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%X Background: Healthy eating during the Coronavirus Pandemic (Covid-19) is important for maintaining a healthy body. 
Eating patterns that need attention are the consumption of vegetables, fruit, sugar, salt, fat, and water. 
Objective: The study aims to analyze the relationship between age groups, knowledge, and education level with the 
nutritional behavior of Bengkulu people in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Method: This study used a cross-sectional design with a sample of 966 people aged 16 years and over and residing in 
Bengkulu Province. Questionnaire in the form of e-survey with Google form. Chi-square test was used to analyze the 
relationship between age groups, knowledge, and education level with nutritional behaviour. 
Results: The results showed that 85.2% of respondents in the age group < 25 years had poor nutritional behavior. More 
than 50% of respondents consume fruits and vegetables as well as salt, oil, and sugar that were not following good 
nutritional behavior. 98.2% of respondents thought that Covid-19 would eventually be successfully controlled. Age (OR = 1,588; 95% CI: 1,032 - 2,444) was significantly related to nutritional behavior while knowledge (OR = 0.862; 95% CI: 0.322-2,303) and education level (OR = 1,297; 95% CI: 0.910 - 1,849) were not related to nutritional behavior.
Conclusion: Good nutritional behavior needs to be applied to the age group < 25 years to prevent and reduce 
transmission of the COVID-19 outbreak.
%L repository14477
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%A AF Ahmad Faridi
%I Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
%J Annals of Tropical Medicine and Public Health
%P 124-129
%T Relationship of Age, Knowledge, Level of Education to 
Nutritional Behavior in Facing the Covid-19 Pandemic in 
Bengkulu Province
%D 2021
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