Parents‘ of children, attending Kaunas preschool educational institutions, knowledge about healthy nutrition and their relation with nutrition habits

Purpose of the work is to estimate parents’ of children, attending Kaunas preschool educational institutions, knowledge about healthy nutrition and their relation with nutrition habits. Tasks of the work: estimate parents’ of children, attending Kaunas preschool educational institutions, knowledge about healthy nutrition; To analyze nutrition habits of parents of children, attending Kaunas preschool educational institutions; to estimate relation between parents’ of children, attending Kaunas preschool educational institutions, knowledge about healthy nutrition and nutrition habits. Methods of the research. Parents’ of children, attending Kaunas preschool educational institutions, questionnaire survey was performed in May-June, 2011. 590 questionnaires were divided (response rate 59,2 %). Questionnaire consisted of 30 questions, which were divided into three parts: knowledge about healthy nutrition, nutrition habits and social-demographical questions. Statistical data analysis was performed with SPSS (12.0 version) data analysis software. χ2 ir z criteria were estimated to estimate the significance of statistical data, discrepancy was considered to be significant when p