경남과 전북지역 초등학교 고학년생의 인터넷 및식생활정보 이용실태 = Utilization Status of Internet and Dietary Information ofSchool Children in Gyeongnam and Jeonbuk Areas

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study was caried out to investigate the utilization status of internet and dietary information by gender (boys : 442, girls : 461) in school children (total : 903). The results were sumarized as follows. The most of children used internet regularly (98.1%) (39.0%) and social intercourse (49.5%). The duration of internet use was < 2hours (80.9%). They used internet mainly at home (88.8%), and fa-vorite search engines were Yaho (54.2%) and Daum (31.1%). The searching experience on dietary information was from only 35.6% of subjects mainly for homework (39.6%) and for health (36.9%). The satisfaction degree of sea-(79.5%). Dissatisfactory reasons of internet site for dietary information were pointed out to be bring little interest (28.9), difficult contents (19.2%), and poor information (18.2%). Only fiften % of sub-jects had experience of nutrition counseling using internet, and purpose of counseling was mainly for homework (51.4%) and for health problem (24.3%). The problems for nutritional counseling site were pointed out to be diffi-cult answer content (31.7%), insincere answer (28.6%) and poor answer content (25.4%). They acquire information of nutrition and health management mainly through internet (43.7%). Growth and nutrition (28.3%), improvement in studying ability (13.8%), right weight control (13.3%) and cooking (12.8%) were most frequently asked infor-mation, They had a preference for game (40.5%), animation (29.9%) and quiz (18.1%) as learning method tools. The favorite site color was green (51.3%). The results of this study showed that although the internet use was very high, they used internet to search dietary information very seldom. Therefore, the information donor should find out what is the optimal tool, what kind of dietary information was needed for school children. (Korean J Community Nutrition 8(1) : 15 ~ 25, 2003)