Korean Journal of Community Nutrition (대한지역사회영양학회지)

The Korean Society of Community Nutrition (대한지역사회영양학회)
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Effects of School Lunch Program on Nutritional Knowledge and Attitude, and Dietary Behavior of Korean Middle School Students

학교급식이 남녀 중학생의 영양 지식과 태도, 식행동에 미치는 영향

  • Oh Yoo-Mi (Jellabukdo Provincial Office of Education, Jellabukdo, Korea) ;
  • Kim Mi-Hyun (Department of Food and Nutrition, Samcheok National University) ;
  • Sung Chung-Ja (Department of Food and Nutrition, Sookmyung Women's University)
  • Published : 2005.04.01
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Abstract

School Lunch Program (SLP) should provide adequate and qualitative nutritional food for student's growth and proper food habit. With this fact, this study divided 524 middle school students who resided in Jeonju, Jellabukdo into two groups, SLP or non SLP according to whether they were provided SLP or not. Then this research estimate each group's nutritional knowledge, nutritional attitude, dietary behavior, balance of three meals, and health checking their clinical symptom to investigate the effects of the SLP. This research applied anthropometric data, questionnaires and food intake data using 24 hours recall method. Each group's age average was same as 14.0 years old respectively. The average score of nutritional knowledge and condition of balance of lunch were significantly higher in SLP group than those of non-SLP group, although, there were no significant differences in the scores of nutritional attitude, dietary behavior, and balance of breakfast and dinner within both groups. This research showed that SLP had positive role on nutritional knowledge and balanced lunch. However, current SLP is not sufficient to cause change the nutritional attitude and dietary behavior. To make more applicable and effective result of SLP leading nutritional attitude changes and development of appropriate dietary behavior, certain level of nutritional education to the student may be important.

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