标题：A Survey Of Awareness Of Nutritional Values And Feeding Practices Among Secondary Schools Teachers In Nigeria: Implications For Enhanced Teachers’ Productivity
摘要：This study adopted cross-sectional survey and examined the structure of secondary school teachers’ awareness of nutritional values and adoption of proper feeding practices for enhanced productivity. The population comprised all 8,465 secondary school teachers. Using a previously validated nutritional values questionnaire, data were collected from 847 teachers proportionately sampled from selected secondary schools in Nigeria. The sample was split into two categories male and female (n1 = 340 and n2 = 507) to allow for the factor analysis procedure. A 30-item structured questionnaire titled “levels of awareness of nutritional values, attitude and adoption proper feeding practices among teachers (LANVAAPFP)” instrument was adapted and used for data collection. Data collected for the study were analyzed using mean scores and standard deviation to answer the research questions while z-test statistic was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The study revealed that teachers’ awareness of the nutritional values and proper feeding practices is not yet widespread among teachers. It was also found that teachers do not adopt proper feeding practices based on their low awareness of nutritional values. The result confirmed the study’s hypotheses regarding low level of awareness and readiness to adopt proper feeding practices. After the analysis few suggestions have been given which could enhance the adoption of proper feeding practices among secondary school teachers .
关键词：Nutritional value;feeding practices;awareness;teachers and Productivity
