Nutrional Knowledge Levels Of Adult Prisoners İn Amasya, Turkey
Journal Title: Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 14
Abstract
Background. Prisoners and convicts are deprived of important aspects of health promotion, health education and disease prevention and tend to have poorer health status in comparison to the general public. Objective. This study was planned to determine the level of nutritional knowledge of adult prisoners in Amasya E Type Closed Penal Institution, and to understand the training requirements for these individuals. Methods. The questionnaire aimed to measure nutrition knowledge levels were administered to 200 individuals between April 2014 and March 2015, by means of face-to-face interview. Results. Of the prisoners 76,5% stated that they had not undertaken any kind of training during their stay and 85,4% acknowledged that the trainings that they had undergone were from non-health related fields. Half of the participants mentioned that they obtained nutrition related knowledge from the mass media such as newspapers, TV and internet. Regarding nutrition related questions, less than 50% of the participants provided correct answers for food sources of nutrients. Rate of correct responses for nutrition and health related questions were also found to be low. Conclusion. In general the nutrition knowledge level of the prisoners were found to be incorrect or limited. It was suggested that nutriton and health related trainings were to be organized at regular intervals to increase the awareness and to improve food habits of the individuals.
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Mukaddes Örs, Indrani Kalkan
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- DOI 10.14738/assrj.414.3469.
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