RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AWARENESS OF NUTRITION AND PRACTICE OF NUTRITION AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

(A CASE STUDY OF KADUNA STATE: IMPLICATIONS FOR COUNSELLING)

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The purpose of the study was to assess the relationship between nutritional awareness and practice among secondary school students in Kaduna State. The study was guided by four objectives, four research questions and four null hypotheses these were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Correlational Design was used in this study. The Population of the study consists of 3,514 senior secondary schools in Kaduna State. A simple random sampling technique was used to select 10% of the population of the 342 respondents, 12 schools from the 4 educational zones were randomly selected. The instrument used for data collection is a structured questionnaire called Students Questionnaire on Nutritional Awareness and Practice, (SQNAP) developed by the researcher and it consists of two sections, section A requests for the demographic information of the respondents while section B consists of 18 questions Nutritional Awareness and 12 questions on Practices. Descriptive statistics of frequency counts simple percentage mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the research questions. Null hypotheses one, two and three were tested with Pearson Product Moment Correlation, while null hypotheses four was tested using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). All hypotheses were tested at 0.05 alpha level of significance. The Results of the analysis reveal that significant relationship exist between nutritional awareness and practice among secondary school students in Kaduna State. There is no significant relationship between nutritional awareness and practice of nutrition of male students. There is no significant relationship between nutritional awareness and practice of nutrition among female students‘ secondary school in Kaduna State. There is no significant relationship among age group on nutritional awareness. Significant relationship exists among age groups in nutritional practices in Kaduna State. This shows that the older the students‘ age group, the higher nutritional practices. It was recommended that when counsellors are to give counselling on nutrition and practice to students there should be no gender discrimination. It was also recommended that the government, NGO and counsellors should try to carry the rural students along in the awareness of nutrition. Proper nutrition regardless of age the nutritional counselling intervention programmes should cover all groups of human being and locations.

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