Volume 2 No 2 Abstract The study was conducted to determine the nutritional practices and health security of undergraduate students in Delta State. The study was conducted in public universities in Delta States, Nigeria. It adopted the ex-post-facto design. Two research questions guided the study. The population for the study was made up of all the students in...
Abstract The study was conducted to determine the nutritional practices and health security of undergraduate students in Delta State. The study was conducted in public universities in Delta States, Nigeria. It adopted the ex-post-facto design. Two research questions guided the study. The population for the study was made up of all the students in public universities in Delta State. The choice of state universities was necessitated by the industrial action taken by academic staff in public federal universities. the
Abstract The study was conducted to determine the nutritional practices and health security of undergraduate students in Delta State. The study was conducted in public universities in Delta States, Nigeria. It adopted the ex-post-facto design. Two research questions guided the study. The population for the study was made up of all the students in public universities in Delta State. The choice of state universities was necessitated by the industrial action taken by academic staff in public federal universities. the
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The study was conducted to determine the nutritional practices and health security of undergraduate students in Delta State. The study was conducted in public universities in Delta States, Nigeria. It adopted the ex-post-facto design. Two research questions guided the study. The population for the study was made up of all the students in public universities in Delta State. The choice of state universities was necessitated by the industrial action taken by academic staff in public federal universities. the population of the study comprised all students of the four state owned universities in Delta State. The sample for the study comprised 300 undergraduate students selected from three universities out of the four state universities. The instrument used for data collection was a structured questionnaire consisting of 32-items rated on a four-point scale of strongly agree (SA)= 4, agree (A) =3, disagree (D) =2 and strongly disagree (SD)= 1 and titled; “Nutritional Practices and Health Security Related Questionnaire “(NPHSRQ. The instrument was validated by three experts and reliability established through a trial test which involved 30 students selected from Federal College of Education (Technical) Asaba. The split half method was used and a coefficient of 0.81 consistency value was obtained. 300 copies of the instrument were administered by the researcher. Research questions were answered using descriptive statistical tools of mean (x̅) and standard deviation. t-test was used to test the hypotheses at a critical alpha level of 0.05. Findings in the study revealed that; university undergraduate students have basic knowledge of what they eat as food but do not have adequate knowledge of the nutritional values of the food they eat but not have basic understanding of the nutritional implications for health security in later life. It was recommended that; students should be subjected to regular to health screening and dietary recommendations by experts based on regular health reports as this will guide them to make right choices on what to eat and also eat right.
Keywords: undergraduate students, nutritional practices and health security
