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Asian Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Year: 2011 | Volume: 3 | Issue: 3 | Page No.: 79-91
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G. Nurliyana

M.N. Norazmir

M.I. Khairil Anuar

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Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of University Students Regarding the Use of Nutritional Information and Food Labels

G. Nurliyana, M.N. Norazmir and M.I. Khairil Anuar
The food nutrition label provides the nutrition information that helps consumers on food choices and used to give us information so that customer can choose between foods. This study was aimed to determine the association between knowledge, attitude and practices on food label use and to determine the factors that influence the use of food labels during making food purchasing decision among university students. A cross-sectional study of undergraduate students at UiTM Puncak Alam in the Kuala Selangor district of Malaysia was conducted in June until July 2011. Three hundred twenty nine students (n = 329) volunteered to complete a Food Label Use Questionnaire (FLUQ) which included question about sociodemographics, level of knowledge about food and nutrition, attitude and practices related to using food labels and factors affecting the use of food labelling. Hypothesis testing was completed using Independent t-test, Pearson chi-square and descriptive analysis in which the statistical significant level was set at α = 0.05. The results show that, only 21.6% of the students “often” use the food label during food purchasing decision. These study shows that the practices by read the nutrition information were significantly associated with the use of food label (p<0.05). The important aspect during buying food product was expiry date (98.5%), taste (95.7%), price (92.4%) and nutrient content (90.5%) were significantly associated with the use of food label. The students attitude which is do not know how to use nutritional information label (p = 0.028) and label was not attractive (p = 0.037) were significantly associated on food label use.
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Kalaivani Jayakrishnan Reply

i am kalaivani d/o jayakrishnan and i am studying at Asia Metropoliatan University at Malaysia.i am final year student of Bachelor of Science (hons) in Healthcare Management. And currently doing my thesis. so i am requesting to get the survey questionnaire of "The use of nutrition label on food purchasing decision among university students in Kuantan , Malaysia" .

nurul farhana Reply

Hello. I'm Nurul Farhana from MSU, Shah Alam. I am currently doing my thesis and i am requesting to ask about scoring system of PART B of the questionnaire which is about Nutrition Knowledge. Can i get the reference or scoring method for that part? As according to the information, it follow based on 7Q: High(6.0-7.0), Medium(4.0-5.0) and Low (1.0-3.0). I hope to get positive respond from you soon. Please reply. Thank you.

Marco Aurelio Cusi Cabrera

Good evening, congratulate for your article published, I am a medical student at the University of San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Peru. I am very interested in your research, I am currently doing a research work so I would like you to provide me with the questionnaire that I am applying. thank you very much

Nurul Nabilah Reply

Hello. I'm Nurul Nabilah from USM, Kubang Kerian and I am from dietetics programme. I am currently doing my thesis and I am requesting to get the survey questionnaire for my thesis topic which is also about food labelling. Can you provide me with the questionnaire that I am applying and I would like to get the approval from you for me to use the questionnaire. Thank you and hope you reply soon.

Editor

Hello Nurul Nabilah,

Thank you for reaching out to us regarding your thesis topic on food labeling. We appreciate your interest in using survey questionnaire for your research. You may consider developing your own questionnaire based on your research objectives and research questions.

We wish you all the best in your research endeavors and hope that you find the resources and information you need to successfully complete your thesis. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us.

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