야간 근로자의 식품선택유형에 따른건강정보 인지수준이 힐링 욕구에 미치는 영향

Abstract

In this study, 594 questionnaires administered to men and women residing in the capital metropolitan area who worknight shifts were analyzed in order to study the effect of health information cognition on healing needs in accordance withthe type of food selection criteria of the night worker. The results of confirmatory factor analysis in deriving food selectiontype identified four categories, a safety seeking type, a food exploratory type, a habitual seeking type, and a rational type,and the cognition types on health information were classified into physical cognition and psychological cognition. The needfor healing, which was the investigated factor, was found to have a high correlation between questionnaire items with highreliable consistency. The results of this study were as follows. First, the food selection types of safety seeking type and habitualfood seeking type had significant positive effects on the cognitive level of physical health information, and food exploratorytype and habitual seeking type had significant positive effects on the cognitive level of psychological health information. Inaddition, it was shown that food exploratory type and rational type had significant positive effects on healing needs. As aresult of this study, it was found that the cognition level of physical and psychological information was different accordingto food selection type, and the higher the cognitive level, the higher the healing needs. In particular, the result that the levelof psychological health information significantly affected healing needs signifies that there is a demand to develop programsand menus that satisfy various needs related to healing and recovery from fatigue. In addition, further interest and study onthe health and healing of night workers are required.