Korean J Community Nutr.  2012 Feb;17(1):26-37. 10.5720/kjcn.2012.17.1.26.

Intake Pattern and Needs Assessment for the Development of Web-Contents on Health Functional Foods according to Age of Adults

• Ohn J
• Kim JH

• KMID: 2267383
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.5720/kjcn.2012.17.1.26

Abstract

This study was done to analyze the consumption patterns of health functional food (HFF) as well as to perform needs assessment for the development of web-contents on HFF according to age of adults. The subjects were 238 male and female adults, divided into 4 groups by their age. This study collected all information by self-administrated questionnaires. The awareness on HFF was high in the older adults. The younger adults showed more negative responses to reliability and safety on HFF. The main reason for the consumption of HFF was to supplement nutrients and to prevent diseases. The main types of HFF consumed by adults were nutritional supplementary food, red ginseng products, and glucosamine products. There was higher consumption of nutritional supplementary food in the younger adults and glucosamine products in the older adults. Internet users had low level of satisfaction, with tendency to complain poor contents, reliability, difficulties in searching as problems of the pre-existing HFF websites. As useful methods for provision of information on HFF, most adults wanted general information, articles written by experts and videos. They also wanted to know the safety and side effects of HFF. Requirement of contents composition were various in-depth information, clear indication of citation, fresh updated data while that of display composition was easily-findable, uncomplicated, allowing mutual exchange of communication through bulletin board. These results can be used as basic data that reflect the consumer's needs for developing HFF web-contents according to age of adults.

Keyword

health functional food; consumption pattern; needs assessment; web-contents

MeSH Terms

Adult
Female
Functional Food
Glucosamine
Humans
Internet
Male
Needs Assessment
Panax
Surveys and Questionnaires
Glucosamine

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