Relationships between parents' academic backgrounds and incomes and building students' healthy eating habits.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Building healthy eating habit is essential for all people. School and family are the prime institutions to instill this habit during early age. This study is aimed at understanding the impact of family such as parents' educations and incomes on building students' healthy eating habits.

Methods

A survey on building students' eating habits was conducted among primary school students of grade 4 (11 years) and 5 (12 years) from Kulim district, Malaysia. Data from 318 respondents were analysed. Descriptive statistics were used to find the present scenario of their knowledge, attitude and practices towards their eating habits while one-way ANOVA and independent sample t-test were used to find the differences between their practices based on students' gender, pare

SUBMITTER: Hoque KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5936631 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature