Research Article
General and Postbariatric Nutritional Knowledge among Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery
Table 2
Bariatric patients’ GNKQ scores and general nutritional knowledge level (n = 112).
| | Knowledge domain (max possible score) | Mean | SD | Min | Max | Lower knowledge (<50% percentile) | Medium knowledge (50–75% percentile) | Higher knowledge (>75% percentile) | | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) |
| | Part 1: dietary recommendations (17) | 9 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 38 (34) | 63 (56) | 11 (10) | | Part 2: food groups (34) | 16 | 6 | 0 | 28 | 52 (46) | 55 (49) | 5 (4) | | Part 3: healthy food choices (13) | 6 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 57 (51) | 46 (41) | 9 (8) | | Part 4: diet, disease, and weight associations (21) | 10 | 4 | 0 | 18 | 50 (45) | 54 (48) | 8 (7) | | Total: nutrition knowledge score (85) | 42 | 13 | 1 | 67 | 45 (40) | 66 (59) | 1 (1) |
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