consumption and physical training promotion.

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