Research on the Mediating Effect of Nutritional Health Information Overload and Avoidance on Undergraduates'Nutrition Knowledge-attitude-practice
Objective Verifying the intermediary effect of nutritional health information overload and avoidance on College Students'nutrition knowledge,attitude and behavior in order to provide theoretical basis for nutrition and health education.Methods Using the nutrition and health information avoidance questionnaire,nutrition information overload questionnaire and nutrition knowledge attitude behavior scale,the online questionnaire was distributed to college undergraduates.Pearson correlation was used to analyze 5 variables such as nutrition information overload by.Through the process component and bootstrap method,the mediating effects of nutrition health information over-load and avoidance in nutrition knowledge and attitude,nutrition knowledge and behavior were tested.Results The results showed that nutrition knowledge score was(5.36±2.78),nutrition attitude score was(14.68±2.22),nutri-tion behavior score was(35.74±4.96),nutrition knowledge positively predicted nutrition attitude and nutrition be-havior(r=0.275,0.285,P<0.01);Nutrition and health information avoidance negatively predicted nutrition attitude and nutrition behavior(r=-0.252,-0.274,P<0.01);In the action mechanism of nutrition knowledge on nutrition at-titude and behavior,nutrition and health information avoidance had a separate intermediary effect,the proportion of intermediary effect in total effect was 31.8%and 17.9%respectively,and nutrition and health information overload and avoidance had a chain intermediary effect,the proportion of intermediary effect in total effect was 12.7%and 7.1%respectively.Conclusion Medical and health institutions should strengthen nutrition and health education and reduce the occurrence of avoidance of nutrition and health information.