Dietary behaviors of rural residents in northeastern China: implications for designing intervention information and targeting high-risk population.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Dietary behavior is a pivotal modifiable determinant in reducing the occurrence of obesity/overweight and chronic non-communicable diseases. Improving the dietary behavior of rural residents in China is imminent due to the poor performance of their dietary behavior. Nutrition knowledge and health literacy are considered as elements that are linked intimately to healthy dietary behaviors but lack research in the Chinese setting.

Purpose

The study is designed to explore the relationship between nutritional knowledge, health literacy and dietary behaviors and to analyze the performance under different demographic characteristics.

Methods

A face-to-face survey of 400 rural residents on their nutrition knowledge, functional health literacy and dietary intake of

SUBMITTER: Bai L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10883159 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature