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Association of knowledge about nutrition and obesity with nutrition status and years level among preclinic years medical students.

Aims: Determining the relationship of knowledge and nutrition status among pre- clinical years medical student and relationship between body mass index and batch year. Methods: The data was collected using a questionnaire that was done between May 2012 to June 2012 at Salemba Campus, Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia. The sample from this study is using the pre-clinical years International class students of the Faculty of Medicine. To measure the knowledge of the students this research used questionnaire which comprised of basic medical knowledge of nutrition and ways to overcome or prevent overnutrition.The data of this study will be analyzed using computer with SPSS 18 program. The test used to analyse the data is nonparametric test for group comparison, which is Chi- square test. Another test that also used are spearman test and Somer‟s D test. Beforehand the data is tested using KS and shapirowilk test for homogeneity of the data. Results: There‟s a weak relation of knowledge level with BMI category (p=0,059). BMI tend to increase when knowledge level tend to increase. But almost no tendency for BMI to either increase or decrease when knowledge level is increased (p=0,109). There‟s no relation between batch year and BMI category (p=0,131). There‟s a very weak relation of batch year with BMI category (p=0,198). BMI tend to increase when batch year tend to increase. But almost no tendency for BMI to either increase or decrease in every batch year (p=0,201). Conclusion: There‟s no relation between knowledge level and body mass index category in medical school student and also there is no relation between body mass index and batch year.
Keywords:knowledge on obesity, stress, obesity, medical students.