Resumen de Relationship between the hydric and nutritional knowledge of water and health in students of a Spanish penal institution

Agustín Pozo Tamayo, Javier Cubero Juánez

• Introduction: Students consider that water ingested during meals fattens and they therefore reduce their consumption. Health Education (HE) diagnosed the erroneous previous knowledge of Hydration and Nutrition to avoid unhealthy habits and adopted a healthy hydric-nutritional style (Pozo et al., 2015).

  Objective: To detect the hydric-nutritional knowledge of water and its impact on health.

  Method: From 803 prisoners, we selected a sample size of 30 students of the Penal Institution of Badajoz. A questionnaire which was validated and analyzed quantitatively (α=95%) with the SPSS program and qualitatively with the program NVivo was used, with three variables: gender, age and Body Index Mass (BIM).

  Results: Quantitatively, male students (p=0.001), of 18-27 and 38-47 years (p=0.040) in age and overweight (p=0.000) have more erroneous hydric-nutritional knowledge. Qualitatively, according to gender, 86.6% considered to have conceptual errors, and depending on the age and gender, 80% and 73.3% considers that interventions should be performed in HE.

  Conclusions: The investigated students’ present erroneous hydric-nutritional knowledge; students consider that water consumption contributes to their weight and that ingested water does not have an impact on their hydration status. It is necessary to carry out interventions in HE to improve their knowledge and their healthy state.