Title of article :
A Study of Fast Foods Consumption Attitude among Secondary High School Students, Ardakan, Yazd, Iran
Author/Authors :
Fazelpour, Shokooh Department of Health Education - School of Public Health - Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran , Hosseini, Narjes Department of Health Education - School of Public Health - Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran , Farzaneh, Zahra Department of Health Education - School of Public Health - Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran , Shamsi, Farimah Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology - School of public Health - Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences Yazd, Iran , Sardari, Farzaneh Department of Medical Information and Librarianship - School of Management & Information Science - Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran , Nikukaran, Jalal Department of Healthcare Services Management - School of public Health - Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences Yazd, Iran
Abstract :
Introduction: Healthy and nutritional habits are formed and consolidated
during adolescence. So this research has been done in Ardakan-Yazd province
on high school students' attitude to fast food use.
Methods: In this cross-sectional descriptive study, 200 students have been
chosen by stratified sampling method and the data was collected by a
questionnaire which approved its reliability and validity. All the descriptive
data has been analyzed by SPSS 16 software through Chi-square experiment
and ANOVA tests.
Results: The results of the experiment determined that 55% of the students
were female, and 93% were single. The students' BMI was as follow: 22% thin
(BMI< 18.5) 56% normal (18.5≤ BMI< 25) 14.5% overweight (25≤ BMI< 30)
6.5% fat (obese) (BMI ≥30).The female has a positive attitude to fast foods (P=
0.03). The mean attitude score for eating fast food in 17-18 years old group was
more than 15-16 years old students (P= 0.001). The mean attitude score also
showed that the single students were more eager to eat fast foods than the
married students (P= 0.001)
Conclusion: Most of the people who use fast foods are low educated,
teenagers, youth and singles. On the other hand, social media like TV and radio
and family has a significant effect on correct nutritional habits. So improving
family's attitudes and educating students and teachers by social media can help
in transferring data to the students and their teachers.
Keywords :
Yazd , Fast Foods , High School Students , Attitude