Abstract

Worawut Saengthong, Jirawon Tanwattanakul, Toansakul Tony Santiboon.

To associate between students’ knowledge, attitude, and amount of energy gained from junk food and the nutritional status of 429 upper educational students in Surin Province with a cluster sampling technique. Students’ responses of their eating junk food were assessed their interpersonal behaviors with the Nutritional Assessment Instruments (NAI) model include; the 24-item Knowledge on Junk Food Questionnaire (KNJF), the 20-item Attitude on Junk Food Questionnaire (AJFQ), and the 24-item Guidance Junk Food Interactions (GJFI) questionnaire in five options, most of the instrument are valid and reliable. Overall, on most students (74.1%) had a high level of junk food-related knowledge. The majority of them (94.9%) reported a moderate level of attitudes towards junk food consumption. Most students had junk food before lunch and common foods were carbonated drinks and sweetened beverages every day. Students were given 74.25 THB to spend at school and they paid 31.48 THB on junk food whereas their schools. The correlations between students’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Amounting Energy Acquirements from Junk Food and Nutritional Status for the KNJF, AJFO, and GJFI towards nutritional statuses on three groups; normal nutritional, lower nutritional, and over nutritional statuses. The NAI was created the general data of sample target; students’ responses of their knowledge to their attitudes towards their nutritional statuses through their eating behaviors on junk food were assessed with the KNJF, AJFO, and GJFI questionnaires among three instruments were relative, significantly were associated.