Aral Oğulcan, Cufadar Yusuf, Kadan Gül, Aral Neriman, Aysu Burçin
Independent Researcher, ORSER, Ankara, Türkiye.
Department of Animal science, Faculty of Agriculture, Selcuk University, Konya, Türkiye.
Front Nutr. 2025 Jun 25;12:1619260. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2025.1619260. eCollection 2025.
Organic nutrition and its variant organic animal products constitute one of the most important areas of nutrition today. The consumption of organic animal products, which are known to make significant contributions to strengthening the immune system and ensuring a balanced and adequate diet, becomes even more important, especially for the development of children. For this reason, it is necessary to determine the extent of knowledge of child development specialist candidates, who work with children and families and have significant effects on children's development, about organic animal products. Based on this idea, the aim of the research was to examine the knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of university students studying at universities that provide associate and undergraduate child development education in Türkiye through the screening method. The screening model, which is one of the quantitative research methods, was used in the study and it was conducted with the students of the child development department who continue their associate and undergraduate education in the child development program throughout Türkiye. The data were collected with the "Knowledge, Attitude and Behavior Survey Form for Organic Animal Products" developed by Aral and Çufadar. As a result of the study, it was determined that the scores of male students, those with a birth date of 2000 and below, associate degree students, those who know organic products, those who consume organic products, and those who look at the certificate when buying organic products were significantly higher in the behavioral dimension. In addition, in the attitude dimension, it was also found that the scores of those with a birth date of 2000 and below, those who consume organic products and have knowledge about organic products, those who look at the certificate when buying organic products and associate degree students were significantly higher. Moreover, it was concluded that there was a weak relationship between knowledge and behavior dimensions and attitude dimension. Based on the results obtained from the study, it can be suggested that students should be informed about organic animal products and necessary measures should be taken to facilitate access to these products.
有机营养及其变体有机动物产品构成了当今最重要的营养领域之一。众所周知，有机动物产品对增强免疫系统和确保均衡充足的饮食有重大贡献，其消费变得更加重要，尤其是对儿童的发育而言。因此，有必要确定与儿童和家庭打交道并对儿童发展有重大影响的儿童发展专家候选人对有机动物产品的了解程度。基于这一想法，该研究的目的是通过筛选方法，考察在土耳其提供专科和本科儿童发展教育的大学就读的大学生对有机动物产品的知识、态度和行为。该研究采用了作为定量研究方法之一的筛选模型，研究对象是在土耳其各地儿童发展项目中继续接受专科和本科教育的儿童发展系学生。数据通过阿拉尔和屈法达尔编制的“有机动物产品知识、态度和行为调查问卷”收集。研究结果显示，在行为维度上，男生、出生日期在2000年及以下的学生、专科生、了解有机产品的学生、消费有机产品的学生以及购买有机产品时查看证书的学生得分显著更高。此外，在态度维度上，还发现出生日期在2000年及以下的学生、消费有机产品且了解有机产品的学生、购买有机产品时查看证书的学生以及专科生得分显著更高。而且，研究得出知识维度与行为维度以及态度维度之间存在弱相关关系的结论。基于该研究获得的结果，可以建议应向学生介绍有机动物产品，并应采取必要措施以方便获取这些产品。
