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KMID : 0358119900160010048
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Journal of the Korean Public Health Association
1990 Volume.16 No. 1 p.48 ~ p.60
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A STUDY OF ECOLOGY OF FOOD AND NUTRITION AMONG CANDIDATES OF HIGH SCHOOL THIRD GRADERS FOR A UNIVERSITY
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李敬信/Lee, Kyong Shin
金姝慧/牟壽美/Kim, Ju-Hye/Mo, Sumi
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Abstract
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An ecological survey of food and nutrition was conducted among 332 examinees who passed an entrance examination of colleges of home economics, education, social science, liberal arts, and natural science, Seoul National University, between February 7 and 8, 1990. The results were summarized as follows
In regard to employment state of mothers of those successful candidates, most mothers, and 84. 5% stayed at home to take care of family without any employment of outside of the home.
Physical figures of the subjects were classified into five categories by determination of modified Broca´s physical indices: 63.9% showed normal; 27.0% under weight; 4.6% mild obese; 1.6% extremely under weight; 2.9% obese.
Daily sleeping hours of subjects were 6 hours and 27 minutes on an average. The subjects of extremely under weight slept for 6 hours and 4 minutes, whereas obese subjects slept for 6 hour and 48 minutes. Subjects left home for school around 7 a.m. and returned home around 9 p.m. With regard to an extra study after returning home, 64.5% studied at home; 35.5% studied in the nearby reading hall or in the evening school for college candidates.
Female subjects paid attentions for diet, in contrast to male subjects who had physical exercise and tonic medicine for strengthen stamina to promote an efficiency of study. In regard with complaint of headache of subjects, 20.4% had every day; 70.7% had often, others never had. This incidence was especially higher among the subjects of extremely under weight than subjects of any other physical category. For change of body weight, 32.8% of male and 41.5% of female subjects gained, in contrast to 28% of male and 22.7% of female subjects reduced during the third grade of high school.
With regard to frequency of breakfast, 73.1% of subjects had every day; 4.6% skipped entirely every day; 16.7% often skipped; 3% had only milk or juice everyday; 2.5% had only those drinks irregularly. In patterns of breakfast, 89.9% of subjects had cooked rice-type breakfast; 8.1% had bread-type; 1.8% had cooked rice or breads alternatively; 0.4% had porridge-type. 45.3% of subjects complained of a lack of appetite in the morning. A higher percentage of poor appetite was found among male subjects than among female subjects; also among subjects who slept for shorter hours than among subjects who slept longer. A higher percentage of incidence of constipation was found among female than among male subjects; also among subjects of no´ breakfast. About one third of subjects had indigestion. More incidences of constipation and indigestion were found among obese subjects than among others. Frequency and quantity of between meal snack and snack taken in the late evening, were increased during the third grade; in particular, among female and among obese subjects.
72.1% of subjects had home-prepared boxed lunch during lunchtime; 18.4% had during short break between the third and fourth lesson hours; 7.4% had between the second and third lesson hours. For an evening meal, 58.3% of subjects had home-prepared boxed meal at school; 22.9 % had meal at home; 10.4% bought snack at school shop; 8.9% bought meal at the food shop nearby the school .44.9% of subjects had meal again at home in the late evening after returning home from school.
The survey revealed that teaching nutrition to high school students should be emphasized, for a` better health management and promoting an efficiency of study.
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