영양교사의 영양교육 실태와 비대면 온라인 영양교육에 대한 인식 및 요구도

Abstract

Objectives This study was conducted to understand the nutrition education reality among nutrition teachers at elementary, middle, and high schools and examine the awareness and demand for non-face-to-face online nutrition education.
 Methods The subjects of this study were 158 nutrition teachers at elementary, middle, and high schools in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province. For the collected data, the Chi-squared test, Fisher's exact test, or independent sample t-test were performed according to the analysis items using SPSS Statistics version 26.0.
 Results The study showed that nutrition education was more prominent in elementary than middle and high schools. The lack of time due to overwork in nutrition teachers was suggested as the main reason for the failure to provide nutrition education. As the methods of implementing nutrition education, it was found that there were many direct education methods in the form of lectures during discretionary activity time in elementary schools, whereas indirect education methods using school newsletter were common in middle and high schools. As for the contents of nutrition education in schools for the past year, a balanced diet, good eating habits, and table manner were taught in the lower grades of elementary school, and food poisoning management was educated in the upper grades of elementary school. In addition, the proportions of contents on a balanced diet, obesity prevention and weight management, food poisoning management, food hygiene, eating blandly, and nutrition labeling were high in middle school. There was a high level of education in high school on healthy snack intake, obesity prevention and weight management, and nutrition labeling. Less than half of the study subjects experienced online nutrition education. The limitations of online nutrition education were the lack of a sense of presence with learners in online nutrition education and the restrictions on activity classes such as practice and experience. The highest percentage responded that various content levels are needed to be provided as a measure to improve online nutrition education.
 Conclusions Based on the results of this study, measures to activate online nutrition education are needed to be performed non-face-to-face in preparation for the occurrence and spread of infectious diseases such as COVID-19.