The consumption behavior and the nursing students’perceptions of impacts on weight loss products consumption.

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to study the consumption behavior and the nursing students’perceptions of impacts on weight loss products consumption. The research instrument was questionnaire collected from nursing students from the Faculty of Nursing (totally N=260 samplings). The statistics for data analyzing are frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation.

The results were as follows:

1. The majority of nursing students had no weight loss products consumption, i.e. 144 sampling (55.38%) whereas 116 sampling (44.62%) had weight loss products consumption.
2. The majority of nursing students had herb products consumption, i.e. 102 sampling (87.93%) and 14 sampling (12.07%) had chemical products consumption.
3. The majority of nursing students have chosen to buy herb products, i.e.103 sampling (88.79%) and only 13 sampling (11.21%) have used chemical products.
4. The majority of nursing students had diet as objective, i.e. 103 sampling (88.79%) and only 13 sampling (11.21%) had beauty as objective.
5. For the majority of nursing students, i.e. 64 sampling (55.17%), the frequency of consumption was more than 1 time/month whereas for 25 sampling (21.55%), the frequency was 1 time/month.
6. The majority of nursing students have chosen to buy their products from mail order, i.e. 74 sampling (63.79%) where as 35 sampling (30.17%) have chosen to buy from pharmacies.
7. The nursing students’ perceptions of impacts on weight loss products consumption was in moderate level (  = 3.90, SD = 0.41) on neurotic, yoyo effect and heart work overload from weight loss products consumption behavior.

The conclusion of this research found that 44.62% of sampling had weight loss products consumption and the perceptions of impacts on weight loss products consumption was in only moderate level. The results of this research can be used as basic information for planning and developing in nursing for promote the perceptions of impacts on weight loss products consumption.