Korean J Community Nutr.  2008 Feb;13(1):34-45.

A Comparison of Food and Nutrient Intake Status of Aged Females in A Rural Long Life Community by the Stage Model of Dietary Behavior Change

• Park MY
• Chun BY
• Joo SJ
• Jeong GB
• Huh CH
• Kim GR
• Park PS

Abstract

For the correct dietary habit and balanced dietary intake of aged people, the nutrition management that fits to the dietary behavior change stage has to be accomplished. In order to do so, in this paper, we chose 175 women that are aged more than 65 years old who are rural long life community residents and surveyed the dietary intake for 2 days including a twice depth interview and the 24 hour recall method. Also, for the sake of our aim, using the transtheoretical model, the dietary behavior change stage group was divided into the contemplation stage group, the preparation stage group, the action stage group and the maintenance stage group. The results are as follows: In the intake amount of protein (p < 0.01), vitamin B1 (p < 0.05) and vitamin B6 (p < 0.05), the intake amount of these nutrients in the action stage group and the maintenance stage group were significantly larger than the intake amount in the contemplation stage group and the preparation stage group. The nutrition evaluation according to the dietary behavior change stage, the ratio of subjects who took insufficient amount of energy, protein, vitamin A, and vitamin C were low as the dietary behavior change stage was upgraded. The subjects of maintenance stage group were most likely to consume vegetables more than once a day, and consume fruits and milk and milk products more than 5 times/week. MAR [13], MAR [10] and MAR [4] of subjects in the action stage group and the maintenance stage roup were significantly higher than MAR [13], MAR [10] and MAR [4] of subjects in the contemplation stage group and the preparation stage group (p < 0.001). From the above results, there were differences of nutrient intakes according to the dietary behavior change stage. Therefore, it is considered that the intervention for the dietary behavior motivation induction has to be advanced before accomplishing the individually fitting intervention at the time of nutrient management intervention.

Keyword

transtheoretical model; contemplation stage; preparation stage; action stage; maintenance stage

MeSH Terms

Aged
Ascorbic Acid
Female
Food Habits
Fruit
Humans
Milk
Motivation
Thiamine
Vegetables
Vitamin A
Vitamin B 6
Ascorbic Acid
Thiamine
Vitamin A
Vitamin B 6