Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic Of Iran
مجله پزشکی جمهوری اسلامی ایران
Med J Islam Repub Iran
Medical Sciences
http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir
2
journal2
1016-1430
2251-6840
8
10.18869/mjiri
14
8888
13
en
jalali
1394
10
1
gregorian
2016
1
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30
1
online
1
fulltext
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Economic inequality in nutritional knowledge, attitude and practice of Iranian households: The NUTRI-KAP study
Nutrition
Nutrition
Original Research
Original Research
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Background: </strong>Improper nutritional knowledge is one of the most important causes of nutritional problems, which can affect practice and cause more complications. The aim of this study was to assess the association between nutritional knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) of Iranian households with socioeconomic status (SES).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong> Methods:</strong> The study population was 14,136 households (57 clusters of 8 individuals in each province) who lived in urban and rural regions of 31 provinces of Iran. The sample size of the study was selected using multi-stage cluster sampling technique. A structured questionnaire and interview with the qualified person in each family was used to collect data. The questionnaire included demographic, SES and nutritional KAP questions. Using principle component analysis, some variables including household assets, occupation and education level of the heads of the families and respondents and the number of family members were used to construct family SES. The SES was categorized as good, moderate and weak. Pearson’s Chi-square test was used to analyze categorical variables.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>Results:</strong> The percentage of knowledge about growing up, acquiring energy and being healthy as reasons for eating food was 24.1%, 44.8% and 54.7%, respectively. Only 69.7%, 60.5% and 52.5% of the participants had knowledge of identification of meat and legumes, grain and dairy group, respectively. More than 97% of the participants had a favorable attitude toward importance of nutrition in health. The nutritional knowledge linearly increased with increasing SES. Families with good SES significantly consumed more fruit, vegetable, dairy group, red meat, chicken and poultry, fish and egg while sugar consumption was significantly higher in families with weak SES (p<0.05).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong> Conclusion:</strong> SES can influence the rate of nutritional KAP. Some policies should be considered to increase nutritional KAP especially in lower SES group in the society.</p>
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Knowledge, Attitude, Practice, Socioeconomic Status, Nutrition.
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http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-1059&slc_lang=en&sid=1
Ramin
Heshmat
rheshmat@tums.ac.ir
200319475328460024731
200319475328460024731
No
Chronic Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Forouzan
Salehi
salehi46@yahoo.com
200319475328460024732
200319475328460024732
No
Community Nutrition Department, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran.
Mostafa
Qorbani
mqorbani1379@yahoo.com
200319475328460024733
200319475328460024733
No
Department of Community Medicine, Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, Iran.
Mahsa
Rostami
mahsa_rstm@yahoo.com
200319475328460024734
200319475328460024734
No
Chronic Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Gita
Shafiee
gshafiee.endocrine@gmail.com
200319475328460024735
200319475328460024735
No
Chronic Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Zeinab
Ahadi
ahadi.ze@gmail.com
200319475328460024736
200319475328460024736
No
Chronic Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Shayesteh
Khosravi
khosravi.shayesteh@yahoo.com
200319475328460024737
200319475328460024737
No
Community Nutrition Department, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran.
Vahab
Rezvani
vahab.rezvani@gmail.com
200319475328460024738
200319475328460024738
No
Community Nutrition Department, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran.
Farzaneh
Sadeghi Ghotbabadi
fs_697@yahoo.com
200319475328460024739
200319475328460024739
No
Community Nutrition Department, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran.
Maryam
Ghaderpanahi
ghaderpanahi@gmail.com
200319475328460024740
200319475328460024740
No
Chronic Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Zahra
Abdollahi
abdollahi_z@yahoo.com
200319475328460024741
200319475328460024741
Yes
Community Nutrition Department, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran.