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http://dx.doi.org/10.9724/kfcs.2011.27.2.045

Employee Food-hygiene and Nutrition Awareness and Performance at Child Care Centers and Kindergartens Located in Seoul  

Park, Na-Yoon (Department of Food and Nutrition, Kyung Hee University)
Park, Hee-Kyung (Department of Food and Nutrition, Kyung Hee University)
Park, Hee-Jin (Department of Food and Nutrition, Kyung Hee University)
Seo, Min-Kyung (Department of Food and Nutrition, Kyung Hee University)
Im, Hye-Ran (Department of Food and Nutrition, Kyung Hee University)
Lim, Hwan-Hee (Department of Food and Nutrition, Kyung Hee University)
Jung, Jin-Hyen (Department of Food and Nutrition, Kyung Hee University)
Yoon, Ki-Sun (Department of Food and Nutrition, Kyung Hee University)
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Korean journal of food and cookery science / v.27, no.2, 2011 , pp. 45-59 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was conducted to investigate employee food-hygiene and nutrition awareness and performance and to study the current education programs for children at child care centers and kindergartens located in Seoul, Republic of Korea. A self-evaluated type of questionnaire was developed for foodservice employees and teachers using a five-point Likert scale. Employees with an employment history of <1 year and who were <30 years old had the lowest scores for food-hygiene and nutrition awareness and performance. Employees with a cooking license had a higher awareness score regarding cross-contamination than those without a license. Higher nutritional awareness and performance scores were also observed for employees who had more experience as cooks and who had received a nutrition education than those who did not. Approximately 94% and 76.4% of the employees had experience in sanitation and nutrition education, respectively. Most teachers responded that food sanitation-nutrition education for children seemed necessary in a child-care center; however, only 63.9% of the teachers actually taught sanitation-nutrition education to children. The biggest limitation to conduct food sanitation-nutrition education was the "lack of professionalism" of teachers, because only 48.1% of teachers had received a sanitation- utrition education. Thus, a food sanitation-nutrition education program for foodservice employees and teachers must be developed and implemented actively to improve the quality of food service and nutrition education in child care centers and kindergartens.
Keywords
child care center; awareness; performance; food hygiene; nutrition;
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