• Title/Summary/Keyword: Family-Linked Cooking Activity

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The Development and Evaluation of a Nutrition Education Program for Preschoolers Focused on Family-linked Cooking Activity (가정연계 요리활동 중심의 유아 영양교육 프로그램 개발과 평가)

  • Han, Young Suk
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.521-530
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate the nutrition education program for preschoolers focusing on family-linked cooking activities. After a pilot study and consultations of experts, a program(composed of twelve lessons) that was emphasized the right season food and cooking activities based on the social cognitive theory was developed. The lessons once-a-month and survey(pre and pro) were conducted to 29 preschoolers. The distribution of children was 72.5 months(mean age). The post-survey after the program was found to have significantly higher effects on nutrition knowledge and diet habits than the comparative group. Through this, the nutrition education program for preschoolers based on family-linked cooking activities developed in this study is effective in improving preschoolers' nutrition knowledge and diet habits, and provides grounds and implications for applying family-linked cooking activities to nutrition education.