Associations between socio-demographics, nutrition knowledge, nutrition competencies and attitudes in community-dwelling healthy older adults in Singapore: findings from the SHIELD study

• Published in: Journal of health, population and nutrition Vol. 40; no. 1; p. 52
• Main Authors: Ong, Rebecca Hui San, Chow, Wai Leng, Cheong, Magdalin, Lim, Gladys Huiyun, Xie, Weiyi, Baggs, Geraldine, Huynh, Dieu Thi Thu, Oh, Hong Choon, How, Choon How, Tan, Ngiap-Chuan, Tey, Siew Ling, Chew, Samuel Teong Huang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bangladesh BioMed Central Ltd 11.12.2021; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Ability; Academic achievement; Access; Adults; Age differences; Aged; Attitude; Attitudes; Bivariate analysis; Body mass index; Caregivers; Community; Community-dwelling; Competence; Cross-Sectional Studies; Cross-sectional study; Decisions; Demographic variables; Demographics; Demography; Disease; Earnings; Educational programs; Ethnic factors; Ethnic groups; Female; Females; Food; Friendship; Habits; Health education; Health literacy; Health Status; Housing; Humans; Independent Living; Information processing; Knowledge; Male; Males; Malnutrition; Minority & ethnic groups; Minority groups; Motivation; Nourished; Nutrition; Nutrition education; Nutrition knowledge; Nutritional status; Older adults; Older people; Population; Questionnaires; Regression analysis; Regression models; Resampling; Singapore; Sociodemographics; Undernutrition; Singapore; China; Community-dwelling; Cross-sectional study; Nourished; Nutrition knowledge; Older adults

Nutrition literacy refers to an individual's knowledge, motivation and competencies to access, process and understand nutrition information to make nutrition-related decisions. It is known to influence dietary habits of individuals including older adults. This cross-sectional study was designed...