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Abstract:
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Background: Nutritional status is a health condition that is affected by the intake
of food and the use of nutrients. The level of knowledge or how to read good
nutritional information labels is related to the practice of selecting good packaged
food for students. The Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) reported that
in 2015 in the fourth quarter there were 742 (20.62%) food labels out of 3,598
food product labels that were identified as non-compliant (TMK). In addition,
1,130 (40.56%) of the 2,786 food advertisements also did not meet the
requirements. The behavior of reading labels can be used as a preventive and
promotive action in an effort to maintain nutritional health.
Objective: to determine the relationship between the level of knowledge,
perception and adherence to reading food labels with the nutritional status of
students of the Faculty of Health Sciences
Methods: this study used an analytic observational type, with a cross-sectional
research design. The study used a total sampling technique of 58 FIKES students
who met the criteria.
Results : shows that the level of knowledge has a significance value of 0.114.
Perception has a significance value of 0.028. Compliance with reading has a
significance value of 0.599 and food intake has a significance value of 0.721
where p>0.05 then the hypothesis (Ho) is accepted and Ha is rejected.
Conclusion : There is no relationship between the level of knowledge, perception,
and adherence to reading food labels and food intake on students' nutritional
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