[Children's eating behaviour: comparison between normal and overweight children from a school in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil].
REVISTA PAULISTA DE PEDIATRIA 2015;
33:42-9. [PMID:
25662562 PMCID:
PMC4436955 DOI:
10.1016/j.rpped.2014.11.007]
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE:
To evaluate differences in children's eating behavior in relation to their
nutritional status, gender and age.
METHODS:
Male and female children aged six to ten years were included. They were recruited
from a private school in the city of Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil,
in 2012. Children´s Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (CEBQ) subscales were used to
assess eating behaviors: Food Responsiveness (FR), Enjoyment of Food (EF), Desire
to Drink (DD), Emotional Overeating (EOE), Emotional Undereating (EUE), Satiety
Responsiveness (SR), Food Fussiness (FF) and Slowness in Eating (SE). Age-adjusted
body mass index (BMI) z-scores were calculated according to the WHO
recommendations to assess nutritional status.
RESULTS:
The study sample comprised 335 children aged 87.9±10.4 months and 49.3% had
normal weight (n=163), 26% were overweight (n=86), 15% were obese (n=50) and 9.7%
were severely obese (n=32). Children with excess weight showed higher scores at
the CEBQ subscales associated with "food approach" (FR, EF, DD, EOE,
p<0.001) and lower scores on two "food avoidance" subscales
(SR and SE, p<0.001 and p=0.003,
respectively) compared to normal weight children. Differences in the eating
behavior related to gender and age were not found.
CONCLUSIONS:
"Food approach" subscales were positively associated to excess weight in
children, but no associations with gender and age were found.
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