초등학생의 식행동과 주관적 건강상태의 상관관계분석

Abstract

The purpose of this study was analysis of correlation between eating habits and subjective health status of elementary school students. To do this 600 elementary school students in Incheon (200 each from Grade 4, 5 and 6) were recruited through convenient sampling method. For the final analysis, materials of 579 were utilized. Survey tool was questionnaire and the materials were processed using PASW 21.0 program. Frequency analysis was performed on personal characteristics, eating habits, and subjective health status and correlation analysis was performed for eating habit and subjective health status at the level of p<.05. The followings are the results. First, in the survey on general number of meals per day, average eating time per meal, regularity of meals, overeating, whether to eat snacks daily, and regularity of breakfast, students who do not eat their breakfast are up to 45∼50%, which shows they do not eat regularly or have good eating habits. Second, in subjective health status, 79.8% answered that they were healthy or very healthy. It shows we need to educate them to have right eating habit to promote physical, emotional and social development.Third, in the survey on relationship between eating habits and subjective health status, meal regularity (p<.001), breakfast regularity (p<.01) had positive correlation with subjective health status, and overeating (p<.05) had negative correlation with subjective health status. Conclusively, we need to enhance positive perception on subjective health status to make them promote their physical and mental development with the provision of right information on eating behaviors and their importance on health status.