Abstract
A questionnaire survey was conducted among 435 female college students living in Sapporo area, Hokkaido, to study their attitude toward health and dietary life a seen in their living styles.
1) A comparison of attitude toward diet at home among three living styles suggested that 97% of those in their own house and 85% of students in dormitory consider that they enjoy meal either “little” or “much” or “ very much”, which indicate that both groups enjoy meal. On the other hand, a higher figure of 24% of students in boarding houses compared to only 15% of students in dormitory consider that they are “not enjoying” meal, which confirmed that higher number of students in boarding houses don't enjoy meal (among three living styles p<0.001, between their own houses and dormitory p<0.05, between their own house and boarding houses p<0.001).
2) Comparatively higher food intake rate was observed in students in their own houses, followed by students in dormitory, and students in boarding houses at the lowest.Compared to students in their own houses, the kind of foods which showed lower food intake rate in students in dormitory were seafood and seaweed, which showed statistical significance (seafood p<0.001 and seaweed p<0.05).
3) A higher figure of 54% of students in boarding houses compared to 32% of those in their own houses and 43% of those in dormitory skip meal either “quite often” or “sometimes” . On the other hand, a lower figure of 46% of students in boarding houses compared to 68% of students in their own houses and 57% of students in dormitory “do not skip meal”, which showed a tendency of higher meal skipping rate in students in boarding houses (among three living styles p<0.001, between their own houses and boarding houses p<0.001).
