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Health Promotion International, Vol. 14, No. 3, 241-250, September 1999
© Oxford University Press 1999

Effects of a community-based nutrition education program on the dietary behavior of Chinese-American college students

Wei Yue Sun, Beatrice Sangweni, Jiang Chen1 and Smith Cheung1

The NYC Department of Health, 933 39th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11219 and 1 Chinese-American Association of New York City, 65—69 Lispenard St, 2nd Fl., New York, NY 10013, USA

Address for correspondence: Wei Yue Sun Research and Development Unit Family Health Services The NYC Department of Health 933 39th Street Brooklyn, NY 11219 USA

This study applied the PRECEDE model to investigate dietary predisposing, enabling, reinforcing factors and dietary behavior among Chinese-American college students with a community-based nutrition education program (Group 1), and those without the program (Group 2). A total of 218 students participated in the study. A PRECEDE instrument, including nutritional knowledge, perception of diet and health, dietary instruction, media influence, social support, and dietary behavior, was employed to collect pre- and post-test data. Students in Group 1 improved perception of diet and health, dietary instruction, social support, and dietary behavior significantly after joining the program. Although not significant, students in Group 1 improved nutritional knowledge and media influence after completing the program. These results suggest PRECEDE components are important in changing dietary behavior.


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