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Knowledge of good nutrition, physical activity and sleeping habits in pre-schoolers
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Children’s knowledge about food and nutrition is very important for the development
of appropriate patterns of eating behaviour. Nowadays, because children’s
input is becoming to get more importance in parents’ decisions about nutritional
choices it is important to contribute for their knowledge development regarding
not only nutrition or food but also healthy habits regarding sleeping and physical
activities.
The purpose of this study was to contribute for the assessment of nutrition/food
preferences in pre-schoolers and the contribution of gaming for nutrition/food
knowledge evaluation. It also intended to establish a relation between children’s BMI
and the knowledge of nutrition/food and good sleep and physical activities habits.
An observational, cross-sectional, quantitative study was conducted with 364
children’s attending preschool from a metropolitan area of the norther region of
Portugal and their parents.
Food preferences varied from pasta (13.4%) to meat (8.8%) or tomatoes (6.3%)
and undesired foods were, among others, *sh (16.2%), soup (13.2%), tomatoes
(12.6%) and onions (10.7%). Preschoolers showed high levels of knowledge regarding
food categorization (92.3%), good sleeping habits (90.1%) and good physical
activities habits (94.0%).
Results showed signi*cant di+erences for sleeping habits knowledge with lower
BMI (kg/m2) for children that gave correct answers (M = 16.35, SD = 2.04 vs. M =
17.62, SD = 2.37). Children with increased BMI showed more risk of poor knowledge
regarding good sleeping habits (aOR = 1.33, 95% CI = [1.07-1.69]). Parent’s low education
was found to be a risk factor for children’s poor knowledge of good sleeping
habits (OR = 8.21, 95% CI = [1.85-35.55]).
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Nutrition Physical activities Food Sleep
Citation
Borges da Cunha Ferreira JF, Da Silva Reis dos Santos Ferreira MM, Barreto da Silva de Sousa Rêgo CM. Knowledge of good nutrition, physical activity and sleeping habits in pre-schoolers. Suplemento Digital Rev ROL Enferm 2018; 41(11-12)