The use of nutrition label on food purchasing decision among university students in Kuantan, Malaysia

Nutrition label provides nutrition status of the pre-packaged foods and is very useful for people when making decision for healthy foods. However, there is a lack of awareness among Malaysians regarding the use of nutrition label when purchasing foods. Hence, a cross sectional study among tertiar...

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Main Authors:	Hazali, Norazlanshah, I, Muhammad, MD, Hasmira, M, Mashita, MR, Norfazilah, MF, Fazlyla Nadya
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	School of Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia 2013
Subjects:	TX341 Nutrition. Foods and food supply
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/34178/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/34178/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/34178/1/PUBLISHED_JOURNAL.pdf

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spelling	iium-341782014-11-22T04:30:37Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/34178/ The use of nutrition label on food purchasing decision among university students in Kuantan, Malaysia Hazali, Norazlanshah I, Muhammad MD, Hasmira M, Mashita MR, Norfazilah MF, Fazlyla Nadya TX341 Nutrition. Foods and food supply Nutrition label provides nutrition status of the pre-packaged foods and is very useful for people when making decision for healthy foods. However, there is a lack of awareness among Malaysians regarding the use of nutrition label when purchasing foods. Hence, a cross sectional study among tertiary students (IIUM) was conducted. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between gender, attitude and knowledge of the tertiary students with the use of nutrition labeling. Assessment s were done by distributing 25-item questionnaires composed of pair-wise, open-ended and 5-item Likert scale questions to the subjects. The prevalence of level of nutrition knowledge and attitudes were determined. Our analysis showed that 95 students(57.6%) were moderately making use of the nutrition label. There was no significant difference between gender and the use of nutrition label on food purchasing decision among these students. There was also no association between knowledge and the use of nutrition label on food purchasing decision among them. However, there was significant association between attitude and the use of nutrition label on food purchasing decision among the students(p= 0.001, r= 17.842). Our results show that attitude is the key factor in regards with the use of nutrition label while gender and knowledge has no effect on the use of nutrition label on food purchasing School of Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia 2013 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/34178/1/PUBLISHED_JOURNAL.pdf Hazali, Norazlanshah and I, Muhammad and MD, Hasmira and M, Mashita and MR, Norfazilah and MF, Fazlyla Nadya (2013) The use of nutrition label on food purchasing decision among university students in Kuantan, Malaysia. Health and the Environment Journal , 4 (1). pp. 1-10. ISSN 2180-1126 http://www.hej.kk.usm.my/volume4no1.php
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spellingShingle	TX341 Nutrition. Foods and food supply Hazali, Norazlanshah I, Muhammad MD, Hasmira M, Mashita MR, Norfazilah MF, Fazlyla Nadya The use of nutrition label on food purchasing decision among university students in Kuantan, Malaysia
description	Nutrition label provides nutrition status of the pre-packaged foods and is very useful for people when making decision for healthy foods. However, there is a lack of awareness among Malaysians regarding the use of nutrition label when purchasing foods. Hence, a cross sectional study among tertiary students (IIUM) was conducted. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between gender, attitude and knowledge of the tertiary students with the use of nutrition labeling. Assessment s were done by distributing 25-item questionnaires composed of pair-wise, open-ended and 5-item Likert scale questions to the subjects. The prevalence of level of nutrition knowledge and attitudes were determined. Our analysis showed that 95 students(57.6%) were moderately making use of the nutrition label. There was no significant difference between gender and the use of nutrition label on food purchasing decision among these students. There was also no association between knowledge and the use of nutrition label on food purchasing decision among them. However, there was significant association between attitude and the use of nutrition label on food purchasing decision among the students(p= 0.001, r= 17.842). Our results show that attitude is the key factor in regards with the use of nutrition label while gender and knowledge has no effect on the use of nutrition label on food purchasing
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author	Hazali, Norazlanshah I, Muhammad MD, Hasmira M, Mashita MR, Norfazilah MF, Fazlyla Nadya
author_facet	Hazali, Norazlanshah I, Muhammad MD, Hasmira M, Mashita MR, Norfazilah MF, Fazlyla Nadya
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title	The use of nutrition label on food purchasing decision among university students in Kuantan, Malaysia
title_short	The use of nutrition label on food purchasing decision among university students in Kuantan, Malaysia
title_full	The use of nutrition label on food purchasing decision among university students in Kuantan, Malaysia
title_fullStr	The use of nutrition label on food purchasing decision among university students in Kuantan, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	The use of nutrition label on food purchasing decision among university students in Kuantan, Malaysia
title_sort	use of nutrition label on food purchasing decision among university students in kuantan, malaysia
publisher	School of Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia
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The use of nutrition label on food purchasing decision among university students in Kuantan, Malaysia

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