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Nutrition knowledge in adolescents: perception of parents and peers behavior and stimulus

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Resumo:It is well known the influence that parents and peers have in children and adolescent choices and behaviors, including eating habits and physical activity practice. No work has been done yet about parents and peers influence in nutrition knowledge. This work aims to study the relation between adolescents’ perception of parents and peers food habits, physical activity practice, stimulus to the adolescent to follow a healthy diet and be physically active and adolescents Nutritional Knowledge. Methods: A translated and validated version of the Nutritional Knowledge Questionnaire (Parmenter and Wardle, 1999) was used with another questionnaire about adolescents’ perception of parents and peers behavior and stimulus. Results: Data from a 653 male and female sample, mean age 15.9 years (SD = 2.10) show that Nutrition Knowledge is related to the perception adolescents have of their fathers’ physical activity level (P < 0.05), and of their mothers (P < 0.05) and peers (P < 0.01) healthy eating habits. No statistical significance was found to the relation between nutrition knowledge and all other adolescent perceptions. Conclusions: These results suggest that beside there is a relation of Nutrition Knowledge and parents and peers perceived habits, the major role must be in schools. Showing that school based and adolescent focused interventions must be planned to improve nutrition knowledge.
Autores principais:Ferro-Lebres, Vera
Outros Autores:Ribeiro, José Carlos; Moreira, Pedro; Silva, Gustavo Gonçalves; Aires, Luísa
Assunto:Nutrition knowledge Adolescents
Ano:2010
País:Portugal
Tipo de documento:documento de conferência
Tipo de acesso:acesso aberto
Instituição associada:Instituto Politécnico de Bragança
Idioma:inglês
Origem:Biblioteca Digital do IPB

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