| Summary: | 碩士 === 嘉南藥理科技大學 === 保健營養系 === 101 === TDietary supplements (DS) can be benefit to prevention or treatment of chronic disease in order to health improvement. DS also may impact children on their attention, emotions, and behavior, which further influence their school performance. The purpose of this study is to investigate the usage and emotional status in DS users of 2nd graders in elementary school. Parents of students help to fill in the basic information and DS usage questionnaire, and the teachers prepared their Scale for Assessing Emotional Disturbance (SAED). Results indicated that: 1. Boys and girls were more than 60% DS usage. 2. “Representatives, supervisors or managers in public agencies or enterprises, and professionals” were higher in DS intake. 3. The reason for taking DS mostly was to improve children’s health to prevent allergies. 4. The weight, BMI and allergies of students who took DS were bad than those who didn’t consume DS, significantly. 5. Compared to without taking DS, the students showed poor performance on “Overall capacity” and “Physical symptoms or fear” of SAED, significantly. Besides, the students who taking more items of DS were expressed poor performance on “Relationship problems”(RP) and “Improper behavior” of SAED. The performance on “Improper behavior” of SAED of those who took regular DS also showed the same trend. Conclusion： DS usage and practice in students are need to follow-up investigation in according to dietary attitude and knowledge change.
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