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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Adolescent Parents on Free Sugar and Influencing Factors about Recognition

Physiological problems caused by excessive intake of free sugar have been concerning important public health issues, especially the impact on adolescents. The World Health Organization (WHO) strongly recommends controlling daily sugar intake in order to reduce the stress caused by high sugar uptake....

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Autores principales: Tang, Qiong, Lin, Qian, Yang, Qiping, Sun, Minghui, Liu, Hanmei, Yang, Lina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7311966/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32512927
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17114003
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author Tang, Qiong
Lin, Qian
Yang, Qiping
Sun, Minghui
Liu, Hanmei
Yang, Lina
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description Physiological problems caused by excessive intake of free sugar have been concerning important public health issues, especially the impact on adolescents. The World Health Organization (WHO) strongly recommends controlling daily sugar intake in order to reduce the stress caused by high sugar uptake. Finding out the factors that affect adolescents’ sugar intake will help further interventions to control the intake of sugar. Therefore, we conducted a cross-sectional study among 10 middle schools in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province. Two classes of the first and second grades were randomly selected from each school, and their parents in these classes participated in the survey. Questionnaires were used to access the status of adolescent parents’ knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) towards free sugar. Out of 1136 valid participants, 70.4% of respondents were female with the mean (Standard Deviation) age of 41.76 (±5.27) years. They had a good attitude but relatively poor knowledge and behavior towards free sugar. Binary logistic regression analysis found that parents whose gender is female, with a high education level and a girl as their child, hold a high level of free sugar recognition. These findings could help free sugar control interventions for adolescents in the future.
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spelling pubmed-73119662020-06-25 Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Adolescent Parents on Free Sugar and Influencing Factors about Recognition Tang, Qiong Lin, Qian Yang, Qiping Sun, Minghui Liu, Hanmei Yang, Lina Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Physiological problems caused by excessive intake of free sugar have been concerning important public health issues, especially the impact on adolescents. The World Health Organization (WHO) strongly recommends controlling daily sugar intake in order to reduce the stress caused by high sugar uptake. Finding out the factors that affect adolescents’ sugar intake will help further interventions to control the intake of sugar. Therefore, we conducted a cross-sectional study among 10 middle schools in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province. Two classes of the first and second grades were randomly selected from each school, and their parents in these classes participated in the survey. Questionnaires were used to access the status of adolescent parents’ knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) towards free sugar. Out of 1136 valid participants, 70.4% of respondents were female with the mean (Standard Deviation) age of 41.76 (±5.27) years. They had a good attitude but relatively poor knowledge and behavior towards free sugar. Binary logistic regression analysis found that parents whose gender is female, with a high education level and a girl as their child, hold a high level of free sugar recognition. These findings could help free sugar control interventions for adolescents in the future. MDPI 2020-06-04 2020-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7311966/ /pubmed/32512927 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17114003 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7311966/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32512927
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17114003
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