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Awareness and Practice of Dietary Action Guide for Adolescence among Middle and High School Students in Korea


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Awareness and Practice of Dietary Action Guide for Adolescence among Middle and High School Students in Korea

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Korean J Community Nutr. 2012;17(2):133-145
Publication date (electronic) : 2012 April 30
doi : https://doi.org/10.5720/kjcn.2012.17.2.133
So-Hyun Park, Hae-Ryun Park, Soo-Bin Jeon, So-Yeon Jeong, Zuunnast Tserendejid, Jung-Sook Seo1, Kyung-Hae Lee2, Yeon-Kyung Lee3
Department of Food and Nutrition, Myongji University, Gyeonggi, Korea.
1Department of Food and Nutrition, Yeungnam University, Gyeongbuk, Korea.
2Department of Food and Nutrition, Changwon National University, Gyeongnam, Korea.
3Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea.
Corresponding author: Haeryun Park, Department of Food and Nutrition, Myongji University, San 38-2, Nam-Dong, Cheoin-Gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-Do 449-728, Korea. Tel: (031) 330-6204, Fax: (031) 335-7248, hrpark@mju.ac.kr
Received 2012 February 07; Revised 2012 February 27; Accepted 2012 March 16.

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to examine the adolescents' awareness and practice of Dietary Action Guide for Adolescence, which was developed by the Ministry of Health & Welfare. Subjects were middle and high school students, selected one class each from all of the 16 provinces in Korea, which were 32 schools and 998 students all together. The subjects were asked to self-evaluate the degree of awareness and practice of Dietary Action Guide using the 5 point-Likert scale from July to September, 2010. On average, 55.1% of the students responded that they were aware of the Dietary Action Guide and 49.4% answered that they put Guidelines into practice. The average score of awareness and practice were 3.54 ± 0.24 and 3.42 ± 0.33, respectively. The awareness score was higher than those of practice score in all the questions in the 6 categories. Awareness score of female students was higher than those of male students but there was no difference by residence area. Awareness and practice of the nutrition education-experienced were higher than those of the inexperienced. Practice score was higher among middle school-students compared to high school students, which reflected the opportunity of taking nutrition related classes. This finding shows that nutrition education for adolescents is important to change their dietary behaviors regardless of gender, residence area and school level.

Keywords: dietary action guide; awareness; practice; nutrition education

Notes

This research was supported by the grant from the Korea Health Promotion Foundation.

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Table 1

Demographic characteristics of subjects

Table 1

Table 2

Frequency of awareness of dietary action guide

Table 2

1) N (%)

Table 3

Frequency of practicing dietary action guide

Table 3

1) N (%)

Table 4

Comparison of awareness and practice of dietary action guide

Table 4

1) Mean ± SD

**: p < 0.01, ***: p < 0.001

Table 5

Awareness of dietary action guide by gender, residence area, school level and nutrition education experience

Table 5

1) Mean ± SD

2) Not significant

*: p < 0.05, **: p < 0.01, ***: p < 0.001

Table 6

Put dietary action guide into practice by gender, residence area, school level and nutrition education experience

Table 6

1) Mean ± SD

2) Not significant

*: p < 0.05, **: p < 0.01, ***: p < 0.001