Profese online 2011, 4(1):25-28 | DOI: 10.5507/pol.2011.006

The nutritional usages of the students of the health science branches in Brno

Jana Straková1, Marta Šenkyříková2, Petra Juřeníková2
1 Department of Nursing, Department of Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
2 Department of Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Aims: The main goal of pilot study (background prospective nationwide study) was realize quantitative as well as quantitative monitoring of the nutrition customs by adult population. As partial goals has been established two goals: to compare selected parameters with long - range The European study HELENA and to define if the food selection by paramedical students is influenced according to professional pieces of knowledge about principles healthy nutrition and its different toward to laic adolescent population at Czech Republic.

Methods: The quantitative data collection was realized by method of an authors questionnaire (35 items), set of 131 respondents (paramedical students: Nurse, Nutritionists, Optometrists). Average age was 24.0 years, standard deviation was 3.75. Data has been evaluated thanks to descriptive statistics with utilization absolute and relative rates.

Results: The pilot study outcomes (realized 12/2008-01/2009) refer to fact that respondents are receiving a lack amount of fruit and vegetables. Daily consume more than one fruit portion 29,01 % of the respondents and daily consume more than one vegetable portion 24,43 % of the respondents. At the other side the amount of the "unfitting" food - snacks (sweets, fatty food, chips or ickie drinks). On the question about amount of receiving unfitting food indicated 9,92 % of respondents intake more than one portion and consummation of amount one portion per day indicated 32,06 % of the respondents (BMI in normal rates, i.e. women 19-23.9 and men 20-24.9 has got 75 % respondents, 10 % respondents has got decreased rate of BMI and 15 % respondents has got over normal increased rate of BMI).

Conclusions: By the total outcomes comparison has found out that behave in the district of Czech and European adolescent population is consensual in all monitored attributes (intake of fruit, vegetable, "unfitting food").

Keywords: health, adolescence, HELENA study, adolescent moratorium phenomenon, nutritional usage

Published: April 2011  Show citation

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Straková, J., Šenkyříková, M., & Juřeníková, P. (2011). The nutritional usages of the students of the health science branches in Brno. Profese Online, 4(1), 25-28. doi: 10.5507/pol.2011.006
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