Current Status and Strategic Plan of Nutrition Education Comparing Nutrition Teachers with Dietitians in Schools, Gyeonggi Area

Hong, Young-sun; Lee, Joung-hee

doi:10.5720/kjcn.2013.18.3.233

Korean J Community Nutr. 2013 Jun;18(3):233-242. Korean.
Published online Jun 30, 2013.
https://doi.org/10.5720/kjcn.2013.18.3.233

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Current Status and Strategic Plan of Nutrition Education Comparing Nutrition Teachers with Dietitians in Schools, Gyeonggi Area

Young-sun Hong and Joung-hee Lee¹

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- Seokcheon Elementary School, Hwaseong, Korea.
- ¹Department of Nutrition Education, Kyonggi University, Suwon, Korea.
Corresponding author: Joung-hee Lee, Department of Nutrition Education, Graduate School of Education, Kyonggi University, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do 443-760, Korea. Tel: (031) 249-9295, Fax: (031) 249-9036, Email: joungheelee@kgu.ac.kr

Received May 16, 2013; Revised June 24, 2013; Accepted June 28, 2013.

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Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate how implementation of direct nutrition education differs between nutrition teachers and dietitians in Gyeonggi Area. In this study, we collected data from 107 nutrition teachers and 129 dietitians in 2012. Among those who have answered they implemented direct nutrition education for the last one year, 36% were nutrition teachers and 10% were dietitians (p < 0.05). Among subjects who implemented direct education, a significantly greater percentage of nutrition teachers used a class as an education time to conduct creative hands-on-activity compare to dietitians (p < 0.05). However, for most dietitians, school meal time was more commonly used for direct nutrition education. When asked to make a suggestion regarding improvement for school nutrition education, the highest rate of people chose simplification of school administrative work (4.68 points) was needed. Developing nutrition education (4.55 points) showed the next highest rate. The rest of the answers were the following order; regular training of teaching methods (4.50 points), increasing awareness of school teachers (4.50 points), improving school facilities and financial support (4.47 points), preparing teaching plan (4.46 points), providing incentive for direct education (4.26 points), organizing regular class for nutrition education (4.17 points), and placing nutrition teachers (4.16 points). This study provides useful information including manageable workload of nutrition teachers and dietitians, capacity building and supportive school environment to be delivered with respect to nutrition education system in South Korea.

Keywords

nutrition teacher; dietitian; direct nutrition education; strategic plan

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General characteristic of subjects

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Table 2
Implementation of nutrition education

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Time for direct nutrition education and teaching method

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Preparation and collection methods of teaching plan and education materials

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Training participation and training place

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Suggestions for improving school nutrition education

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