The purpose of this his study is to examine the influence of nutrition education program on the children's nutrition knowledge and food habit by means of carrying out a nutrition education program to children and investigating its effect.
To achieve...
The purpose of this his study is to examine the influence of nutrition education program on the children's nutrition knowledge and food habit by means of carrying out a nutrition education program to children and investigating its effect.
To achieve purpose of study, following hypotheses was established.
Hypothesis 1, What influence does nutrition education program produce on the children's nutrition knowledge?
Hypothesis 2, What influence does nutrition education program produce on the building of children's food habit?
2-1. What influence does nutrition education program produce on the children's unbalanced diet?
2-2. What influence does nutrition education program produce on the children's table manners?
As a methodology, the research was conducted to 60 children in 5 ages of S kindergarten located in the Nowon-gu of Seoul. Group of objects was divided into the experimental group(30 children) and comparative group(30 children) based on the results of pre-test. Then nutrition education program was applied only to the experimental group in 15 times during 3 weeks from April 22 to May 10 in 2002. Besides, its program was developed based on thematic integrated learning methods such as conversation activity, art activity, music activity, cooking activity, science activity and language activity. Specifically, test paper for nutrition knowledge which Chae, In Sook developed in 1993 among measurement methods was used to identify change of nutrition knowledge. And at same time, test paper for food habit referred a written inquiry which was used in Kim, Doo Rye's literature.
The SPSS Package Program was used to handle data, and the frequency, percentage and mean were computed as data analysis. For identifying difference between the experimental group and comparative group, t-test was used.
Conclusively, the results of study were concluded like followings;
First, as a result of analysis on the nutrition knowledge, there was significant difference of nutrition knowledge between experimental group who was applied nutrition education program and comparative group who was not. A experimental group showed more high degree of nutrition knowledge than a comparative group did. Therefore, it can be considered that nutrition education program may help children improve nutrition knowledge.
Second, as a results of analysis on the food habit, there was no significant difference of the statistic mean about food habit between experimental group who was applied nutrition education program and comparative group who was not. This fact represents that nutrition education during only 3 weeks can not improve children's food habit such as unbalanced diet and table manners.
As seeing results stated above, it can be said that nutrition education program applied in this study, produces positive influence on the children's nutrition knowledge. On the contrary, its program can not produces positive influence on the children's food habit such as unbalanced diet and table manners.