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Children's perceived barriers for a healthy diet: a case study
| Resumo: | Having a healthy diet is a protective factor against several health problems. However, children’s diet still falls short the recommended international guidelines. Thus, the current study explores children’s perceived barriers to a healthy diet. The framework adopted to interpret the results was the Six C’s Model. The study comprehends 1343 responses to the prompt “Top 5 Barriers to a Healthy Diet”, from 274 students from the 5th and 6th grades, and data was analysed using content analysis. Findings showed that children highlighted factors that they can control and directly influence (e.g., “dietary intake”), as well as factors that they cannot control or directly influence, (e.g., “accessibility and proximity of food outlets”), as barriers to a healthy diet. Surprisingly, children seldom referred factors related to parents’ and family’s characteristics and behaviors, which was not anticipated by the authors. These findings may help deepen the understanding on the health eating processes and contribute to develop more effective interventions and campaigns to promote a healthy diet among children. |
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| Autores principais: | Vilas, Catarina Viana Oliveira |
| Assunto: | Barriers Children Content analysis Healthy diet Six C’s model Análise de conteúdo Alimentação saudável Barreiras Crianças Modelo dos Seis C’s Ciências Sociais::Psicologia |
| Ano: | 2020 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
| Resumo: | Having a healthy diet is a protective factor against several health problems. However, children’s diet still falls short the recommended international guidelines. Thus, the current study explores children’s perceived barriers to a healthy diet. The framework adopted to interpret the results was the Six C’s Model. The study comprehends 1343 responses to the prompt “Top 5 Barriers to a Healthy Diet”, from 274 students from the 5th and 6th grades, and data was analysed using content analysis. Findings showed that children highlighted factors that they can control and directly influence (e.g., “dietary intake”), as well as factors that they cannot control or directly influence, (e.g., “accessibility and proximity of food outlets”), as barriers to a healthy diet. Surprisingly, children seldom referred factors related to parents’ and family’s characteristics and behaviors, which was not anticipated by the authors. These findings may help deepen the understanding on the health eating processes and contribute to develop more effective interventions and campaigns to promote a healthy diet among children. |
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