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Comparative study of Satisfaction level on Hospital meal size and Actual intake rate between Elderly and Middle aged patients  

Son, Ju-Hyoun (Dept of food and nutrition, Inha University)
Chyun, Jong-Hee (Dept of food and nutrition, Inha University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture / v.17, no.5, 2002 , pp. 619-628 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of the study was to compare the satisfaction level on hospital meal size and actual intake rate of hospital foods between elderly and middle aged patients. Sixty one middle aged and one hundered thirty two elderly patients were surveyed on the foods served in the hospital-rice, soup, meat/fish, vegetable, kimchi and daily products. Compared to the middle aged patients, the more elderly thought the serving size of rice was too big(p<0.05), and those of soup, meat/fish and kimchi tended to be too big. There was no difference in the satisfaction level on the serving size of vegetable dish between two age groups. In actual intake rates of hospital meal there were no significant differences between the elderly and middle aged patients. However, the elderly male ate significantly(p<0.05) less amount of rice than the middle aged male and the elderly female ate significantly(p<0.01) less amount of meat/fish then the middle aged female. Satisfaction levels and actual intake rates were significantly correlated in all food items.
Keywords
elderly patients; hospital meal size; actual meal intake rates;
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