Pakistan Journal of Nutrition1680-51941994-7984Asian Network for Scientific Information10.3923/pjn.2017.406.411ShazimanSyimir bin RaniMohd Dzulkhairi Mohd AripinKhairun Nain bin Nor HamidNazefah Abdul SulaimanWan Noraini Wan RahmanZairina A. AbdullahMohd Yunus 62017166Background and Objective: Orphaned children face an increased risk of being malnourished. This study was aimed to explore knowledge and attitudes towards nutrition as well as nutritional practices and Body Mass Index (BMI) of adolescent residents of orphanages. Methodology: Five orphanage institutions in Selangor and Malacca were chosen for this study and 85 adolescents aged 13-18 years old were enrolled. Questionnaires concerning nutritional knowledge were administered in face-to-face interviews to prevent bias and to ensure questionnaire completion. Results: The results showed that out of the 85 subjects, 80% were orphans and 20% non-orphans. The majority of respondents were of normal weight (61.2%), while 2.4 and 4.7% were thin and severely thin, respectively. Meanwhile, 16.5% of subjects were overweight and 15.3% were obese. Fewer than 20% of respondents (14/85) were scored as having a good level of nutritional knowledge score but more than half had nutrition attitude and practice scores within the good range. Although no significant correlation was found between nutrition knowledge and attitude (rp = -0.043, p = 0.694) or knowledge and practice (rp = -0.222, p = 0.148), there was significant correlation between nutrition attitude and practice (rp=0.295, p = 0.006). Conclusion: Less than half of the total respondents obtained a good score for nutritional knowledge but the majority of the participants scored at the good level for attitude and practice. Although most respondents scored at the good level for nutritional practice, this outcome was not reflective of the situation as a whole, particularly given the poor scores for exercise and breakfast practices.]]>Unicef,20152015Unicef,20132013WHO.,20072007Aboud, F., M. Samuel, A. Hadera and A. Addus,19913312751280Yendork, J.S. and N.Z. Somhlaba,201442837Thompson, J.L., M.M. Manore and L.A. Vaughan,2008O'Dea, J.A. and R. Wilson,200621796805Panpanich, R., B. Brabin, A. Gonani and S. Graham,199919279285Sadik, A.,20109844852Vaida, N.,201323641Watts, H., S. Gregson, S. Saito, B. Lopman, M. Beasley and R. Monasch,200712584593He, Z. and C. Ji,20071211801190Pirouznia, M.,200152127132O'Dea, J.A. and S. Abraham,200133332340Hall, A., V. Tuffrey, T. Kassa, T. Demissie, T. Degefie and S. Lee,201015287295Aggarwal, A., P. Monsivais, A.J. Cook and A. Drewnowski,2013114266272Sichert-Hellert, W., L. Beghin, S.D. Henauw, E. Grammatikaki and L. Hallstrom et al.,20111420832091Jatau, A.A.,201481827Koch, S., T.M. Waliczek and J.M. Zajicek,200616620625Chee, Y.F., W.K.Y. Roseline and S.B. Sabariah,2008147989Serene, T.E., S. Shamarina and N.M.T. Mohd,201117151162O'Brien, G. and M. Davies,200722571575Thakur, N. and F. D'Amico,199931122127Shah, P., A. Misra, N. Gupta, D.K. Hazra and R. Gupta et al.,2010104427436Martens, M.K., P. van Assema and J. Brug,2004812581265Lake, A.A., A.J. Rugg-Gunn, R.M. Hyland, C.E. Wood, J.C. Mathers and A.J. Adamson,200442255263Rampersaud, G.C., M.A. Pereira, B.L. Girard, J. Adams and J.D. Metzl,2005105743760Hoyland, A., L. Dye and C.L. Lawton,200922220243Kapantais, E., E. Chala, D. Kaklamanou, L. Lanaras, M. Kaklamanou and T. Tzotzas,201114101108Poh, B.K., T.B.L. Kathryn, S.N. Wong and E.S. Tee,201218231242Hearty, A.P., S.N. McCarthy, J.M. Kearney and M.J. Gibney,200748111Ruzita, A.T., H.C. Koo and B.K. Poh,20154171177