Factors affecting food consumption behaviors of over weight students in elementary schools under the Office of Private Education commission in Bangkok Metropolis
Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to study (a) the relationships among predisposing factors, enabling factors and reinforcing factors with food consumption behaviors of students and ( b) the affecting of those food consumption behaviors of over weight students. The questionnaires were constructed by the researcher and sent to the 397 over weight students in prathomsuksa six from 58 elementary schools under the Office of Private Education Commission in Bangkok Metropolis. The obtained data were then analyzed into percentages, means, standard deviations. Pearson Product - Moment Correlation Coefficient, Chi - Square and Stepwise Multiple Regression Analysis were also applied. The results were as follows : 1. Most over weight students were males. Most of them were the first child from the two sibling families. Eighty three point six percent of students were having obese parents. Students' knowledge of food consumption was at the " fair" level. Among students' negative attitudes, it was found that 93.9 percent believed that obese people are wealthy and 70.5 percent agreed that obese people are having good personality. Regarding students ' food consumption behaviors, it was found that 68.8 percent of students overate at dinner, 81.6 percent of them ate more than 3 meals a day, and 87.9 percent of them had dinner after 6 p.m. 2. Factors on relationship with food consumption behaviors which significant at the. 05 level were : predisposing factors were beliefs about food consumption ; attitudes towards over weight nutrition ; age of students ; religions and obesity in family members . Enabling factors were the sources where food was purchased. Reinforcing factors were parents, teachers, and peers' behaviors including father's education and mother's occupation. 3. Predisposing factors affecting food consumption behaviors of over weight students were : beliefs about food consumption ; religions and obesity in family members. Enabling factors included the sources where food was purchased, students' allowance and family income, while parents, teachers, and peers' behaviors, father education and students' media perception were reinforcing factors