Abstract
Aiming to study the relationships among junior high school students′ and their parents′ dietary lives, attitude toward prevention of lifestyle-related diseases, and health conditions, We conducted a questionnaire survey targeting junior high school students and their parents in Ibaraki prefecture. The items surveyed were their cooking skills, consciousness regarding foods, attitude toward prevention of lifestyle-related diseases, frequency of food intake, health conditions, and knowledge of foods and lifestyle-related diseases.
First, we surveyed the relationships between the junior high school students and their parents as to the survey items.
Next, we surveyed the relationship between the parents′ consciousness regarding foods and the students′ dietary life.
The result of the survey revealed that the students′ and their parents′ cooking skills, consciousness regarding foods, attitude toward prevention of lifestyle-related diseases, frequency of food intake, health conditions, and knowledge of foods and lifestyle-related diseases were mutually related to one another. Also, it was indicated that the parents′ consciousness regarding foods affected their children′s dietary life and health conditions.
