保育所における子どもの健康支援，子育て支援の推進，さらに食育の推進が組み込まれる状況のなか，保育環境での栄養士の役割を検討することを目的に保育士へのアンケートを実施した．対象は乳児保育担当保育士等研修会に参加した北海道内の保育士165 名である．研修時に配布，研修終了日に回収した．148 名から回答が得られ，回収率は89.6％であった．調査内容は，①勤務先保育園の場所，②保育園の経営形態，③勤続年数，④保育園における管理栄養士または栄養士の配置状況と必要性，⑤保育園での食教育の取り組み内容，⑥管理栄養士・栄養士への要望または意見についてなどの項目からなる．結果は，管理栄養士・栄養士の配置がある園での食に関する教育の取り組みが多かった．経営形態別による取り組みの違いには大きな差が見られなかった．保育士の経験年数による要望の差では，5年以下の保育士は「給食・献立の充実」と「子どもや保護者との関わり」を望み，勤続年数が長くなるにつれ，「他職種との連携」を望むものが多くなっている．これらの結果から，栄養士に対する要望と評価，給食に対する要望と評価を考察し，保育園における栄養士の役割を検討した．

We conducted a questionnaire survey of nursery teachers in order to investigate the roles that dieticians should play in nursery school settings under the current circumstances in which child health and parenting support, as well as food and nutrition education, at nursery schools are being promoted. We distributed the questionnaire to 165 nursery teachers in Hokkaido who attended a training session for nursery teachers in charge of infants during the session and collected responses from 148 (89.6%) teachers on the last day of the session. The question items were about: i) the location of the nursery school they work for; ii) the form of management of the nursery school; iii) their years of service; iv) the presence of, and need for, a dietician or a registered dietician at the nursery school; v) what food and nutrition education is provided at the nursery school; vi) requests to, or opinions about, dieticians or registered dieticians. The results showed that, for all nine items relating to food and nutrition education, a higher percentage of nursery schools with a dietician or a registered dietician conducted them than nursery schools without a dietician. The form of management did not make a significant difference. Many nursery teachers with five or less years of service were found to expect dieticians to “improve the quality and menu of school lunch” and “be involved with children and parents”, while the longer their years of service were, the more nursery teachers were found to expect dieticians to “collaborate with other professionals”. Based on these results, we discussed requests for, and the evaluation of, dieticians and school lunch, and examined the roles that dieticians should play at nursery schools.

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