Nutritional knowledge attitudes and practices among university students in Turkey and the US

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The aim of this study is to explore the differences in nutritional knowledge, attitudes and practicesof students attending the Faculty of Education of Gazi University, Turkey and of the students at St. Cloud StateUniversity, USA regarding culture. In all, 1674 subjects, aged 16-27 participated in the study voluntarily. The datawas collected by means of a demographic information form and Nutritional Attitude Inventory. Independentsamples t-test and Pearson correlation tests were used. The Cronbach’s Alpha values for the nutritional knowledge,nutritional attitude and nutritional practice subscales computed as 0.73, 0.76 and 0.72, respectively. Kaiser-Myer-Olkin coefficient (.84) and Bartlett’s test of sphericity (χ2=17296.304), (p<0.00) were conducted to assess theadequacy of the data for factor analysis. In conclusion, the nutritional attitude subscale had a moderate correlationwith nutritional practice and nutritional knowledge subscales, while there was a weak significant correlationbetween the nutritional practice and nutritional knowledge subscales regarding the nutritional inventory of studentsfrom two different countries.