The purpose of this study is to investigate dietary pattern and health status related to food habit and degree of fatigue of evening college students. A sample of 476 evening college students in Chonbuk area were surveyed by questionnaire examining their food habit, nutrient intakes, degree of fatigue and cornell Medical Index(CMI). In this study, the male and female students were classified into two groups, respectively, the first group is not having jobs and the second is having jobs.
The results were summarized as follows:
1. Evaluation status of food habit score indicated that the subjects were included in Fair and Poor group generally. Food habit score of female was significantly higher than score of male. For female students, food habit score of job group was significantly higher than score of non-job group(p<0.05).
2. Average intakes of calorie and protein were 1869.1 ㎉ and 68.3 g in male and 1612.4 ㎉ and 58.3 g in female. Other nutrients, such as vitamin B₁(1.1 ㎎), vitamin B₂(1.2 ㎎) and ascorbic acid(41.0 ㎎) in male, iron(13.5 ㎎), vitamin B₂(1.1 ㎎) and ascorbic acid(46.5 ㎎) in female were lower than the korean RDA.
3. The means of degree of physical, mental, neurosensory and CMI scores were 3.1, 1.9, 1.5 and 4.7 in male and 4.0, 2.4, 2.4 and 7.1 in female, respectively. For female students, though significancy was found between job group and non-job group in physical, neurosensory fatigue and CMI score(p<0.05, 0.01), but there were not significant differences in these score for male students.
4. There were significant positive correlation between three types of fatigue and CMI, whereas score of food habit was negative correlation for degree of physical, mental fatigue and CMI. The intakes of protein and vitamin B₁ were significantly related to the mental, neurosensory fatigue and CMI.
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