KMID : 0665220170300030539
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Korean Journal of Food and Nutrition 2017 Volume.30 No. 3 p.539 ~ p.551
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A Study on the Current Status and Needs of Nutrition Education on Children¡¯s Sugar Intake Reduction among the Center for Children¡¯s Foodservice Management and Child Care Facilities
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Kim Mi-Hyun
Kim Nam-Hee Yeon Jee-Young
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Abstract
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This study investigated the current status and needs for nutrition education to help reduce children¡¯s sugars intake at the Center for Children¡¯s Foodservice Management (CCFM, n=115), and Child Care Facilities (CCF, n=646) through an online survey conducted from October 5th to 30th 2015. A total of 14.8% of CCFM respondents and 31.9% of CCF respondents provided nutrition education on sugars intake to young children as a main topic (p<0.001). A higher percentage (CCFM 47.8%: CCF 42.4%) delivered nutrition education on sugars intake to young children as a sub-component (p<0.001). Over 90% of the CCFM and CCF participants agreed on the necessity of providing nutrition education on sugars intake to children. The most common reasons given for delivering nutrition education on children¡¯s sugar intake were ¡°there are many more urgent nutrition education topics¡± for CCFM, and ¡°insufficient nutrition education information and materials¡± for CCF. The percentage of nutrition education on children¡¯s sugar intake provided to the children¡¯s parents was low showing about 20% in the both groups. The percentage of CCFM participants providing nutrition, education on children¡¯s sugar intake to the teachers in CCF was also low, showing about 14.8%; however, 68.0% of the CCF participants wanted to received teacher's education on guiding children¡¯s sugar intake. Regarding ideas about a nutrition education program on children¡¯s sugar intake for young children, most respondents in both groups answered ¡°sugar intake and dental cavities or obesity¡± for appropriate education contents, ¡°story telling or puppet show¡± for appropriate education methods, and ¡°dietitian from CCFM and class teacher together¡± for appropriate educator. For appropriate education time, there was a significantl difference between the CCFM responses (average 2.7 times) and the CCF responses (average 4 times). Based on the above results, we found that implementing nutrition education on children's sugar intake at the CCFM and CCF, was low; however, awareness of the need for nutrition education on children¡¯s sugar intake and the program development and supply was very high. Also, the opinions of CCFM and CCF participants about a nutrition education program on children¡¯s sugar intake for young children can provide foundation data to develop and implement the CCFM-based nutrition education program.
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KEYWORD
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status and needs of nutrition education, children's sugars intake reduction, Center for Children¡¯s Foodservice Management (CCFM), child care facilities
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