• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Community Living Science Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.194-194
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• 2005

• Proceeding of Spring/Autumn Annual Conference of KHA
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.357-361
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is to provide the basic information and to help producers develop more realistic, idealistic and better environment-friendly interior finishing material by identifying and reducing the awareness and preference about it between the producers and consumers. The following conclusions are based on the above results of analysis. There is a lack of awareness of the environment-friendly interior finishing material and it is urgent to develop the awareness. For the developing the awareness, the government and the authorities concerned have to educate the consumers in order that they choose objective information, have to build information network accessible to them and have to share the reliable information. And in order to get the confidence of consumers, it is necessary to make institutional devices. The scientific study which can be approved in many methods and many NGOs' participation are also needed. Especially in order to meet the consumers' demand, there should be proof of the influence of the interior finishing material on the body and diversity of the design and color of the material.

• The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.28-37
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• 2006

This study was carried out to examine the Korean housewives' recognition and consumption type about organic and instant food. The questionnaire were answered by the housewives in Seoul, Kyunggi-do and Chungcheong-do areas. 94.1% of the housewives were aware of the organic food and 71.7% were consuming it. However, majority(95.9%) thought the price was too expensive. The biggest reason why the housewives did not purchase organic food was the high price(43.8%). But 60.6% of the housewives bought organic food because of its safety. The most preferred organic food type of the housewives was vegetable and lettuce was most consumed organic vegetable. Instant food was used by 96.7% of the housewives. 29.9% used instant food once a week, and the number of using instant food from one to seven times a week were 73.8%. Time saving was the biggest reason(51.3%) of using instant food, but 72.4% of the housewives did not buy instant food because of its artificial color, added preservatives, and the low safety level. Housewives liked fish and meat products(37.4%) and awareness of the names of companies made difference in consuming. There were significant correlation between food expenses and purchase of organic food, and between housework and organic food, and between housework and number of uses (p<0.05).

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.9 no.12
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• pp.401-409
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to examine the oral health care and self-rated health status of adults visiting dental clinics in the region of Busan and influential factors for their dental fear from January to May, 2017, in an effort to obtain some information on how to relieve fear. As for dental fear, adults who were in their 30s, who were homemakers and whose monthly income ranged from 4 to 4.99 million won. In regard to fear according to oral health care, dental fear caused by the treatment avoidance factor was stronger among the adults who didn't receive dental checkups and who brushed their teeth in the wrong way. Dental fear that was attributed to the physiological reaction factor and the stimuli-inducing factor was severer among the adults who didn't receive dental checkups and who had no scaling experience. Overall fear was severer among the adults who didn't receive dental checkups and who changed their toothbrushes every four or more months. The factors that affected dental fear were self-rated health status, self-rated oral health status, gender, age, whether to receive dental checkups on a regular basis or not, and oral health education experience. Therefore in order to alleviate dental fear, self-rated health status should be improved, and the kind of system that encourages regular dental checkups and provides oral health education should be prepared.

• 보일러설비
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• no.11 s.142
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• pp.137-144
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• 2005

과거 우리나라의 부엌은 주부의 노동공간으로 여겨져 왔지만 현대에 와서는 주방의 기능적 측면이 충분히 반영되어 적극적인 서비스 공간으로 인식되고 있다. 또 핵가족 시대의 가족유대를 도모할 수 있는 공간으로 변화하고 있다. 한 가족이라 하더라도 각자 다른 생활패턴을 가지고 있어 가족구성원이 서로 얼굴을 대할 수 있는 시간은 식사시간 정도가 전부일 것이다. 따라서 주방은 조리 휴식 대화의 복합기능을 수행할 수 있는 기능성 편의성 안락함을 지닌 공간이 되고 있다. 최근에는 주방이 식사와 더불어 가족들간의 자연스런 대화를 가능하게 하는 생활중심공간이라고 여겨지고 있으며, 아울러 주방을 하나의 '문화공간'으로 간주하기도 하여 주택의 내부와 조화를 이루는 주방인테리어의 필요성이 대두되고 있다.

• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.15-24
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• 2003

The purpose of this study was to investigate the family care-givers' perceptions of welfare facility for the elderly people with dementia, to analyze the related variables, and to provide the suggestions from the perspectives of the well-being of family care-givers. The survey was done using questionnaires in 1999, and the subjects were 198 primary care-givers for senile dementia patients. Frequency distribution, mean, t-test, and one way ANOVA were used to analyze the data. The major findings of this study were as follows: The family care-givers' perceptions of the welfare facility for elderly people with dementia was relatively low. The variables associated were sex, education level, occupation and relationship with the demented elderly. The conclusion suggested from this study was that the social welfare facilities and services were necessary for both the demented elderly people themselves and their family care-givers.

• Korean journal of food and cookery science
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.148-158
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• 1998

This study was to investigate the knowledge of Korean festival foods and the acculturation of American main traditional occasions among Korean American housewives residing in the New York and New Jersey area. Out of 400 questionnaires, the 271 respondents were taken. Of the respondents, 77.1% demonstrated the interest in Korean festival foods. The most important Korean festivals were Chusuk (52.0%), Sulnal(46.9%) and Daeborum (1.1%). In order to make the Korean festival foods to be international foods, the most vital factor was taste and flavor (39.5%), cooking method (34.7%), preservation (10.3%), sanitation (8.1%) and nutrition (7.4%). American Thanksgiving Day was the most important occasion among the Korean American housewives. The factors that keep the American traditional occasions were related to whether the respondents had an occupation or the length of stay in the U.S.A. But in case of Korean festival foods, the factors cannot be applied. On the contrary, they do still keep the tradition and the interest of Korean festival foods in U.S.A. As a result of that, the Korean festival foods in the U.S.A. are systemized for the preservation and popularization for the coming Korean generation.

• Food Science and Preservation
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.676-680
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• 2007

This study was conduced to get consumers to use the organic food soundly and to provide useful information to researchers of organic food by investigating the consumers' recognition of organic food. The subjects of this study were the 364 housewives in Seoul area, over the age of 20. The result of this study showed that the respondents' awareness of organic food was average 3.40. And respondents recognized that organic food is healthy(4.05), expensive(3.92), had no chemical fertilizer(3.83), and clean(3.79), in order. The study also showed that only 58.8% of the respondents said that they trust organic food and the major reasons for distrust in organic foods are: it's too expensive(3.90), is no different than non-organic food(3.74), and had unfavorable reports in the media(3.36).

• Proceedings of the KSCN Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.1074-1075
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• 2003

WTO 출범 이후 우리나라 국민의 식생활 중 수입식품이 차지하는 비중이 급속히 늘어나면서 수입식품 자체의 위해성과 수입농산물에 관한 지식이나 정보가 소비자들에게 부족하여 올바른 구입과 소비가 어렵게 되어 피해를 당하는 경우도 발생하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 청주지역 주부들을 대상으로 수입식품 이용과 인식도 및 수입식품 분별능력의 조사를 통하여, 교육의 필요성여부를 검토하였다. 조사 대상자는 청주시에 거주하는 주부 183명이었고, 조사기간은 2003년 3월 1일부터 3월 15일까지였다. 조사내용은 조사대상자의 일반사항, 식품구입시 태도, 수입식품 구입 경험, 수입식품에 대한 인식도, 수입식품과 국산식품의 분별력 테스트로 구성되었으며, 인식도는 5점 척도에 의해 조사되었다. 사용된 통계처리 방법은 SAS program을 사용하여 빈도, 백분율, 평균, 표준편차를 구하였고, Chi-square 또는 ANOVA로 검정하였다. 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 국내산과 수입산 표시의 확인여부는 응답자의 92.3%가 확인한다고 응답하였고, 선호도를 조사한 결과 99.5%가 국내산을 선호하는 것으로 나타났다. 선호하는 주된 이유로는 ‘수입산은 유해물질이 많으므로’라는 응답이 46.3%로 가장 많이 나타났고, 수입식품 구입경험의 유무로는 92.3%가 경험이 있다고 응답하였으며, 구입동기에 대해 ‘수입산이 시중에 많아 쉽게 구입할 수 있기 때문에’라는 응답이 61.6%로 가장 많았다. 또한 수입식품을 국산식품으로 혼동하여 구입한 경험으로는 응답자의 76%가 ‘있다’고 응답하였으며 혼동한 이유로는 ‘수입식품과 국산식품의 구분이 명확하지 않아서’ 49.6%, ‘수입산과 국내산의 표시가 명확하지 않아서’ 41%를 차지했다. 국내산과 수입산 표시에 대한 신뢰도는 89.7%가 대체로 신뢰하지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 신뢰하지 않는 이유로는 ‘허위표시에 대한 보도를 많이 접해서’가 56.l%로 가장 많은 비율을 차지했다. 수입식품의 인식도를 품질, 가격, 포장 용기, 맛, 조리편리성, 안전성, 건강에 미치는 영향의 7가지 측면에서 살펴보았는데, 수입식품의 품질과 맛에서 국내산과 비슷하거나 나쁘다고 인지하였고, 가격은 수입식품이 싸다고 인지하고 있었으며 연령과 유의성을 보였다(p <0.01). 포장 용기와 조리편리성에 대해서는 국내산과 비슷하거나 좋다고 인지하고 있었으며, 조리편리성은 학력과 유의성이 높게 나타났다(p < 0.01). 안전성과 건강에 미치는 영향에 대해서는 나쁘다고 인지하고 있었다. 수입식품과 국산식품의 분별정도는 66.1%가 구별하는 능력이 언다고 응답하였다. 분별정보를 얻는 경로로는 ‘TV 및 라디오 프로그램’이 61.7%로 가장 많았다. 수입식품에 관한 교육을 받을 의향에 있어서 61.5%가 ‘예’라고 응답하였고, 필요한 교육에 대해 ‘국산식품과 수입식품의 분별법에 관한 내용’이 75.4%로 가장 많았다. 수입식품 분별력 테스트에 있어서는 40점 만점에 평균이 13.6 $\pm$ 7.4점으로 낮았고, 분별력이 가장 좋은 품목은 고사리(53.6%), 분별력이 가장 낮은 품목은 고춧가루(40.4%)로 나타났다. 분별정도에 있어서 ‘매우 잘 구별한다’고 응답한 사람일수록 분별력 점수가 높게 나타나 주부들이 자신의 분별능력에 대해 매우 잘 인지하고 있다는 것을 알 수 있었다(p<0.001). 이상의 결과를 통하여 대부분의 응답자가 수입산에 대해 부정적인 태도를 보이고 있으나 대부분 구입경험이 있고, 분별력 점수도 낮은 편이었다. 따라서 국내 소비자들의 피해를 줄이기 위하여는 수입식품과 국내식품의 특징 및 분별법에 대한 대중매체를 통한 홍보와 이에 대한 교육의 기회가 확대되어져야 하겠다.

• Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.180-184
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• 2010

This study surveyed the change of housewives' purchase behaviors by food safety incidents; the outbreak of 2008 Melamine incident in Korea as for example. 565 housewives in Gunsan were interviewed in March 2009. 52.3% of respondents were regarded as unsatisfactory for food safety management in Korea. Despite the result of scientific assessment for melamine, 74.6% of respondents were yet regarded as health-threatening substance. By the point of before, during and after Melamine-related food safety incident, we were surveyed the level of purchase for melamine-related food items as five scales, the results were $2.47{\pm}0.97$, $1.80{\pm}0.92$ and $1.62{\pm}0.92$, respectively (p < 0.001). After the incident happened, the purchase level was even more reduced. This study also found that there were significance difference (p < 0.05) among the respondents' knowledge for melamine toxicity and food safety management in Korea concerning housewives' purchase behaviors, i.e. the more accurately for melamine toxicity and higher satisfactory of consciousness of food safety, there were less change of purchase behaviors. In conclusion, the consciousness of food safety and accurate knowledge of hazards were significantly affected for the change of housewives' purchase behaviors by food safety incidents. Therefore, it can be suggested that the need for more scientific risk communication strategies with consumer.