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KMID : 0123420080130050682
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Korean Journal of Community Nutrition
2008 Volume.13 No. 5 p.682 ~ p.692
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Status of Children’s Breakfast Skipping and Their Mothers’ Needs for Breakfast Service at Child Care Centers
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Lee Ki-Won
Yoon Ji-Hyun
Shim Jae-Eun
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the status of children’s breakfast skipping and their mothers’ needs for
breakfast service at child care centers. A survey was conducted with mothers of children aged 3 to 5 years and
attending child care centers in Gwanak-gu, Seoul. Out of 960 questionnaires distributed to the caregivers at 32 child
care centers, 633 were returned (66% response rate), and 449 were analyzed (47% analysis rate) after excluding data
from the respondents not meeting the selection criteria for this study: mothers of children aged 3 to 5 years. Over 2/3
(69%) of children ate breakfast every weekday (Breakfast Eaters) and almost 1/3 (31%) of children skipped breakfast
one time or more often on weekdays (Breakfast Skippers). The collected data were compared between Breakfast Eaters
and Breakfast Skippers. The average Good Dietary Practice Score of Breakfast Skippers was significantly lower than
that of Breakfast Eaters, implying poorer dietary habits. A higher percentage of mothers of Breakfast Skippers (62%)
responded that breakfast service was ‘necessary’ or ‘very necessary’ at child care centers than those of Breakfast Eaters
(27%). A multiple logistic regression analysis was conducted to determine factors affecting mothers’ needs for breakfast
service at child care centers. The result showed that the children’s ages, mothers’ occupational status, household
monthly income, frequencies of eating breakfast on weekdays and satisfaction level with morning snack provided at
child care centers affected mothers’ needs for breakfast service at child care centers. In particular, mothers who had a
full-time job (OR = 2.06) than housewives, mothers whose children did not eat breakfast at al (OR = 3.54), ate 1~2
times (OR = 5.50) or ate 3~4 times (OR = 3.80) on weekdays than those whose children ate breakfast every weekday
were more likely to have needs for breakfast service at child care centers than housewives. In conclusion, Breakfast
Skippers tended to have poorer dietary habits than Breakfast Eaters and Full-time working mothers had higher needs
for breakfast service at child care centers. This study results suggest that child care centers consider serving breakfast
to children as the number of working mothers increases.
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KEYWORD
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breakfast skipping, child care center, breakfast service, multiple logistic regression
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