Nutritional knowledge and calcium intake on health professionals

• Author(s): Ferro-Lebres, Vera ; Almeida de Souza, Juliana ; Alves, Lisandra ; Jardim, Marta ; Pedrosa, Sofia ; Mendes, Sónia ; Nogueira, Tiago
• Date: 2011
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/7202
• Origin: Biblioteca Digital do IPB
• Subject(s): Dietary references Intake; Nutritional knowledge
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

It is demonstrated that a better knowledge leads to better eating habits but there are no studies on the relation between NK* and calcium intake. Verify if calcium intake of health professionals is influenced by their NK. 103 workers of the three Hospitals of Oporto filled two previously validated questionnaires Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ), General Nutritional Knowledge Questionnaire(GNKQ) and a questionnaire about Socio-demographic data. The relation between NK and calcium intake was analyzed using Kruskal-Wallis test. Individuals that had a calcium intake within DRI’s** had a significantly higher score in GNKQ Total Score and in the Section It appears that NK influences calcium DRIs compliance in health professionals.