Table 3.

Mean score of food and nutrition literacy, its domains and dimensions by categories of some possible determinant factors

	Mean ± SD
	Total FNL and its domains			Skill dimensions
	Total FNL	Knowledge score	Skill score	Functional score	Interactive score	Critical analysis of information score	Advocacy score	Food label reading score
Major ^*
Literature and Humanities	51.88 ± 11.5	42.79 ± 15.3^a	53.99 ± 12.3	60.37 ± 18.7	45.28 ± 19.5	56.87 ± 15.0	54.41 ± 19.8	40.50 ± 31.8^a
Natural Sciences	51.82 ± 10.2	48.97 ± 12.7^b	53.44 ± 11.1	59.63 ± 17.6	43.23 ± 17.7	55.99 ± 16.2^a	55.06 ± 20.4	44.74 ± 33.9
Mathematics	51.64 ± 11.1	47.24 ± 15.4^b	52.45 ± 12.1	57.40 ± 19.3	41.72 ± 18.1	59.92 ± 16.7^b	52.27 ± 20.1	50.93 ± 32.47^b
School type^†
public	51.99 ± 11.1	45.83 ± 14.4^a	53.23 ± 12.1	58.81 ± 18.2	43.44 ± 18.6	56.99 ± 15.3^a	54.64 ± 20.1	47.69 ± 31.6
private	52.38 ± 10.4	49.14 ± 15.1^b	52.94 ± 11.1	58.95 ± 19.5	42.15 ± 17.7	60.00 ± 18.1^b	51.49 ± 20.1	46.48 ± 36.2
Nutrition related disease^†
Don’t have	51.95 ± 11.0	46.58 ± 14.6	52.98 ± 11.9	58.36 ± 18.6	43.32 ± 18.4	57.39 ± 16.1^a	53.73 ± 20.2	48.03 ± 32.8
Have	53.44 ± 10.5	48.49 ± 15.1	54.34 ± 11.1	62.44 ± 18.7	41.11 ± 17.7	61.44 ± 16.8^b	53.60 ± 20.1	42.22 ± 34.3
Nutrition related disease in family^†
Don’t have	51.87 ± 10.9	46.63 ± 14.8	52.91 ± 11.8	58.25 ± 18.1	42.77 ± 18.7	58.36 ± 15.99	53.51 ± 20.2	47.09 ± 33.0
Have	52.61 ± 11.0	47.21 ± 14.4	53.65 ± 11.8	60.16 ± 19.8	43.69 ± 17.7	56.80 ± 16.8	54.17 ± 20.2	47.86 ± 33.1

Nutrition related disease; suffering from diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, cardiovascular diseases and cancer

^{a, b} Values with different superscript are significantly different (p < 0.05)

^*Statistical significance of means difference was examined using One-Way ANOVA

^†Statistical significance of means difference was examined using Student’s t-test