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KMID : 0665420090240060778
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Korean Journal of Food Culture
2009 Volume.24 No. 6 p.778 ~ p.783
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A Study on the Nutritional Habit, Nutritional Knowledge, Functional Health Status of the Aged People in the Hall for the Aged in Sungnam Area
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Kang Nam-E
Chu Su-Kyung
Yoo Jang-Hak
Yi Seung-Hoon
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to determine the basic materials needed for nutrition and health programs for aged people. In order to set up these programs, the nutritional habit, nutritional knowledge and functional health status (mobility, functional assessment, and falls efficacy) of the aged were measured, and their relationships were determined. Data was collected on 57 aged individuals that participated in the ’Exercise Program for the Aged’ conducted by the National Health Insurance Corporation. These 57 subjects were interviewed and tested by direct measurement prior to conducting the program. The data was analyzed using the SPSS 13.0 Package. According to the results, the nutritional habit ranged from 24-50 out of 50, and the average was 37.2, which was above the middle level. The average nutritional knowledge was of 4.02 out of 5, which was considered reasonably high. Especially, more than half of these subjects were uneducated, but they had a high interest in nutrition. The average mobility was determined to be 9.2 seconds and the falls efficacy was 64.2 out of 100. In addition, subjects answered that they had a fear of falling due to low confidence, which indicates that safety education for the prevention of falls should be provided to aged individuals in the future. The results showed that notable counter-relations between nutritional habit and functional health status existed.
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KEYWORD
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nutritional habit, nutritional knowledge, mobility, functional assessment, falls efficacy
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