Abstract
This study analyzes diet improvement strategies for students enrolled in special schools for the physically disabled. Six special schools for physical disabilities at the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education were selected for the study. An electronic survey was conducted from November 14 to November 27, 2022, enrolling 107 special school teachers and 227 parents as study subjects. The questionnaire for special school teachers comprised 32 questions related to demographic information of the teachers, workplace information, and diet improvement strategies for students in special schools for the physically disabled. The questionnaire for parents consisted of 36 questions related to the demographic information of parents and students, characteristics of the student’s disability, and diet improvement strategies for students enrolled in special schools. Diet improvement strategies were alphanumeric coded according to the ICF-CY coding guidelines, and frequency analysis and independent samples t-test were conducted for statistical analysis. The significance level of the statistics was 0.05, as determined by a two-tailed test. Results of this study indicate that it is possible to identify diet improvement strategies that can be applied preferentially to meals at special schools for the physically disabled. This is the first study that applied the ICF-CY Framework to school food services and coded the diet improvement strategies for students in special schools into an alphanumeric coding system. This study is meaningful since it provides information expressed in a standardized common language that can be applied in various fields related to the health of students with physical disabilities as well as school meals. These results could also find an application as basic data for the diet of people with brain lesions such as cerebral palsy, and the management and policy of food services for other disabilities.
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