Abstract:

This research was prepared in order to determine the knowledge, attitudes and behaviors about nutrition of the families of disabled children. This research population constitute Elazig city and the samples constitute 3 special education schools in the province of Elazig. For the data acquisition was used the questionnaire which consists of four sections. The personal information for families consist of 11 items in the first part, the personal information of the children who are incorporated the research consist of 5 items in the second part, the information for the daily diet consist of 3 items in the third part and for the details related to the child's feeding behavior consist of 11 questions in the fourth part. 250 questionnaireswere sent to familiesfor research, but 122 of them were returned.SPSS 15 statistical program was used for the analysis of research data, the level of significance was taken as 0.05.As statistical analysis was shown the personal information’s of families and children who are involved in research and the frequencies and percentage distributionsrelated to the daily nutrition information. For the detection of the differences between the scores which are obtained from the scale and the other factors were applied "T test" and"one-way variance analysis"(anova test). Finally, it was observed that the average of the scores which obtained from the scalefor the information’s about feeding behaviors of the children who participated in the research is near to the lowest average which is obtained generally from the scale. This case suggests that the attitudes towards nutritionof the families and children who included in the research are low. Forming our research group of this particular group of healthy nutrition with nutritional information both in terms of their own health as well as future generations will be important.

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