مستوى الوعي الغذائي لدى طلبة تخصص التربية الرياضية في جامعة النجاح الوطنية و جامعة السلطان قابوس

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The purpose of this study was to investigate dietary awareness level among physical education students at An-Najah National University (ANU) and Sultan Qaboos University (SQU).

Furthermore, to determine the effect of gender, academic level and accumulative average on dietary awareness level.

The sample was consisted of 207 students, 105 from ANU and 102 from SQU.

The questionnaire contains (15) items of dietary awareness.

The results indicated that there was a low degree of dietary awareness level among physical education students at (ANU) and (SQU), where the overall percentage of response was 59%.

Also, the results revealed that there were no significant differences in dietary awareness level among physical education students at (ANU) and (SQU) due to the students university, gender and academic level.

While, the results revealed that there were significant differences in dietary awareness level due to accumulative average in favor of highest average.

The results of stepwise regression revealed the main five items in predicting total score of dietary awareness, where the percentage of explanation of these items was 59%.

Based on these findings, it was recommended to reconstructing the curricula related to health, and conducting workshops for physical education students in healthy nutrition.