Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Frequency (%)
Survey distributed via email to all students and faculty members from the College of 17.3% 53.8% 30
Health Sciences at West Chester University of Pennsylvania 25 21.1 21.1
42.9% 20 17.8 17.1
MEASUREMENTS 15 12.4 12.4
10.5
Qualtrics Survey containing 17 questions assessed nutrition knowledge, opinions on Disagree No Opinion Agree 0 1 2-5 6-10 11-14 15 or more 10 5.4
gluten-free diets, and basic demographics 5 0 0
Majority of respondents took 7-14 minutes to complete the survey Figure 4. Number of Nutrition Courses Taken by Participants 0
Nutrition Nursing Health Kinesiology Comm. Sci. Sports Med.
45 Department
40
40 36.2
Table 1. Participant Demographics Figure 1. Age Range of Participants
Frequency (%)
35
Characteristics Percent (%) 70
CONCLUSION:
30 26.2
Frequency (%)
60 57.4 25 A small, but non-significant, correlation was found between nutrition education
Gender 25
Female 84.7 50 20 Students and opinions of EGFD.
40 20 16.9
Male 14.7 Faculty
30 15
10 10 Future research should include a larger sample size and increased inclusion of
Ethnicity 20 16.9 12.2 10 7.7
8.1 5.4 5 faculty and post-graduate students.
Caucasian/White 91.3 10 5 3.1
African American 4.0 0 0
Hispanic 2.0 0 References:
18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-65
Asian/Pacific Islander 1.3
Age (years)
0 1 2-5 6 - 10 11 - 14 15 or more Hyun-seok, K., Patel, K. G., Orosz, E., Kothari, N., Demyen, M. F., Pyrsopoulos, N., & ... Kim, H. (2016). Time Trends in the Prevalence of
Celiac Disease and Gluten-Free Diet in the US Population: Results From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys
Number of Nutrition Courses 2009-2014. JAMA Internal Medicine, 176(11), 1716-1717. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.5254