광주광역시 초등학생의 가공식품에 함유된 식품첨가물에 대한 인식조사

Abstract

This study analyses how much and often elementary students eat processed food and differences in their recognition on food additives contained processed food, aiming at presenting useful basic data for teachers of home economics to teach students. For the study, 400 elementary students in Grade 5 and 6 were interviewed with uses of a questionnaire and 386 responses (201 boys and 185 girls)except 14 copies whose responses were not appropriate were used for the study. The study period was from March Second to Fifteenth, 2010. Frequency, means, standard deviation, Chi-Square(X2), T-test, and logistic regression test were obtained from the data collected with uses of SPSS version 17.0.

The results of the study are summarized as follows:

To examine whether the relations between recognition on safety of additives and the followings variables such as sex, age, number of inmates, whether to check additives or not in buying processed food, improvement in food quality through adding additives, needs to recognize additives, frequencies of eating Ramyeon, bread, soda, canned food are independent, a logistic regression test was conducted and the following variables showed significant relations: girl students had 4.20 times higher recognition rate that food additives are not safe (p<0.001) than boy students. Recognition of the respondents who have 5-6 inmates was significantly lower by 0.34 times than those who have 2-4 inmates(p=0.002). For effective education on food additives, the respondents preferred nutritional professionals by 3.50 times to mass-media (p=0.001). They answered it is necessary to recognize additives by 3.86 times(p=0.010). They answered they eat bread three or five times a week rather than everyday (0.17 times lower) and one or two times a week (0.32 times significantly lower and p=0.002). They answered they drink soda three or five times a week rather than everyday(2.77 times significantly higher and p=0.035), and more than three times a month (0.31 times significantly lower, 95% confidence interval 0.107-0.891 and p=0.030), and eat canned food three or five times a week rather than everyday (0.37 significantly lower and p=0.040).