「食生活常識テスト」をテストする

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PROCEDURE The survey on knowledge of nutrition and on attitudes of mind with respect to family meals was made for 90 women by the questionaire method in spring, 1965. The questionaire involved, among a lot of items, those items which were for a test entitled "the test for common sense of nutrition" by some specialists. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS (1) Data obtained are from the replies received at 100 percent, that is, 90 replies. (2) Food preparation in general families has almost been done by women, mainly by housewives. (3) Women's attitudes of mind for their family meals are reasonable and correct from the point of view of proper meal planning. For they prepare dishes paying a special regard to these five items in the following order : i) tastes of all the family members, ii) a balance of diet, iii) an economy of time and labor for food preparation, iv) an economy in expenditures, v) a special consideration of the taste of a particular person in the family. (4) Correlation between nutritional knowledge and attitudes of mind for meals, and also correlation between dietary levels and nutritional knowledge can be recognized fairly well in view of the data that coefficient of correlation ranges from -0.16 up to +0.23. This means that variables of each set are little or not related at all. As we had the following doubts : (A) whether women's knowledge of nutrition was too poor, (B) whether there was a gap between knowledge and its practical application, (C) whether there was anything wrong in the test items for a common sense of nutrition, with special respect to the doubt (C) we have examined each item of the test by the G. P. test (good & poor grouping test). And we have obtained the following results : (a) 4 items out of 12 of the test are not appropriate for the test of such kind, (b) 5 items are based upon some unmaterialized theories or uncertain definitions on nutrition. with the result of the above, it is safe to say that 7 items out of 12 of the test are not appropriate to common people. Accordingly we would like to suggest to the author of the test book that some improvements should be made on the test items.