The purposes of this study were to evaluate the quality of hospital food services in view of patients in orthopedic wards and accomplish the quality improvement in hospital foodservice operations. Quantitative questionnaires for patients containing foodservice satisfaction and demographic information were developed. A survey of 8 general hospitals was undertaken and detailed information was collected from 290 patients in orthopedic wards. The collected data were processed using the SAS PC 6.12 for descriptive analysis, t-test. In demographic information of patients, 32.6% was over 50 years old and 31% was hospitalized over 30 days. 80% of patients was taking normal diet. 47.7% and 47.9% of patients showed moderate appetite and moderate pain respectively. The overall satisfaction score for patients was 3.24 out of 5, showing slightly higher level than the average score(3.00). According to foodservice involvement scores of patients, they were divided into two groups which were high involved group and low involved group. Two groups showed significant differences in taste of meals, variety of menu, punctuality of meal times, temperature of meals and portion size. The foodservice involvement factor which affected significantly patient foodservice satisfaction was 'kindness of foodservice staff'.
Appetite ; Diet ; Food Service, Hospital ; Hospitals, General ; Humans ; Meals ; Middle Aged ; Orthopedics* ; Portion Size ; Quality Improvement ; Surveys and Questionnaires

The purposes of this study were to evaluate the quality of hospital food services in view of patients in orthopedic wards and accomplish the quality improvement in hospital foodservice operations. Quantitative questionnaires for patients containing foodservice satisfaction and demographic information were developed. A survey of 8 general hospitals was undertaken and detailed information was collected from 290 patients in orthopedic wards. The collected data were processed using the SAS PC 6.12 for descriptive analysis, t-test. In demographic information of patients, 32.6% was over 50 years old and 31% was hospitalized over 30 days. 80% of patients was taking normal diet. 47.7% and 47.9% of patients showed moderate appetite and moderate pain respectively. The overall satisfaction score for patients was 3.24 out of 5, showing slightly higher level than the average score(3.00). According to foodservice involvement scores of patients, they were divided into two groups which were high involved group and low involved group. Two groups showed significant differences in taste of meals, variety of menu, punctuality of meal times, temperature of meals and portion size. The foodservice involvement factor which affected significantly patient foodservice satisfaction was 'kindness of foodservice staff'.
Appetite ; Diet ; Food Service, Hospital ; Hospitals, General ; Humans ; Meals ; Middle Aged ; Orthopedics* ; Portion Size ; Quality Improvement ; Surveys and Questionnaires

This study was to investigate the trial status of weight control with internet. A survey was carried out by self-questionnaires with 500 female university students in Seoul. The average height, weight, and PIBW(Percentage of Ideal Body Weight) of subjects were 162.2+/-4.8cm, 51.9+/-6.1kg and 93.7+/-11.0%. It appeared that 50.6% of subjects were abnormal range of body weight : in particular 43.4% of the subjects were underweight. While 80.7% of subjects have deeply interested in weight control, 63.4% of them have attempted diet. It showed that 92.9% of subjects used internet, 54.3 % of them knew internet diet site, however only 39 of subjects used internet diet program. Most subjects used internet diet program in order to acquire diet information. According to PIBW, the overweight group is higher frequency of joining internet diet program than the others group. Therefore, education of weight control was needed with internet in abnormal weight group.
Body Weight ; Diet* ; Education ; Female* ; Humans ; Internet* ; Overweight ; Seoul ; Thinness

This research was conducted to increase the customer satisfaction through the evaluation of their satisfaction in employee-feeding foodservice operations according to the types of foodservice. The questionnaires were distributed to randomly selected customers of employee-feeding foodservice 120 each at two public organizations, two companies and two colleges. SPSS was used for descriptive analysis, Cronbach's Alpha value and Anova test. Six hundred seventy eight respondents in self-managed foodservices and 660 in contracted foodservices were participated for the survey. On average, the number of male respondents(67.9%) was more than twice than the number of female respondents(32.1%). As for the age group, twenties were the major with 48.5% at self-managed foodservices, 56.2% at contracted foodservices. With the marital state of the users, 57% at self-managed foodservices, 61.2% at contracted foodservices were single, showing higher proportion of non-married users at contracted foodservices. In all categories comprising the foodservice satisfaction, significant differences were shown in the quality of foods(p<0.001), tangibility(p<0.05) and empathy(p<0.05) according to the types of foodservice. Responsiveness(2.9+/-0.87) was ranked for the highest degree of satisfaction and reliance(2.32+/-0.76) was the lowest at self-managed foodservices. The result at contracted foodservices showed the same categorical order with responsiveness(2.9+/-0.87) ranked at the first and reliance(2.32+/-0.76) at the last.
Surveys and Questionnaires ; Female ; Humans ; Male

PURPOSE: Needs for reevaluation of food code standards and regulations for cooked foods produced in restaurants and institutional foodservice to minimize risk factors leading to foodborne outbreaks are on the rise. The purpose of the study was to propose updated standards for cooked foods of restaurants by testing whether or not experts agree to include them as a standard. METHODS: Qualitative and quantitative research methods were applied via a survey by email and workshop hold for experts panel discussions. RESULTS: Seven newly proposed standards were selected as follows: (1) sanitizing vegetables and fruits with no heating process after washing, (2) rapid cooling of cooked foods after heating process, (3) monitoring cooking temperatures, (4) minimum 2 hours holding after cooking for temperature control of safety (TCS) foods without temperature control, (5) banning practices for workers such as bare hands handling of ready-to-eat foods, (6) maintaining cleanliness of food contact surfaces for disposable products, and (7) cold holding standards for sushi. CONCLUSION: The proposed proposal can be utilized as control measures for preventing foodborne illness in restaurants. However, a feasibility study should be conducted to test whether they are applicable to the field of restaurant operation.
Cooking ; Disease Outbreaks ; Education ; Electronic Mail ; Expert Testimony* ; Feasibility Studies ; Fruit ; Hand ; Heating ; Hot Temperature ; Hygiene* ; Restaurants* ; Risk Factors ; Social Control, Formal ; Vegetables