Table 3 Mean score of food and nutrition literacy, its domains and dimensions by categories of some possible determinant factors
From: Food and nutrition literacy status and its correlates in Iranian senior high-school students
Mean ± SD | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total FNL and its domains | Skill dimensions | |||||||
Total FNL | Knowledge score | Skill score | Functional score | Interactive score | Critical analysis of information score | Advocacy score | Food label reading score | |
Major * | ||||||||
Literature and Humanities | 51.88 ± 11.5 | 42.79 ± 15.3a | 53.99 ± 12.3 | 60.37 ± 18.7 | 45.28 ± 19.5 | 56.87 ± 15.0 | 54.41 ± 19.8 | 40.50 ± 31.8a |
Natural Sciences | 51.82 ± 10.2 | 48.97 ± 12.7b | 53.44 ± 11.1 | 59.63 ± 17.6 | 43.23 ± 17.7 | 55.99 ± 16.2a | 55.06 ± 20.4 | 44.74 ± 33.9 |
Mathematics | 51.64 ± 11.1 | 47.24 ± 15.4b | 52.45 ± 12.1 | 57.40 ± 19.3 | 41.72 ± 18.1 | 59.92 ± 16.7b | 52.27 ± 20.1 | 50.93 ± 32.47b |
School type† | ||||||||
public | 51.99 ± 11.1 | 45.83 ± 14.4a | 53.23 ± 12.1 | 58.81 ± 18.2 | 43.44 ± 18.6 | 56.99 ± 15.3a | 54.64 ± 20.1 | 47.69 ± 31.6 |
private | 52.38 ± 10.4 | 49.14 ± 15.1b | 52.94 ± 11.1 | 58.95 ± 19.5 | 42.15 ± 17.7 | 60.00 ± 18.1b | 51.49 ± 20.1 | 46.48 ± 36.2 |
Nutrition related disease† | ||||||||
Don’t have | 51.95 ± 11.0 | 46.58 ± 14.6 | 52.98 ± 11.9 | 58.36 ± 18.6 | 43.32 ± 18.4 | 57.39 ± 16.1a | 53.73 ± 20.2 | 48.03 ± 32.8 |
Have | 53.44 ± 10.5 | 48.49 ± 15.1 | 54.34 ± 11.1 | 62.44 ± 18.7 | 41.11 ± 17.7 | 61.44 ± 16.8b | 53.60 ± 20.1 | 42.22 ± 34.3 |
Nutrition related disease in family† | ||||||||
Don’t have | 51.87 ± 10.9 | 46.63 ± 14.8 | 52.91 ± 11.8 | 58.25 ± 18.1 | 42.77 ± 18.7 | 58.36 ± 15.99 | 53.51 ± 20.2 | 47.09 ± 33.0 |
Have | 52.61 ± 11.0 | 47.21 ± 14.4 | 53.65 ± 11.8 | 60.16 ± 19.8 | 43.69 ± 17.7 | 56.80 ± 16.8 | 54.17 ± 20.2 | 47.86 ± 33.1 |