Nutrition Knowledge among College of Basic Education Students in Kuwait: A Cross-Sectional Study

Table 3

Nutrition knowledge of students (section 2 in the questionnaire) based on original Bloom’s cutoff point.

Knowledge scores	Bloom’s cutoff
Knowledge section (2)	Min	Max	Mean ± SD	Poor, n (%)	Moderate, n (%)	High, n (%)
P1	1	14	8.42 ± 2.44	473 (79.2)	118 (19.8)	6 (1.0)
P2	0	30	17.25 ± 5.41	460 (77.1)	132 (22.1)	5 (0.8)
P3	0	10	4.86 ± 1.93	379 (63.5)	168 (28.1)	50 (8.4)
P4	0	17	9.53 ± 3.07	500 (83.8)	94 (15.7)	3 (0.5)
Total	5	64	40.06 ± 9.89	502 (84.1)	95 (15.9)	0 (0.0)

P1: dietary recommendations, maximum score = 17; P2: sources of nutrients, maximum score = 36; P3: everyday healthy food choices, maximum score = 10; P4: diet-disease relationship, maximum score = 21. Total nutrition knowledge = 84.