• 한국학교보건학회지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.74-90
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• 1992

농촌지역 국민학교 급식아동의 성장발달과 식생활 습관을 알아보기 위하여 경상북도 농촌지역 국민학교 중 급식 학교 6학년 아동 636명(남자 312 명, 여자 324명)과, 이들 학교 인근의 비급식학교 6학년 아동 628명(남자 306명, 여자 322명)을 대상으로 학생건강기록부에 기재된 신장, 체중 측정치를 1학년에서 6학년까지 6년간의 연속적인 자료를 조사하고, 이들의 전반적인 식생활 습관을 1992년 2월 1일부터 2월 15일까지 설문지로 조사하여 분석한 결과는 다음과 같다. 남자의 신장은 6년간 급식군이 27.8cm, 비급식군 27.1cm자랐고, 여자신장은 각각 29.9cm, 28.4cm가 자라서 급식아동이 약간 더 성장하였다. 남자체중은 급식군 15.7kg, 비급식군 14.8kg이 증가한 반면, 여자는 16.9kg 및 17.2kg이 성장해 남자는 급식아동이, 여자는 비급식아동이 더 성장했다. 1학년때는 percentile별 신장 체중의 분포가 표준정규분포 곡선형태에 가까우면서 급식군과 비급식군이 서로 비슷하였으나 6학년때는 50percentile선을 중심으로 75percentile이상에 급식아동의 분포가 더 많았다. 6학년때 체력은 남자의 경우 급식아동이 멀리뛰기, 던지기, 턱걸이, 윗몸일으키기에서 비급식아동보다 우세하였으며, 여자는 멀리뛰기 한 종목에서만 유의한 차이를 보였고 (P<0.05), 체력급수에서도 우수한 특급의 분포가 급식군에서 더 많았다. 아침식사를 매일 먹는 아동이 급식군 67.6%, 비급식군 57.8%였고, 아침을 안먹는 이유로 급식군은 습관이 돼서 (50.7%), 비급식군은 밥맛이 없어서 (58.9%)라고 답하였으며, 급식아동에서 대체적으로 싱겁게 먹는 경향이 많았다. 간식빈도는 무 군 모두 70% 정도의 아동이 하루에 1회이상 간식을 하고 있었으며, 간식장소는 급식군은 집에서 (45.2%), 비급식군은 귀가 도중 가게나 길거리에 (48.4%)한다고 답하였다. 가정에서 식사할 때 음식을 골고루 먹는 아동이 급식군에서 더 많았고 식사시 조용히 자리에 앉아서 음식을 삼킨후 이야기하며 먹는 아동이 급식군에서 더 많았는 반면, T.V를 보면서 먹는 아동은 비급식군보다 적었다. 식사전에 항상 손을 씻는 아동이 급식군은 84.0%, 비급식군 63.6%로 급식군에서 유의하게 높았고, 식사후 이닦기를 항상 하는 아동은 급식군 여자에서 많아 유의한 관련성을 보였다. 영양교육 실태에 있어서도 영양교육을 '받았다'라고 답한 아동이 급식군 78.0%, 비급식군 57.5%였다. 이상의 결과로 볼때 급식아동이 비급식아동 보다 성장발육 속도가 더 빨랐고, 체력도 더 좋다고 할 수 있으며, 식습관 및 위생습관도 양호한 것으로 나타나 국민학교 특히 농촌지역부터 학교급식을 빠른 시일내에 확대 실시토록 해야 할것이며, 교육급식으로서의 역할을 다할 수 있도록 영양 및 식생활개선교육도 강화해야 할 것이다.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.83-101
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• 1981

Under the full consideration of the growing need and importance of population education in the field of home economics in Korea, the study was carried out to verify and assess the following facts on the current issues of population education of home economists who are presently engaging in teaching professions as the teachers of middle and high school and professors of college and universities by setting its primary objectives of the study as followings; 1) to assess the degree of general knowledge and attitudes of home economists toward population education in the field of home economics, 2) to verify the problems encountered in implementing population education by home economists in its field, 3) to find an existing status of previous trainings received and other activities of population education of home economists aimed at utilizing these findings as a part of reference materials when the population education is conducted in the field of home economics. In order to attain these objectives described above, the questionnaire was carefully designed to house a total of 40 questions with good combination of multiple-choice and the simple answer questions. The mail questionnaire survey was conducted by establishing teachers of home economics at middle/high schools and college/universities as Senior Home Economists(SHE) who are from public, private liberal arts and vocational schools. The rate of response observed during the survey was 45.6 percent and the findings of the survey research are as follows: 1) Examining the status of the respondents by residence and religion, it was found that 45 percent of middle & high school teachers ar.d 59. 1 percent of college professors are residing in Seoul city area and that the largest percent of them are christian in their religion. Analyzing respondents by their ages, 56 percent of middle/high school teachers are in their 30s, 45 percent of college professors are in their 40s, and 37 percent of college teachers are in their 30s. In addition, 13 percent of the total respondents are found to be unmarried. The study also revealed that 71 percent of the college professors finished Master Degree course and 82 percent of middle/high school teachers are graduated from college level lasting 4 years. Looking over the status cf major fields of respondents, 68.4 percent of middle/high school teachers are specialized in home economic education and the college professors, on the other hand, show relatively even prortion by specializing in the order of food & nutrition science, clothes & textile science and home managerial science. As far as the length of teaching experience is concerned, a relatively longer period of teaching experience is observed in the college professors in comparison with that of middle/high school teachers. In other words, 33.3 percent of middle/high school teachers are experienced in teaching from 6 to 10 years on average while 43.9 percent of college professors show more than 16 years of experience. 2) Examining the status of existing number of children cf the respondents, one boy and one daughter pattern is predominant, showing 28.5 percent in middle/high school teachers and 21.1 percent in college professors. As for the desired number of children of unmarried respondents, it is observed that 43.8 percent of middle/high school teachers desire to have one boy and one girl, and 31.3 percent of college professors want to have one child regardless of the sex. By assessing the degree of awareness of the population education through their students, it is observed that 53 percent of middle/high school teachers and 50 percent of college professors are aware of population education in some extent and that a majority of respondents took the positive attitudes toward an inclusion of family planning components into the formal school education. Another noteworthy to observe is that a total of 84.8 percent out of middle/high school teachers pointed that the population education currently conducted at schools as a part of home economics are less sufficient than it should be. 3) Analyzing the tendency as to whether the respondents were experienced in receiving population education during the time when they were students, 75 percent of college professors and 59 percent of middle/high school teachers responded negative answers in the survey. In the mean time, a total of 50 percent of the respondents replied that they began to acknowledge the importance of population education mainly through the participation of some sort of population-education orientend seminars, experienced by 40 percent of college professors and 80 percent of middle/high school teachers. 4) What it calls attention in this study was to find that 96.5 percent of middle/high school teachers and 72 percent of college professors conduct population education to some extent during their lecture hours and that more than 80 percent of them are never experienced in teaching population and family planning contents in their regular classes. It is, on the other hand, found that no more than once was the response of those who believe themselves that they are experienced in teaching these relevant components to their students. Analyzing the contents of the subjects being taught in the class, a large percent of them are found to be consisted of population and family planning contents. According to this study, the current population education through the formal school is quite inactive. Analyzing the facts, 44.9 percent of the college professors responded that the population and family planning components are quite apart from their specialization which eventually generates lack of interest in the field. 5) It is also noticed through the study that the degree of frequency of commenting on population and family planning contents during the classes was depending significantly on their specializations which means that the degree of frequency varies from a major to another. Those who majored in home managerial science was the first one, as compared to others who majored in different specializations. Glancing over the status of correlations between ages of the respondents and numbers of seminar paticipation, it is quite clear that the aged group participated more than the younger group did, and that the most highest number of participations made by college professors were those who are in 50s. In addition, it is also found that those who are aged 20s and 60s of the respondents were the group who comments least on the contents of population and family planning at their classes. The suggestions and recommendation made through this survey research are as follows. 1) No one denies that the rapid increase of population, as compared to the limited size of land and resources, will certainly affect adversly to an enhancement of individual life quality which will, eventually, bring forth the poverty of the nation. This is the reasson why we are insisting that the world population be controlled up to an optimum level with a matter of global concerns. It is our understading that the primary aim for reducing number of population is believed to be attained only by conducting the systematic and comprehensive population education through the formal schools. Therefore, the role of home economists in the field of population/family planning education is considered very importment due to the fact that an ultimate goal of population education is placed in elevating the quality of family life by having optimum number of children through family planning program. 2) It is quite clear that home economists as teachers of formal school in all level are invited to pay their attention on redefining the ultimate goal of education and that of population education. We also understant that the primary objective of population education is to change the norm and value of the clients by replenishing the students with pertinent knowledge and attitudes on population and its related problems through a sort of education in order to attain the ultimate goal for enhancing the quality of life. There is no exception in the theory of home economics. An altimate goal of home economics is to elevate the general quality of life through an establishment of value existed in daily life. Considering the relations between population education and home economics, it is quite indespensable to bandle population components as an integral part in the field of home economics. We believe, therefore, that the senior home economists positive participation in the effort population control is more needed than it has been. 3) It is also strongly urged that population education should be a part of instructor training course for home economics. In other words, the teacher of home economics should be well aware of population and its problems by teaching interrelationship between population education and home economics, needs, contents and methods of population education during the instructor training courese for home economics. In addition, the senior home economists should be encouraged through positive participation on the short term training by types of domestic and international seminar, workshop, etc. 4) We certainly believe that the population education can not sustain itself without any backing-up of information and findings' of various and comprehensive researches of natural and social sciences. Accordingly, every senior home economist is invited to exert their maximum effort to conduct systematic study with an aim to utilize these findings and information at best in population education in the field of home economics. Therefore, we consider that the development of training material is imminent in order to provide effective and efficient population education through the for training of home economies. It should be noted that these training materials must be carefully designed, tailored and developed to meet the different classes of trainees under the considerations as to whether it is easily adaptable and infusable into the curricula of every field of home economics, and it is acceptable in the degree of difficulty and quality in its contents. 5) It is true that there are many domestic and international research rapers, reports and findings in the field of population education and family planning. However, there is a tendency that the most of research papers are heavily relying on the authors intension and preferences in its expression and publication. Under these circumstances, it is urged that the home economists should aware of the growing need of the technical training in order to keep these available information and research findings reprocessed and redesigned to insure the practical application into the population education in the field of home economics in Korea.