중원지역 성인 여성의 영양 지식,식습관 및 영양 섭취 실태에 대한 조사 연구 = A Study on the Nutritional Knowledge, Food Habits and Nutrient Intakes of Adult Women Living in Jungwon Area

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This study was conducted to investigate the nutritional knowledge, food habits and nutrient intakes of adult women living in Jungwon area. The number of subjects were 137. They were randomly selected and self-administered questionnaires were used. The completely answered questionnaires were analyzed for general characteristics, health related factors, food habits, nutritional knowledge and nutrient intakes. The results obtained are summarized as follows : 43.1% of the subjects were belonged to underweight and 53.3% were standard. Most of them felt healthy and thought that good diet is most important for health maintenance of all. Most of the subjects had meals for physiological needs(for satisfying their hunger) rather than for nutrition or preference. 40.9% of subjects valued dinner the most and the rate of skipping breakfast was very high(36.5%). The average food habit score was 3.90 out of 10 points. Most of the subjects belonged to 'poor' or 'fair' food habit group, which is considered to be relatively poor. Perceived knowledge level was high(91.93%) and the accuracy of the knowledge was 70.60%. The average nutritional knowledge score was 13.01 out of 20 points. There was a high correlation between food habit score and nutritional knowledge score, between food habit score and perceived knowledge(P<.01). Average calorie intake was 1,663.5±419.3㎉/day, which was 83.2% of the RDA for adult woman. Carbohydrate, protein and fat ratio on energy composition was 61.0%, 15.5%, 23.5% respectively. The average intakes of protein, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin B1, niacin were above the RDA for koreans, but of vitamin B2, Ca, Fe were below the RDA. Therefore, for better food habit and health it is required that nutritional education programs for adult women should be carried out systematically.