A Study on the Knowledge of Nutrition and Eating Habits of Junior and Senior High School Female Teachers

중(中).고등학교(高等學校) 여교사(女敎師)의 영양지식(營養知識)과 식습관(食習慣)에 관(關)한 연구(硏究)

The purpose of this study was to present the basic data for the education of nutrition to female teachers by surveying the degree of nutritional knowledge, the attitute toward nutrition and eating habits of the female teachers, and analyzing the present dietary food. 1. The average score of their nutritional knowledge was 17.53 (the highest mark was 25) and the percentage of the right answers was 73.6. 2. The nutritional knowledge was related to their ages, and whether or not they majored in domestic science. Younger and domestic science majors scores of nutitional knowledge were shown to be higher. 3. They had dinner more regularly than breakfast or lunch and the score of nutritional knowledge was higher in proportion to the regularity of their breakfasts. As nutritional knowledge was reflected in their daily lives and bread was used as a substitute of their meals, the degree of their nutritional knowledge was higher. 4. For self evaluation of nutritional knowledge, the higher the score of their nutritional knowledge was, the more they thought they knew and those with high scores seemed to get information about nutrition through specialized books and cookbooks.