The Effects of Nutrition Education on Food Habits of the Elderly

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10.2991/icessms-16.2017.44How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Health education, Residents, Food habits, Stages of change

Abstract

Object: To explore the effects of health education based on the Trans-theoretical Model and Stages of Change for Residents of elderly on food habits. Method: Eighty urban residents with age?60 years were recruited as participants. After baseline survey was carried out with self-edited questionnaires, health education on food habits was conducted to the participants. Three months later the second survey was carried out with the same questionnaire. Results: The nutritional knowledge of objects had increased significantly after health education (P<0.01). The distributions of stages of change in objects of high fat intake, pickles intake and salt intake and low milk intake were significantly different with that of them before health education (P<0.05), while that of objects of low fruits and vegetables intake was not significantly different (P>0.05). Conclusions: Health education carried out according to the different stages of change of objects can effectively alter the food habits.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 2nd International Conference on Education, Social Science, Management and Sports (ICESSMS 2016)
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