A Study on Nutrition Educatiun of Schools with School Lunch

급식학교(給食學校)의 영양교육(營養敎育) 실태(實態)에 관한 조사연구(調査硏究)

In order to find out how nutrition education is going on the lunch feeding school, a questionaire was distributed to 541 primary schools all over the country. (from Nov.26, 1985 to Dec. 31, 1958) Through the answer sheet, it is found the following results; 1. Necessity of school lunch received most affirmative response with 97.3% of principals 59.0% of parents and 72.3% of students. 2. Importance of nutrition education at school was strongly felt with 98.1% of affirmative answers. Children's understanding about it and throughness of the education was very low with the average of 22.1% and 28.1% respectively. 3. Extracurricular nutrition education was being done at 77.8%; once or twice a month 46.8% and once or twice a week 36.3%. It was done at lunch hour at 53.9% of the schools. In 57.7% of the cases dieticians are in charge of the education. 4. Some do it by classroom teaching (45.4%), some by correspondence (30.9%) and others by V.T.R. or slides (11.8%, 8.3% respectively). 5. Most of the respondents felt that it should be done by the professional dietician.