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Dietary Habits among Adolescent Girls and Their Association with Parental Educational Levels

BACKGROUND: Adolescence is a period of rapid psychological development and the appearance of secondary sex characteristics. Changes in facial structure are the most visible manifestation during this period. It is during adolescence period that the importance of optimal nutrients is greatest. Improvi...

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Autores principales: Alavi1, Manijeh, Eftekhari, Monir Baradaran, Noot, Rosemary, Rafinejad, Jafar, Chinekesh, Ahdieh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Canadian Center of Science and Education 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4776835/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23985122
http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v5n5p202
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author Alavi1, Manijeh
Eftekhari, Monir Baradaran
Noot, Rosemary
Rafinejad, Jafar
Chinekesh, Ahdieh
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description BACKGROUND: Adolescence is a period of rapid psychological development and the appearance of secondary sex characteristics. Changes in facial structure are the most visible manifestation during this period. It is during adolescence period that the importance of optimal nutrients is greatest. Improving the nutrition of teenage girls especially is important girls because consequently will affect the health in future. In present study hypothesis is that improving the nutrition of teenage girls is correlated with the level of parental education and the adolescents’ eating habits. METHODS: In this study, 386 random selected adolescent girls were selected by cluster sampling. We used questionnaire to study the level of knowledge to major nutritional problems and consuming optimal nutrients. Finally, collected data were analyzed by using descriptive techniques and statistical analysis. RESULTS: According to the results of present study the mean of age, weight and height of the participants were 13/2 years, 159/1 cm, and 52.05 kg respectively. The 48.4 percent of the participants not eat breakfast. The 67.4 percentages of girls daily were consuming bread and cereals, 57.5 fruits and vegetables, 62.7 dairy products, and 27.7 meat and eggs. In addition, 36.3 percentages of these girls consumed sweets everyday as part of their diet. The nutritional knowledge of participating in diet was on the average and common source of information were counselors and teachers at school (36 percentages). The results of our study revealed that there was a significant relationship between variations in level of parental educational level and dietetic safety of offspring (p<0.05). Our conclusion is the interactive education and parental literacy especially is important regarding to the adolescent nutrition and health.
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spelling pubmed-47768352016-04-21 Dietary Habits among Adolescent Girls and Their Association with Parental Educational Levels Alavi1, Manijeh Eftekhari, Monir Baradaran Noot, Rosemary Rafinejad, Jafar Chinekesh, Ahdieh Glob J Health Sci Articles BACKGROUND: Adolescence is a period of rapid psychological development and the appearance of secondary sex characteristics. Changes in facial structure are the most visible manifestation during this period. It is during adolescence period that the importance of optimal nutrients is greatest. Improving the nutrition of teenage girls especially is important girls because consequently will affect the health in future. In present study hypothesis is that improving the nutrition of teenage girls is correlated with the level of parental education and the adolescents’ eating habits. METHODS: In this study, 386 random selected adolescent girls were selected by cluster sampling. We used questionnaire to study the level of knowledge to major nutritional problems and consuming optimal nutrients. Finally, collected data were analyzed by using descriptive techniques and statistical analysis. RESULTS: According to the results of present study the mean of age, weight and height of the participants were 13/2 years, 159/1 cm, and 52.05 kg respectively. The 48.4 percent of the participants not eat breakfast. The 67.4 percentages of girls daily were consuming bread and cereals, 57.5 fruits and vegetables, 62.7 dairy products, and 27.7 meat and eggs. In addition, 36.3 percentages of these girls consumed sweets everyday as part of their diet. The nutritional knowledge of participating in diet was on the average and common source of information were counselors and teachers at school (36 percentages). The results of our study revealed that there was a significant relationship between variations in level of parental educational level and dietetic safety of offspring (p<0.05). Our conclusion is the interactive education and parental literacy especially is important regarding to the adolescent nutrition and health. Canadian Center of Science and Education 2013-09 2013-07-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4776835/ /pubmed/23985122 http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v5n5p202 Text en Copyright: © Canadian Center of Science and Education http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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title_sort dietary habits among adolescent girls and their association with parental educational levels
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4776835/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23985122
http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v5n5p202
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