Authors : Funda P nar Cakirolu and Roya Saharifi Vashfam
Abstract: This research has been planned in order to determine nutritional knowledge levels of married women living in the districts that represent middle socio-economic levels of Ankara of Turkey and Tabriz of Iran. Totally 300 women of which 150 live in Ankara and 150 live in Tabriz who have minimum high school education level have been involved in this research. Research findings have been collected by using face to face interviewig technique. In the questionnaire, there are questions related to the demographic characteristics and nutritional knowledge of subjects. The assesment has been made by giving 2.5 points to each correct answer. In order to determine the difference that depends on the variable chi-square and variance analysis have been applied. The findings show that nutritional knowledge points average of women from Tabriz is 28.75�5.83 and this figure for Turkish women is 24.98�6.15 (p< 0.01). It has been found that the nutritional knowledge of 51.3% of women from Tabriz is �enough`, of 48.0% is �moderate` besides of 65.3% of women from Ankara is �moderate`, of 28.0% is `enough` (p< 0.01).
Funda P nar Cakirolu and Roya Saharifi Vashfam , 2007. Nutritional Knowledge Levels of Married Women Living in Turkey and Iran: A Cross-Cultural Comparison . Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences, 4: 565-571.