Comportamento alimentar de escolares : aplicação do questionário do comportamento alimentar da criança (CEBQ).

Abstract

Objective: Assess schoolchildren eating behaviour from a private school in Santa Cruz do Sul/RS, relating with nutritional, sex and parents schooling. Methodology: Cross-sectional design study, which had as participants schoolchildren aged between nine and eleven years old. The eating behaviour was assessed through the Children’s Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (CEBQ), whose 35 items are divided into eight subscales, which four assess the interest for food: food responsiveness (FR), enjoyment of food (EF), desire to drink (DD) and emotional over-eating (EEO), further subscales assess the disinterest for food: satiety responsiveness (SR), slowness in eating (SE), food fussiness (FF) and emotional under-eating (EEU). The nutritional status was assessed through the body mass index z-score to the age. About parents schooling, was always considered the higher degree referred. Results: have participated 34 10,5 ( 0,59 years old) schoolchildren, of whom 52,9% were male. It was found the prevalence of eutrophia (55,9%), followed by overweight (29,4%) and obesity (14,7%). About parents schooling, it was also found that most of them had superior course complete (58,8%), followed by post-graduation (26,5%) and high school (14,7%). Conclusion: The association among eating behaviour, sex, nutritional status and parents schooling did not demonstrate statistically significant results, with the exception of the subscale “food responsiveness” that showed a certain level of significance whenever related to the nutritional status (p= 0,056), achieving higher scores in obesity (2,76) and overweight (2,36) groups.