الفهرس يوجد فقط 14 صفحة متاحة للعرض العام
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المستخلص
Adolescence represents a window of opportunity to prepare for a healthy adult life. World’s adolescents population, 1200 million persons age from 10-19 years of a 19% of total world population. Egyptian adolescents aged 10-19 years represent 22% of the Egyptian population, but despite the magnitude of this population segment and variety of the problems facing them, they received relatively little attention or public investment. (WHO, 2002; and NSEA, 1999). Today’s girls are the future mothers, they are in need of proper support, and care to achieve maximum preparation for motherhood capabilities and optimum reproduction. So the nutritional status prior to conception has a significant impact on the health of baby as well as mother. (Smithon, 1992; EMWA, 1995; Alters & Schiff, 2001). The aim of the study was to identify the impact of dietary knowledge and habits among secondary girls on their nutritional status. The total sample size of the study was 341 students from the first year of the secondary school girls at Zagazig City. A pilot study was performed for 20 students and necessary modification was done. This number of students excluded from the sample. The duration of data collection was 4 months, starting from November 2003 to the end of February 2004. A structure questionnaire composed of 3 parts was constructed to collect the following data: 1. Part I: - include: • Socio-demographic characteristics of students such as, age, residence, work, and education of parents…etc. Twenty questions to cover students’ nutritional knowledge. Nineteenth questions to determine the students’ dietary habits. 2. Part II: - include: • 7 days diet recall list, was completed by each student. 3. Part III: - include: Clinical assessment sheet which contains: • Measurement of student body weight and height to detect BMI. Six questions to determine the general puberty characteristics of girls as age of menarche, days of period…etc. and observation table: to observe malnutrition signs through examination of student’s hair, skin, lips…etc. A scoring system for knowledge of students regarding to nutrition & diet was developed by the researcher, total score was 40 points. Students considered have good dietary knowledge if their score ≥20 and bad dietary knowledge if their score <20 points. Total score of food recall was 35 points. Student’s diet considered balanced if score ≥ 17.5 points and unbalanced if <17.5 points. Total score of observed health status of the students was 34, students considered have no malnutrition signs if their score ≥ 17 and have malnutrition signs if score < 17 points. The results of the study revealed that: - • Half or more of the students had poor dietary knowledge and unsatisfied nutritional signs and more than half of the students consumed unbalanced diet. •Regarding to dietary habits, (46.3%) of the students had unsatisfactory dietary habits, and the rest had accepted or satisfactory level of dietary habits (29.1% &24.6% respectively). •Concerning to minerals and vitamins consumption, (71.6%) of the students were consumed minerals 6 days/week and only (35.8%) consumed vitamins 6 days/week. • One quarter of the students were under-weight and nearly one third of them had over-weight or obese. And (61.5%) of obese girls had unsatisfactory dietary habits. • Regarding to the diet, majority of students eats meals, and drink milk irregularly, (41.6%) go school without taken their breakfast. Most of the students consumed snacks, and two thirds of them consumed soft drinks daily. •More than half of the students didn’t attend with their family during serving food. •Nearly ¾ students their appetite affected by sadness or worriers condition by increase or decrease.