Survey on the utility behavior of dietary supplement in middle school students / 药学实践杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the utility behavior of dietary supplement in middle school students from Shenyang and Shanghai .Methods The survey questionnaires were handed out to the middle school students from different grades of 11 schools in Shenyang and Shanghai .The characteristics of population statistic and behavior on the understanding and attitude of dietary supplement were collected .Results 1210 survey questionnaires were handed out and 916 were taken back effectively . The utility rate of dietary supplement was 24 .56％ in this survey .50 .89％ of the user considered that taking the dietary sup-plement reached the expected effect .The probability of the dietary supplement utility in students was different in different grade and city .The utility rate of the dietary supplement from the students whose parents had medical related occupations was higher than others .The main objective of taking dietary supplement was supplement vitamin and microelement .The pharmacy was the primary channel to get the dietary supplement .The information and recommendations of the dietary supplement was mainly coming from experts in medicine and nutrition .78 .93％ of the responders made no difference of the category and trade-mark of dietary supplement .But the responders from Shenyang and family which had medicine related parents took more atten-tion on the category and trademark of dietary supplement than that from Shanghai and family which had not medicine related parents .(P<0 .01) The effectiveness of dietary supplement from the responders was related to gender and administer habit . (P<0 .01) Conclusion A quarter of the survey students were taken dietary supplement .The safety education of dietary sup-plement utility should be carried out during middle school .Family from different city had differences in the utility of dietary supplement .Family with medicine related parents preferred to take dietary supplement .The channel of supply and recommen-dation was rational in the middle school student′s family .