Meal and snack patterns of 7-13-year-old schoolchildren in southern Brazil.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim of the current study was to identify and describe the meal and snack patterns (breakfast, mid-morning snack, lunch, mid-afternoon snack, dinner and evening snack) of public schoolchildren.

Design

Cross-sectional study. Information on the previous day's food intake was obtained through the Web-CAAFE (Food Intake and Physical Activity of Schoolchildren), an interactive questionnaire, which divides daily food consumption into three meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner) and three snacks (mid-morning, mid-afternoon and evening). Each meal contains thirty-one food items and the schoolchildren clicked on the food items consumed in each meal. Factor analysis was used to identify meal and snack patterns. The descriptions of the dietary patterns (DP) were based on food

SUBMITTER: Cezimbra VG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10195537 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature