Repast Consumption Habits And Health Issues Of Food and Beverage Services Department Apprentice Students

Being planned to evaluate the effect of repast consumption habits and the health issues of apprentice students being educated at The Departments of Food and Beverage services, the study has been conducted on 425 apprentice students aged between 14-24 and being educated in 5 Centres for Development of Vocational Training in İstanbul. A questionnaire form consisting of 3 sections and 26 questions aiming to identify the demographic attributes, eating habits and health conditions of the students was prepared in order to gather data. Prior consent of students and approval from Ethical Committee were received before the questionnaires were applied in the second half of the 2013-2014 Academic Year. The data gathered were assessed in a computer programme called SPSS 21.0. It has been found out that the %59.1 of the students who are cooks, %63.8 of the students who are pastry cooks, and the %59.7 of the students who work as service personnel skip the main meals, and it is the breakfast which is skipped the most (%51.3); and %32.9 of the students skip breakfasts because they go to work early. It has also been discovered that the health problems of the %42.6 of apprentice students who skip main meals affect their work lives. It has been concluded that eating habits of primarily students and all individuals from all ages can be altered positively by increasing their knowledge of nutrition by educating them about dietetics in educational institutions.