Nutritional knowledge,attitude and behavior among physical education teachers in universities

Objective To investigate the status of nutrition knowledge,attitude,and behavior and its influencing factors among physical education(PE)teachers in universities for nutritional education in the teachers. Methods A self-designed questionnaire was adopted to carry out a survey with cluster sampling among 180 PE teachers from 8 universities to explore nutritional know ledge,attitude and behavior of the teachers. Results The ratios of the teachers with excellent nutritional know ledge,attitude and behavior were 18.9%,61.9%,and 16.4%,respectively.The average score for nutritional know ledge was 20.60±3.09,with a qualified rate of 69.7%.The average score for nutritional attitude was 4.99±0.34 and that for nutritional behavior was 10.96±1.00.There were 82.4%of the teachers considering to change bad dietary behavior, 73.5%concerning about their body weight,93.6%realizing the importance of nutritional know ledg,and 76.4%reporting the deficient nutritional know lege for teaching and daily life. Conclusion The nutritional attitude is generally good,but the nutritional know ledge and the behavior needs to be improved among university PE teachers in Chengdu city.