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@#ntroduction: The promotion of healthy eating practices in the workplace could reduce the burden of morbidity in the working population. Eating practices of employees are the result of multiple factors. This research aimed to examine the association between workplace and individual factors related to eating practice among factory workers by using the hierarchical linear modelling. Methods: Data were obtained from workers and managers in 26 factories located in a central province of Thailand. Workers completed self-administered questionnaires about individual data and eating practices including consumption of foods high in fat, salt and sugar. Factory managers were interviewed along with a survey of the worksite nutrition environment. Results: The multilevel modelling of data from 26 managers and 924 workers showed that none of the workplace factors studied predicted the employees’ eating practices, i.e. workplace policy, attitude toward food and nutrition promotion of management personnel, healthy food in canteen, and workplace nutrition environment. At the individual level, attitude towards diet and health of factory workers was associated with eating practices (b=48.67, SE=1.71). Cross-level interactions between workplace nutrition environment and canteen management attitude towards health and diet of workers, were significantly associated with eating practices. This finding indicates that nutrition promotion at the workplace should take into consideration the key factors of offering healthy foods in canteens and supporting a healthy nutrition environment. Conclusion: Worksites should be encouraged to provide a healthy nutrition environment and offer healthy food choices in their canteens.
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This study was conducted to analyze the relations among nutritional knowledge, nutritional attitude eating practice and total nutritional diagnosis and also to find the influencing factors of them. The survey was done during the period from April 1990 to June 1990 and the target population were Ewha Woman's University students (freshmen and senior) of whom 1,354 peoples were surveyed. The summarized results are as follows ; 1. For the learning environment, the percentage of completion on nutritional knowledge course was 28.6% and among them the department of foods and nutrition had the highest score(100.0%) and the next was dept. of medicine(53.4%). 2. To find the relation which the nutritional knowledge, nutritional attitude, eating practice and the total nutritional diagnosis influence on one another, the multiple correlation analysis was done. The attitude the practice were highly correlated with total nutritional diagnosis, but the correlation between nutritional knowledge and total nutritional diagnosis was not significant. The correlation between the practice and nutritional knowledge which were positively and significantly correlated with attitude respectively was positive but not significant. 3. The difference which were analyzed by department, grade and completion on knowledge course on the nutritional knowledge, attitude, eating practice were significant (p<0.01) by ANOVA. 4. The significant variables on nutritional diagnosis are the eating practice points, the grade, the knowledge course, the breakfast and the attitude (r2=10.3%) by multiple regression analysis. This study has the limitation that it did not consider the environmental factors of dietary life such as dietary culture, family environment, cultural habit. Therefore important points of these dietary studies are to extend to the practical nutritional education and dietary improvement for the national health not restricted to the local area or local population.