Intention of Nutrition Students in Implementing General Guidelines for Balanced Nutrition

Abstract

General Guidelines for Balanced Nutrition is a daily food composition based on the type and amount of nutrients, all of which have been adapted to the body’s daily needs. Nutrition students have practical experience in educating balanced nutrition, which they have learned during their learning. Even so, they still experience nutritional problems and still need to comply: General Guidelines for Balanced Nutrition in their daily lives. The purpose of this study was to determine the intention of nutrition students in implementing general guidelines for balanced nutrition. This study uses a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. The population of this study is nutrition students, Instagram application users, and the subject nutrition Instagram account followers who have the content of the General Guidelines for Balanced Nutrition. Study 1 was quantitative from a survey of 114 respondents who got the results of good intentions in the 82% and behaviour 83%. The results of the Pearson statistical test between the relationship between intention and behavior in the application of general guidelines for balanced nutrition with a p-value of 0.000, this result can be concluded that the value is smaller than 0.05 with a correlation coefficient value or r table 0.424. Study 2 conducted in-depth interviews with 6 respondents selected by purposive sampling from 114 respondents with the results of the interviews showed that these six have a strong intention to implement and educate the General Guidelines for Balanced Nutrition. The author’s observations visited respondents to see diving activities a day, and the respondents found that they carried out two messages from the ten messages of balanced nutrition contained in the General Guidelines for Balanced Nutrition. Nutrition students need real action in implementing the General Guidelines for Balanced Nutrition in their daily lives. However, nutrition students have a good intention category in writing and verbally but not with what they practice daily.