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Abstract

A STUDY ON SATISFACTION AND NEEDS OF NUTRITION EDUCATION IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS OF ULSAN AREA

Jee Sun Yun

Graduate School of Education Pukyong National University

Abstract This study was conducted to investigate the satisfaction and the needs of nutrition education for elementary school by making use of questionnaires. The participants were 327 students(3th grade: 132, 5th grade: 195) of 3 elementary schools in ULSAN, which have conducted nutrition education 3times per year. Therefore, this study shows that the satisfaction and the needs of nutrition education is affected by students characteristics and experience of nutrition education. In addition, these results can be the basis source for the effectiveness of nutrition education by providing applicable date to the nutrition education field. The results of this study are as follows. 1) The Satisfaction on nutrition education provides the highest score the number of classes of ‘Moderate(60.2%)’, Tools and audio-visual materials of 'Satisfaction(52.3%)', The content levels of 'Moderate(67.3%)' Interest compared to other subjects of 'Interest(46.5%)'. The reason of 'Uninterest' is attributed to 'No experience activities(3.74/5.00)' and 'Be ignorant of importance(3.05/5.00)'. The most interesting subject was 'Prevent unbalanced diet'(4.26/5.00).

2) The satisfaction on nutrition education indicate that Tools and audio-visual materials of 'Junior students' showed a significant increase(p<0.05). and Interest compared to other subjects of showed a significant difference(p<0.001). Experienced students showed a significant increase(p<0.05) in 'satisfaction on Tools and audio-visual materials' and 'Interest compared to other subjects'.

3) Helping on the eating habit following nutrition education provide the highest score ‘Essential nutrients(3.97/5.00)'. and followed by 'Importance of breakfast(3.93/5.00)'.

4) Perception on the nutrition education provide points the willingness to 'Nutrition education re-class' 3.80/5.00, 'Nutrition education necessity' 4.02/5.00. Experienced students showed a higher increase(p<0.001) than unexperienced students in the willingness to 'Nutrition education re-class(4.03)' and 'Nutrition education necessity(4.12)'. In 'Recommendation other friends to attend nutrition education', 77.6% of participants said they would recommend other friends to attend nutrition education. Female(87.8%) are much higher than men(67.5%) in terms of recommendation willingness. also experienced students (86.0%) are even higher than unexperienced students(55.6%)

5) Students who are satisfied with 'Tools and audio-visual materials' and satisfied with 'Interest compared to other subjects' showed much significant increase(p<0.01) students who showed 'Moderate' or 'Dissatisfaction' in the willingness to 'Nutrition education re-class(4.26/5.00)' and 'Nutrition education necessity(4.33/5.00).' In Recommendation other friends to attend nutrition education, students(85.2%) who are satisfied with 'Tools and audio-visual materials' showed much significant increase(p<0.01) than unsatisfied students. and students(90.0%) who responded to 'Interest' in the Interest compared to other subjects showed much significant increase(p<0.001) than students who had uninterest of 'willingness'

6) Student's desired number of class in 'nutrition education necessity' were 1~2times per month(48.4%), above 1 time per week(36.4%), below 1 time per semester(15.2%). In terms of number of class, 3th grade students showed much higher preference than 5th grade students. and experienced students showed much higher preference than unexperienced students. With regard to method of nutrition education, 'Make meals(28.9%) got the highest point, and then 'See the video(14.2%)', 'Animal breeding experiment(14.0%)'. Pertainning to desired contents of nutrition education, the results were 'Food for great height(4.21/5.00)', 'Method for my favorite food(4.13/5.00)' and 'Disease caused by food(4.03).' The most desired 'Contents of nutrition education' depend on gender, grade, experience of nutrition education. In the near future, it is advisable that we should deal with various fields.

In conclusion, in terms of nutrition education junior students showed significant increase in the 'Interest compared to other subjects'. therefore it is recommended that we should early implementation. since much education experience lead to improved diet habit, we should expand 'nutrition education experience' regardless of grade. Students want to take class 1~2 times per month. Desired 'contents of nutrition education' bank on gender, grade, experience of nutrition education. Concerning 'Method of class', they want activity class through instead of teacher explanation. also once they satisfied with 'Tools and audio-visual materials' and 'Interest compared to other subjects', they can improve diet habit. It is imperative that we develop various Tools and audio-visual materials in nutrition education program composition. In addition to this, we have search for interesting class instead of only knowledge delivery. Based on this study, the necessity of following study is as follows. Although this study restricted schools related to public health center in ULSAN, the following study will include all parts of country. We should generalize the study results by researching various nutrition education cases(discretion activity, nutrition consulting, and so on) on the satisfaction and the needs of nutrition.