tatus of Meal Serving and Nutritional Quality of Foods Served for Children at Community Child Centers in Korea

Kwon, Sooyoun; Yeoh, Yoonjae

doi:10.17495/easdl.2015.4.25.2.352

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“…Although a few studies have attempted to identify children's dietary behaviors and the food environment at CCC, most of them tended to use cross-sectional questionnaire survey tools [27][28][29] that make it difficult to identify the real nature of the CCCs' food-related environment. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate vulnerable children's dietary behaviors and the food environment at CCC in South Korea using a convergent parallel mixed-methods design, which provides more breadth and depth of understanding of the research topic [30].…”

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Diet-Related Disparities and Childcare Food Environments for Vulnerable Children in South Korea: A Mixed-Methods Study

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Diet-related disparities that have often been observed in vulnerable families may play a negative role in children’s health and health-related quality of life. In South Korea, an afterschool care policy, called Community Childcare Center (CCC), was established in the 1960s to protect and educate vulnerable children; this role has expanded to provide meal services in recent times. Therefore, the CCCs’ food environment has become a pivotal platform for observing children’s nutrition and health-related disparities. Using a mixed-methods approach including a survey with self-reported questionnaires, field observation, and participant interviews, the food environment of CCC was explored alongside children’s eating behaviors. Eating behaviors were not as healthy as expected. Although service providers and cooks reported in the survey responses that the centers’ food environment was healthy, participant observations and interviews revealed a significant gap. Establishing a standardized food environment and improving the nutrition literacy of workers as a significant human resource at a CCC can promote healthy eating for vulnerable children. The findings suggest that in the absence of steps to improve the food environment of CCC, diet-related disparities may affect children’s health in the future.

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“…However, they have no particular expertise in nutrition and cooking. In addition, a recent study by Kwon and Yeoh [15] showed that the food served at CCCs did not meet the current dietary and nutrition standards for growing children in Korea. Slightly more than half of the centers (55.7%) had the facilities to systematically provide average-to-good quality food, but a lack of expertise and frequent employee turnover of assistant cooks at CCCs were repeatedly mentioned as problems [16,17].…”

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Who are the Assistant Cooks at the Community Child Centers in South Korea? Focus Group Interviews with Workfare Program Participants

Park¹,

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Kim³

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Child Health Nurs Res

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Purpose: Community child centers (CCCs) were introduced to provide after-school activities and care, including meal services to children from low-income families. The assistant cooks, who have the main responsibility for making and serving food at CCCs, are a major factor influencing the eating habits of children using CCCs. In this study, we tried to identify and understand who the assistant cooks are, what their job responsibilities are, and what they need in order to be able to provide children with healthy meals.Methods: Three focus group interviews were held with 17 workfare program participants who worked as assistant cooks at CCCs, and content analysis methods were applied using the NVivo 12 qualitative data analysis software.Results: The assistant cooks reflected on their perceptions of the children's health at the CCCs, their own cooking style, and their role at the CCCs. Additionally, barriers to the optimal provision of their services were pointed out, and improvements were suggested.Conclusion: The results of this study can be used as a fundamental resource for the development of tailored interventions that consider a child's unique environment to address health disparities, specifically with respect to childhood obesity.

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Assessment of Foodservice and Cooking Program for Children Attending Community Child Centers in Korea

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2016

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tatus of Meal Serving and Nutritional Quality of Foods Served for Children at Community Child Centers in Korea

Cited by 7 publications

References 8 publications

Diet-Related Disparities and Childcare Food Environments for Vulnerable Children in South Korea: A Mixed-Methods Study

Diet-Related Disparities and Childcare Food Environments for Vulnerable Children in South Korea: A Mixed-Methods Study

Who are the Assistant Cooks at the Community Child Centers in South Korea? Focus Group Interviews with Workfare Program Participants

Assessment of Foodservice and Cooking Program for Children Attending Community Child Centers in Korea

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