The Influence of Dietary Characteristics of Primary School Teacher on the knowledge of Children’s Dietary Habits in Osaka

小学校教員の食行動が子どもの食生活に対する問題意識に及ぼす影響を検討する目的で，公立小学校教員に対して質問紙調査を実施し，因子分析により「食健康情報」「食習慣」「好奇心」「運動・体力」４因子を得た。次に「食健康情報」と「食習慣」の因子得点を用い，クラスタ分析にて教員を４群に分類した。食健康情報に関心がある2群は食習慣の如何を問わず80%以上が女性であり，40%以上が50歳以上であった。食健康情報に対する関心が低い２群は男女比・世代分布ともほぼ均一であった。子どもの食生活に関する問題意識は食習慣や食健康情報が正反対の2群で類似の回答傾向を示し，食健康情報に対する意識に影響を受けると考えられた。ゆえに，養護教諭や栄養教諭の教員に対する健康管理の一環として情報リテラシーの習得に関する支援の必要性が示唆された。The food education of children in primary school extends to various fields. Therefore, it is supposed that teacher's eating behavior effect to the food education. But little is known about the relationship teacher's eating behavior and the problem of children's eating. The aim of this study was to describe the effect of the dietary characteristics of primary school teacher on the knowledge of children dietary habits. A questionnaire survey was conducted among 551 teachers of elementary school in Osaka. A factor analysis was performed on the teacher's dietary characteristics, and four factors were extracted. The cumulative contribution rate was 52.0%. Conducted clustering analysis on two factors scores namely “food and health information” and “food environment”, the teachers were divided into four groups. Two groups proved plus data with food environment were composed of women above 80%, and composed of fifty years old above 40%. On the other hand, it was thought that food information more influenced recognition to teacher's child's eating habits. These results was suggested that the needs to acquire food information literacy for the teacher