Factors influencing nutrition knowledge among rural women in Bukidnon and their role as nutrition provider in the family

• Main Author: Bullecer, Mitchel Arao
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2007
• Subjects: Nutrition; Nutrition—Health aspects; Nutrition—Health aspects > Philippines > Bukidnon; Public Health
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/3504; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/etd_masteral/article/10342/viewcontent/CDTG004316_P.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

The study assessed the nutritional knowledge among farming women in MADE Farm, Kulasihan, Lantapan, Bukidnon and their role as nutrition provider in the family. The research is a quantitative study that is quantitative in nature and utilizes an interview schedule. About 50 farming mothers served as respondents. Frequencies and cross-tabulations were used to analyze the data, and the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) was used to process the data. Findings revealed that majority of the respondents have a high level of nutritional knowledge, while three farming mothers have low level of nutritional knowledge. The nutritional knowledge of farming mothers was influenced by personal, familial and institutional factors. Among these contributing factors, high educational attainment and high quarterly household income specifically appeared to have contributed to the existing nutrition knowledge of the study group. Support from health professionals such as midwives and family interaction were suggested to stimulate nutrition information acquisition. The study revealed that nutrition practices such as washing of fruits and vegetables before eating them fresh or raw was always practiced by all farming mothers. Other nutritional practices were always practiced by a greater number of respondents with a high level of nutritional knowledge, while modification of recipes to reduce fats/calorie level, preference of nutritive value of food over price of food and of protein rich foods when buying food were occasionally performed among rural mothers with high nutritional knowledge level. The study suggests that farming women with high level of nutritional knowledge are more likely to observed consistent desirable nutritional practices. On the other hand, mothers with low nutritional knowledge level were found to be inconsistent when it comes to nutritional practices. Thus, there is a relationship between knowledge and the practices of an individual.