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The Relationship of Eating Behavior and Nutritional Knowledge with College Student Nutritional Status During Online Lecture in the Covid-19 Pandemic
Tesa Rafkhani

Last modified: 2021-10-17

Abstract


The college student is a group of people that has a higher risk related to unhealthy eating behavior. The knowledge of nutritional science also becomes the cause of nutritional problems due to the lack of knowledge regarding balanced nutrition patterns. The Covid-19 pandemic has led to change in eating behavior such as an increase in consumption of unhealthy foods that have an impact on nutritional status. This research aims to analyze the relationship between eating behavior and nutritional knowledge with the nutritional status of college students during an online lecture in the Covid-19 pandemic. The method used in this research was analytic observational with a cross-sectional design with multistage cluster random sampling as many as 220 respondents. The eating behavior data was measured using the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ). The nutritional knowledge data was measured using a questionnaire of the research by Florence in 2017. The nutritional status data was measured according to BMI and obtained through measurement of body weight (kg) and height (m2). The data were analyzed using the Pearson Rank Spearman Test (α=0.05). The result showed that there was a significant relationship between eating behavior and the nutritional status of college students (p=0.000), however, the knowledge of nutritional did not have a significant relationship with the nutritional status of college students (p=0.160). It was concluded that there was an alteration in eating behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic which had an impact on the nutritional status of college students, however, the level of nutritional knowledge had no impact on the nutritional status of college students. By this research, the authors hope that college students can pay more attention to their consumption patterns during the online lecture by noticing their healthy eating behavior, hence students can have normal nutritional status during the Covid-19 pandemic.


Keywords


Covid-19; College Students; Eating Behavior; Nutritional Knowledge; Nutritional Status

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