Perception of the Elementary School Dietitians and Students on Nutrition Education to Set up the Roles of Nutrition Teacher : Centered on Daegu City and Gyeongbuk Province.
- Author:
In Sook BAE
1
;
Kyung Hee SHIN
;
Yeon Kyung LEE
;
Sung Kook LEE
Author Information
1. Kyungpook National University's Attached Elementary School, Korea. beainsook@hanmail.net
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Dietitian's duties;
Nutrition teacher;
Elementary school;
Nutrition education
- MeSH:
Child;
Cooking;
Daegu*;
Diet;
Education*;
Food Habits;
Food Safety;
Gyeongsangbuk-do*;
Humans;
Nutritionists*
- From:Journal of the Korean Dietetic Association
2005;11(4):393-404
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
The purpose of this study was getting information to set up the new roles focused on nutrition education for school dietitians as nutrition teachers. One hundred thirty nine school dietitians and 1169 elementary school children residing in Daegu city and Gyeongbuk province were surveyed for this study. Sixty eight percent of the school dietitians perceived 1st-3rd year of the elementary school is the most proper time to start nutrition education, and 59.0% of them wanted to practice nutrition education as a discretion teaching time. The largest proportion(79.1%) of the school dietitians expected that nutrition education is helpful to get good dietary habit. School dietitians responded that major contents that should be included in the nutrition education was balanced diet, diet and habit, managing healthy weight, dining etiquette, food safety and problems of environmental contamination. Fairly large proportion of the students(64.4%) responded nutrition education is urgently needed. The contents of the nutrition education students wanted most were cooking and healthy diet. Forty six percent of the students perceived school dietitians are responsible for nutrition education and they wanted to have nutrition education as a part of special activity class. The most preferred frequency of nutrition education was 1 hour/week and 46.2% of the students responded they wanted to participate cooking camp.
