Influence of age and education on nutritional knowledge and dietary choices among Chinese consumers in Shenyang China

MacArthur Roseline Love, . and Wang Yue Hua, . and Feng Xu Qiao, . Influence of age and education on nutritional knowledge and dietary choices among Chinese consumers in Shenyang China. pp. 17-28. ISSN 1394-035X

Introduction: Consumers seldom pay attention to the nutritional aspects of food during purchasing. The study examined the influence of age and level of education on the nutrition knowledge and dietary choices of a sample of Chinese consumers. Methods: Probability and non-probability sampling methods were used to select four supermarkets and subjects for this cross-sectional descriptive survey conducted in Shenyang the capital city of Liaoning Province in China. A response rate of 95.9 was obtained after retrieving 400 questionnaires out of 417 distributed. Results: About two-thirds (615) of the respondents rated their nutrition knowledge level as fair. Independent t-test revealed a significant age difference in knowledge levels (t (398) 5.467 p0.01 (two-tailed) with 7.0 (eta square () 0.070) of the variance in nutritional knowledge explained by age groups. Significant differences (p0.01) in knowledge level F (2 397) 7.765 p 0.00 were also observed among the three educational groups using one-way ANOVA with nutritional knowledge accounting for 19.1 (eta square () 0.191) of the variance. However age and level of education did not present any significant influence on the respondents' food choices. The results suggest that nutrition knowledge increased with age and level of education but did not sufficiently affect food choices. Conclusion: Supportive nutrition education on use of label information complemented with practical use of such information may augment nutrition knowledge and assist consumers to make healthy food choices.

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Abstract

Introduction: Consumers seldom pay attention to the nutritional aspects of food during purchasing. The study examined the influence of age and level of education on the nutrition knowledge and dietary choices of a sample of Chinese consumers. Methods: Probability and non-probability sampling methods were used to select four supermarkets and subjects for this cross-sectional descriptive survey conducted in Shenyang the capital city of Liaoning Province in China. A response rate of 95.9 was obtained after retrieving 400 questionnaires out of 417 distributed. Results: About two-thirds (615) of the respondents rated their nutrition knowledge level as fair. Independent t-test revealed a significant age difference in knowledge levels (t (398) 5.467 p0.01 (two-tailed) with 7.0 (eta square () 0.070) of the variance in nutritional knowledge explained by age groups. Significant differences (p0.01) in knowledge level F (2 397) 7.765 p 0.00 were also observed among the three educational groups using one-way ANOVA with nutritional knowledge accounting for 19.1 (eta square () 0.191) of the variance. However age and level of education did not present any significant influence on the respondents' food choices. The results suggest that nutrition knowledge increased with age and level of education but did not sufficiently affect food choices. Conclusion: Supportive nutrition education on use of label information complemented with practical use of such information may augment nutrition knowledge and assist consumers to make healthy food choices.

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Item Type:	Article
AGROVOC Term:	Nutrition
AGROVOC Term:	Nutrition education
AGROVOC Term:	Age differences
AGROVOC Term:	Age groups
AGROVOC Term:	Consumers
AGROVOC Term:	Consumer surveys
AGROVOC Term:	Sampling
AGROVOC Term:	Data collection
AGROVOC Term:	Data analysis
AGROVOC Term:	Questionnaires
Depositing User:	Mr. AFANDI ABDUL MALEK
Last Modified:	24 Apr 2025 00:53
URI:	http://webagris.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/7877

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