This study was conducted to investigate the capability and education beliefs of adolescent parents on convergence utilizing the dietary area (CUDA). Data were collected from 259 adolescent parents at 9 middle and high schools in Seoul, Gyeonggi region...
This study was conducted to investigate the capability and education beliefs of adolescent parents on convergence utilizing the dietary area (CUDA). Data were collected from 259 adolescent parents at 9 middle and high schools in Seoul, Gyeonggi regions, and Gyeongsang provinces using a selfadministered 5-Likert questionnaire from December 2022 to January 2023. Although the level of CUDA education was low compared to the level of diet and convergence education at home, the proportion of adolescent parents who recognized CUDA education as effective in their children's convergence education was high. The average score for each factor were: CUDA competency (3.17±0.62/5.00), CUDA education perception (2.85±0.65), CUDA education disability (2.87±0.64), and CUDA education efficacy (3.08±0.54). Parents who did a lot of dietary and convergence education at home had significantly higher average scores for the factors of CUDA attitude and knowledge, CUDA practice, CUDA education necessity, CUDA training run, CUDA education potential confidence, and CUDA education current capability confidence than parents who did less education (p<0.05). All of the detailed factors of parents' perception of CUDA education, CUDA competency, and CUDA education efficacy had a significant negative correlation with the detailed factors of CUDA educational obstacles (p<0.05). CUDA education for parents can increase the ease and efficiency of children's convergence competency development.
Therefore, parents education should be provided to increase awareness of CUDA activities and cultivate CUDA educational capabilities. Additionally, CUDA educational materials should be actively developed.