Nutrition knowledge of health club instructors and health club members

Includes bibliographical references (pages 60-63)People today are becoming increasingly concerned\ud about health, nutrition and exercise in our society. One\ud expression of this can be seen in the popularity and\ud patronage of the health club facilities. Health club\ud instructors are in a position and environment to disseminate\ud nutritional information to a captive audience. The\ud purpose of this study was to determine if there was a\ud difference in nutritional knowledge between health club\ud instructors and health club members. One hundred and sixty-seven people participated in the study. The subjects were comprised of 25 health club\ud instructors and 142 health club members. A questionnaire\ud designed to assess nutrition knowledge and to collect\ud demographic data was administered. The Student's "t" Test, the Pearson's Product Moment Correlation Coefficient,\ud Chi Square Analysis and frequencies were used to\ud analyze the data. It was found that there was a\ud significant difference in nutrition knowledge between\ud health club instructors and health club members at the\ud 0.05 level of significance. Instructors achieved significantly\ud higher scoies than members did on the nutrition\ud knowledge test. A positive correlation was found between\ud actual nutrition knowledge and perceived nutrition knowledge\ud for the member participants, but not for the\ud instructors. A positive correlation was also found\ud between the number of nutrition classes taken and the\ud level of nutrition knowledge for both the health club\ud instructors and members