• Nutritional Sciences
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.146-154
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• 2002

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of household type on the health- and food-related behavior of the elderly. The survey was conducted on 304 free-living elderly persons in Chun-Chon city in 1999. The subjects were divided into three groups by their household types : living alone (n=35), living with their spouses (n=59), and living with their extended family (n=191). The results were obtained by personal interviews using questionnaires. Compared to the group living with their spouses and/or extended families, the elderly living alone were : less satisfied with the amount of monthly pocket money available; less involved in social activities; taking less vitamin supplements; doing less physical exercise; more frequently skipping meals and dining out; less frequently consuming meats, vegetables, fruits and seaweed; and having the highest rate of depression. The elderly living with their spouses tended to have the best physical functions and the greatest ability to carry out basic daily activities. The elderly living with their extended families had a higher incidence of diseases compared to the other groups. The preferred snacks were cookies for the elderly living alone, and fruits for the other two groups. In summary, it has been shown that household type should be taken into consideration for formulating adequate future strategies for effective health and nutrition programs.

• 지역사회간호학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.310-321
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• 2018

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify the effects of the elderly's health statuses, health behavior, and social relations on their health-related quality of life (HRQoL) according to their family types. Methods: The subjects of this study were 1000 elderly persons (298 living alone, 420 living with their spouses, and 282 living with their family)living in C city in Gangwon Province. Data were collected through structured questionnaires from July 20 to September 30, 2015. The SPSS/WIN program was used for data analysis. Results: The HRQoL of the elderly living alone was much lower than the other groups. The most influential factors on the HRQoL include self-rated health and depressive symptoms in all three groups. Social activities and skipping meals were associated with the HRQoL of the elderly living alone and living with their spouses, while marital status, number of chronic disease, and instrumental activities of daily living were associated with the HRQoL of the elderly living with their family. Conclusion: Nurses should take into account family types when designing interventions for improving the HRQoL of the elderly.

• 가정의학회지
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• 제39권6호
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• pp.340-346
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• 2018

Background: Several studies have revealed the frequency of family mealtimes to be inversely associated with depressive symptoms in adolescents. However, there have been few studies in older populations. This cross-sectional study investigated the association between family mealtime frequency and depressive symptoms in elderly Koreans. Methods: This study analyzed 4,959 elderly men and women (aged 65 years or older) who participated in the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Self-administered questionnaires were used to assess depressive status, family mealtime frequency, and covariates. Multiple logistic regression analysis was performed to evaluate the association using the eating alone group as a reference. Results: After adjusting for all covariates, participants who had family meals 3 times a day had fewer depressive symptoms than the eating alone group; adjusted odds ratios (ORs) (95% confidence intervals [CIs]) were 0.72 (0.58-0.89) for point depressiveness/anxiety and 0.73 (0.56-0.94) for depressiveness lasting for at least 2 weeks. In suicidal ideation, the OR (95% CI) of eating with family twice a day was significant after full adjusting for covariates at 0.67 (0.50-0.88). Conclusion: Family mealtimes were closely associated with depressive symptoms in elderly Koreans, which suggests that maintaining intrafamilial bonding is important for mental health in an older population.

• 대한지역사회영양학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.12-26
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• 2022

Objectives: This paper aimed to provide an in-depth analysis of the factors influencing the dietary habits of male and female workers at a facility in Gwangju and their awareness of the same. Methods: A total of 32 workers were divided into eight groups based on work type, gender, and age, and focus group interviews (FGIs) were conducted. The FGIs included cognitive, behavioral, and environmental questionnaires based on dietary habits and the social cognitive theory. The interviews were analyzed by subject and sub-subject using audio recordings and transcriptions. Results: Male workers in the concerned company favored meat while female workers preferred vegetables, yet by and large, the preferences were irregular. Male workers living alone frequently ate ready meals and female workers often skipped meals. An analysis of the factors influencing the study subjects' dietary habits from the cognitive, behavioral, and environmental perspectives showed that the main factors negatively affecting their dietary habits were shiftwork, living alone, and drinking. Workers were unaware of these factors and their poor eating habits. Instead, male workers complained of poor cooking skills, while female workers complained of loneliness. Workers thus appeared to need the support of nutrition education and a counseling assistant to cope with this situation. Conclusions: The study identified the fact that the absence of nutrition education left the workers unaware of their poor eating habits. The workers would need counseling and support to help them build healthy dietary habits. It would also be necessary to focus on raising the workers' cognitive awareness of dietary habits and enhancing their behavioral ability to cope with bad eating habits through nutrition education that reflects the reality of their situation.

• 대한지역사회영양학회지
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.615-628
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• 2004

This study is designed to examine influences of living arrangements on psycho-social factors, health and nutritional status, dietary adequacy and meal service utility patterns of the elderly. Nutritional status was evaluated by Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA). Three hundred and nine elderly (110 men and 199 women) who participated in meal service in the Chung-buk province were investigated. Proportion of the elderly living alone, couples only, living with spouse and family, living with family without spouse; and living with other than family were 30.7%, 25.9%, 14.2%, 24.3% and 4.9% respectively. The mean age of the elderly was 74.1 years and the elderly who are living couples only and living with spouse and family were younger than those with other living status. Living arrangements seem to be related to psycho-social factors, health and nutritional status, and dietary quality. Those who live alone and live with other than family were mostly women and they have lower socio-economic status, psycho-social, health and nutritional status and dietary patterns compared with those of the elderly who are living with spouse or family. It was found that the elderly who live a couple only and live with spouse and family had better emotional, health and nutritional index than those of the elderly who live with family without spouse, especially in case of females. Most of elderly perceived that participation of meal service programs had a positive effect on their daily life and satisfied with meals. The elderly living alone and living with other than family were more frequently using meal service but had a negative attitude about the charged meal service for better quality than the elderly with other living status. The most important reason for all the elderly to participate in meal service was to meet their friends and then to get other services. Particularly those who are living alone and living with other than family showed lack of moivation to prepare and set the meal, and for them the economic reason is also important. They also replied that the poor health and lack of other help were the most difficult problems for them to prepare meals. It would be effective to provide nutritional services that meet specific needs of the elderly according to their characteristics and living environment.

• Journal of Korean Biological Nursing Science
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.100-109
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• 2021

Purpose: This study aimed to compare the differences in the prevalence of metabolic syndrome between menopausal women and women of childbearing age and to determine the risk of metabolic syndrome among women in each group depending on whether they eat alone. Methods: Data of 1,813 women from the seventh Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2016) were used. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS 20.0, and complex sample frequency analysis, descriptive statistics, complex sample cross analysis, complex sample general linear regression, and complex sample logistic regression analysis were performed. Results: According to the results of the study, there was no difference in the prevalence and risk of metabolic syndrome according to the presence of companions during meals between women of childbearing age and post-menopausal women, but there was a difference in health behavior. In other words, women of childbearing age who ate alone had a lot of experience of drinking, and menopausal women who ate alone did not tend to make any efforts to control their weight and did not perform aerobic exercise. In particular, the negative health behavior of menopausal women who ate alone increased the risk of prevalence of metabolic syndrome. Conclusion: The findings indicate that, for women who eat alone, interventions to prevent metabolic syndrome should be differentiated before and after menopause. Therefore, it is suggested to offer an educational program to prevent metabolic syndrome in women of childbearing age as well as provide regular assessments to diagnose metabolic syndrome and health behavior improvement programs for menopausal women.

• 동아시아식생활학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.339-349
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to investigate dietary behavior relative to personality type in young adults, and to offer basic data to apply during nutrition education and counseling. A total of 166 university students performed the MBTI (Mayers-Briggs Type Indicator) test along with questionnaire interviews, and 3 day 24-hr dietary recalls. MBTI personality preferences are presented and separated by 4 types of indices: Extraversion (E) and Introversion (I), Sensing (S) and Intuition (N), Thinking (T) and Feeling (F), and Judgement (J) and Perception (P). More subjects in the I type than the E type had lunch everyday or ate out more than once a week. Compared to the P type, the J type ate a higher proportion of meals with family, and seldom drank alcohol, but a lower proportion had a preference for salty taste. Compared to the N type, the S type had a higher proportion of subjects who consumed large quantities at regular meals as well as when under high amounts of stress. Also, the S type subjects had significantly higher lipid intakes than the N type subjects. Compared to the F type, a higher proportion of the T type subjects ate meals alone but a lower proportion had a dislike for bitter tasting foods. There were no significant differences in total food or energy intakes relative to the different personality types. In conclusion, individual personality type may influence dietary behavior, but additional studies are needed that contain individuals of various ages and include long term dietary surveys.

• 대한지역사회영양학회지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.459-467
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• 2014

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to suggest the strategies for improvement of home-delivered meal services for the elderly, to identify reasons for recipients to get started with the services and to evaluate the attitude, acceptability and adaptation of recipients to the services from the perspective of life context. Methods: The data was collected through face-to-face in-depth interviews with eighteen low-income elderly recipients of home-delivered meals and analyzed using a qualitative research method. Results: The results were deduced as four themes which comprised of long-term vulnerable socioeconomic contexts resulted in entry to the services, conflicting acceptability to the services, passive adaptation to taking the services, and positive practices to cope with supplement free meals or other services. The service participation was initiated because of a combination of prolonged, vulnerable socioeconomic contexts, including poverty and unexpected life events such as diseases, disability, living alone, aging and unemployment. With regard to taking the services, conflicting acceptability was observed: positive aspects including saving living cost and good quality of meals, and negative aspects including lack of a tailored service and feeling of stigma. Although the recipients needed an individualized service, they did not express their needs and demands for the services and they accepted the unavailability as an accustomed, prolonged vulnerable socioeconomic context. With regard to lack of tailored services, either self-solution such as modification of eating patterns or community-based network and services were used. Conclusions: We suggest that a system to concretely identify recipients' attitude, acceptability and adaptation for home-delivered meal services should be developed in the establishment of a tailored nutrition support system for the low-income elderly.

• 동아시아식생활학회지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.626-633
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• 2007

This study was conducted to determine the eating habits of obese elementary school students residing in Iksan city, in June 2006 using 1167 participants(obese: 233, normal weight: 934). The results are summarized as follows. The average age was 12 years-old in both the obese and normal weight groups. The average BMI, ideal body weight and obesity index in the obese and normal weight groups were $24.8kg/m^2$, 39.8 kg, and 32.5% and $18.2kg/m^2$, 37.7 kg and -1.4%, respectively. Regarding the number of subject who acknowledged their physical build, the obese group was highest(88.9%) in stating obese or extremely obese, while the normal group was highest(71.5%) in stating they were normal weight. For the frequency of eating breakfast, the obese group the results were: "eating it everyday"(69.1%) and $"3{\sim}4\;times/week"$ (13.7%), while in the normal weight group, the highest response was "eating it everyday"(75%) and the lowest response was "never eat it"(4.1%). In terms of having breakfast with someone, there were slight differences for eating alone between the obese group(17.4%) and normal group(12.4%) and also between the obese group(19.6%) and normal group (39.6%) for eating with parents. There were considerable gaps in the association of eating habits with weight such as having irregular meals in the obese group(52.4%) and having regular meals in the normal group(61.1%). The frequency of having snacks was different by the rate of obesity, where 65.9% of the obese group, and 57.8% of the normal group had snacks more than once. There were significant differences in the practice of controlling intake with the obese group at 77.3% and the normal group at 36.3%. There were high numbers regarding eating more than average in stressful times for both the obese group(10.3%) and normal group(7.7%). The results of this study show the prevalence of obesity in Iksan, and proper nutrition education is currently needed. Moreover, the greater the level of obesity, the higher the frequency of skipping breakfast, eating alone, and eating irregular meals, and the more experience in attempting to control weight. To resolve the problems triggered by inappropriate food habits, proper food and eating methods to control weight should be included in nutrition education programs for elementary students.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제40권9호
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• pp.1244-1255
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• 2011

본 연구는 서울지역 인문계와 실업계 고등학교에 재학 중인 남녀 548명을 대상으로 아침식사, 단독식사 및 가족식사에 대한 실태와 영양지식을 비교 조사하였으며 그 결과는 다음과 같다. 조사대상자의 어머니 교육정도는 대부분 고졸과 대졸이었고(p<0.001), 실업계 학생이 인문계 학생보다 어머니의 직장이 있는 경우가 많았다(p<0.01). 가족형태는 부모님과 형제와 함께 살고 있는 학생이 인문계 75.4%, 실업계 73.9%로 조사되었다. 아침식사 횟수의 조사에서 아침식사를 '거의 매일 먹는다'로 응답한 경우 인문계 67.6%, 실업계 45.3%, '먹지 않음'으로 응답한 경우는 인문계 7.0%, 실업계 15.6%로 나타났고(p<0.001), 인문계 학생이 실업계 학생보다 아침식사의 횟수가 많음을 알 수 있었다. 단독식사를 하는 이유로 '내가 바빠서'라고 응답한 경우가 44.0%로 가장 많았고(p<0.001), 단독식사의 주식의 형태로 '밥과 반찬'으로 식사한다는 조사가 53.1%로 나타났다(p<0.05). 단독식사할 때 식사시간의 규칙성에서 '불규칙하다'는 응답(34.9%)에서 실업계 학생이 인문계 학생보다 높게 나타났다(p<0.001). 식사속도는 대체로 빠른 편이었고, 단독식사 할 때 좋지 않은 식습관 중에 가장 문제가 되는 것으로 '불규칙한 식사시간', '편식' 및 '인스턴트식품 섭취'의 순으로 조사되었다(p<0.01). 가족식사의 인식 조사에서 '함께 사는 가족이 모두 모여 식사하는 것이 가족식사'라고 생각한다는 응답(70.6%)이 가장 많았고(p<0.05), 가족식사의 유무는 인문계 학생이 실업계 학생보다 11.8% 더 많이 가족식사를 갖고 있다고 생각하였다(p<0.01). 가족식사의 횟수를 '일주일에 1~2회 한다'는 응답이 173명(31.6%), 가족식사의 좋은 점으로 '가족 분위기가 좋아질 수 있다'는 응답(35.4%)이 가장 많았다(p<0.05). 가족식사를 하는 날로 '주말 또는 공휴일'이 50% 이상으로 우리나라 고등학생들은 평일에는 학교와 학원수업으로 바빠서 상대적으로 온 가족이 시간적 여유가 있는 주말 또는 공휴일에 가족과 함께 식사를 하게 되는 경우가 많음을 보여주었다. 가족식사의 태도, 환경 및 참여도에 대한 동의 정도를 측정한 결과, 가족식사의 태도의 평가에서는 대체적으로 실업계에 비해 인문계가 모두 동의하는 정도가 높게 나타났으며, 가족식사 횟수에 따른 가족식사의 태도, 환경 및 참여도에 대한 동의 정도를 측정한 결과, 가족식사의 태도에 대한 동의 정도는 모든 평가에서 가족식사의 횟수가 많은 집단에서 높은 것으로 조사되었다. 영양지식에 대해 분석한 결과, 열량에 대한 항목에서 가장 높은 점수를 보인 항목은 '체중을 줄이기 위해서는 식사 조절보다 운동이 효과적이다'(인문계 0.65, 실업계 0.61)이었고, 영양소에 관련하여 가장 높은 점수를 보인 항목은 '다양한 영양소를 가진 식사가 좋은 식사이다'(인문계 0.85, 실업계 0.80)이었다. 영양소의 급원식품 및 기타 항목에서 '등푸른 생선은 고도의 불포화지방산이 풍부한 좋은 지방공급원이다'의 항목에서 가장 낮은 점수를 보였다(인문계 0.51, 실업계 0.47). 영양지식 점수 '상', '중' 및 '하'에 따른 가족식사의 태도, 환경 및 참여도에 대한 동의 정도는 영양지식 점수 '상'인 집단에서 가족식사의 동의 정도가 높은 것으로 조사되었다. 이상의 결과에서 대부분의 청소년들은 아침식사를 하는 것으로 조사되었으며, 인문계 학생이 실업계 학생보다 아침식사의 횟수가 많음을 알 수 있었다. 인문계 학생들은 학습 및 학원시간 등으로 본인 바쁜 이유로, 실업계 학생들은 불규칙한 생활습관에 따른 식사시간의 불규칙으로 인해서 단독식사를 하고 있었다. 단독식사 시 좋지 않은 식습관으로 인문계 학생들은 방과 후 자율학습 및 학원수강 등으로 집 밖에서 식사를 많이 하게 되므로 패스트푸드나 인스턴트식품을 자주 먹는다는 것으로 조사되었다. 그리고 인문계 학생들이 실업계 학생들보다 가족식사에 대한 동의 정도가 높게 나타났으며, 대부분 가족식사의 횟수가 많은 집단과 영양지식 점수가 '상'인 집단에서 가족식사에 대한 동의 정도는 높았다. 따라서 인문계와 실업계 청소년들 모두에게 매일 반복되는 식사의 중요성과 온 가족이 모여서 하는 가족식사가 개별적으로 하는 단독식사보다 식사환경에 긍정적인 영향을 준다는 것을 인식시킬 필요가 있으며 지속적인 영양교육을 통해 식생활 개선 노력이 요구된다.