This study was conducted to investigate breakfast related factors and utilize the basic information for the development of university student´s nutrition and health program in order to help healthy dietary life. The interview was done by trained interviewers on 197 students who visited health clinic in Inje university from May 1 to May 31, 1998.
The obtained results were as follows ;
1. The rate of having breakfast was 50.5% in male and 45.5% in female, ad there were significantly higher rate(62.1%) in freshmen than other grade students(p<0.05).
2. The rate of smoking and drinking were 24.9%, 86.6%, respectively. The rate of having breakfast was significantly lower in smoking group and drinking group than other groups(p<0.05).
3. The group that was shown high awareness of the important of having breakfast was higher than other groups in the rate of having breakfast(p<0.05).
4. The author calculated odds ratios for past medical history, smoking, drinking, awareness of the importance of having breakfast by logistic regression. the values were 1.77 for past medical history(p>0.05), 2.09 for smoking(p>0.05), 2.88 for drinking(p<0.05), 3.80 for awareness of the importance of having breakfast(p<0.05).
We suggested that better breakfast eating habits for an adequate daily diet should be emphasized through nutrition and health education program for university students.
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