幼稚園児の食べ物の名前認知度と母親の食意識との関連

Abstract

We conducted the questionnaire survey on the mothers' interest in eating and examined a possible relationship between the mothers' interest and the results of their children's the food name familiarity test. The survey was carried out on 68 and 71 mothers of five- and four-year-olds, respectively, in November, 2008. The questionnaire contains 19 questions about their interest in eating and 20 about their training in eating at home. The subjects of the survey were the mothers of the children belonging to a private kindergarten, where the food name familiarity test was performed using 20 kinds of food (whole and cut foods) . The mean percentage scores of correct answers among the five-year-old children were 77.0% and 70.5% for the wholes and the cuts, respectively, and among the four-year-old children 68.0% and 60.5% for the whiles and the cuts, respectively. There was a significant relation between the number of mothers who buy food after checking its label for produced area and the percentage of a correct answer, both for wholes and cuts, among the four-yearold children(p=0.049,p＜0.0001). And there was also a significant relation between the number of mothers who teach their children to chew well during meal and the percentage of a correct answer, both for wholes and cuts, among the five-year-old c hildren(p=0.0021,p=0.007). It was suggested that the kindergarteners can learn the names of food quickly and easily through their rich exposure to food at home when their mothers have much interest in eating