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KMID : 0665419930080020103
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Korean Journal of Food Culture
1993 Volume.8 No. 2 p.103 ~ p.116
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Needs Assessment : Nutrition Education & Training Program for Day Care Children
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to assess the nutrition education and training needs as a basis for program planning for day care children.
Nutrition achievement test developed by American National Dairy Council and Iowa state University was modified and used for measuring the level of basic knowledge of food and nutrition for day care children.
The results of this study can be summarized as follows
1. Over 70% of mothers indicated their children had a certain degree of food behavior and feeding problems in terms of unbalanced food habit, irregular meal period.
2. Mean score for the nutrition achievement test for day care children was 9.3.
3. The nutrition achievement test score for children with high socio-economic status was significantly higher than those of children with middle and lower group.
4. Inspection of the difficulty difference indices showed that over the 50% of the children had more items that were easier in the content of physiological facts than in the food handling and social psychological aspects of foods.
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