scholarly journals Patterns of Avoiding Nutrition Mistakes in Metropolitan Adolescents Are Associated with Sex, Nutrition Knowledge, Physical Activity, and Family Environment

Nutrients ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 433
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Drywień ◽  
Magdalena Górnicka ◽  
Stanisław Kulik ◽  
Krzysztof Górnicki
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Family Environment ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Nutrition Knowledge ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Relationship

A comprehensive approach to the identification of the relationship between behaviors limiting nutrition mistakes, nutrition knowledge, and physical activity in the context of the family environment has not yet been widely explored. We aim to identify patterns of avoiding nutrition mistakes in high school students from Warsaw, Poland, and to assess their associations with nutrition knowledge (NK), physical activity (PA), body mass index (BMI), demographic, and family environment characteristics. A cross-sectional study involving 616 high school students, aged 16–19, was conducted. The data were collected by distributing questionnaires. The k-means method was used for cluster analysis, and logistic regression was used to assess the adherence to identified patterns. We identified three patterns: Prudent Ones (45%), Inconsequent (39%), and Rebels (16%). About 70% of adolescents had insufficient NK. The adherence to the Rebels pattern was lower by 85 % in girls, by 68% in students with younger siblings, and was about 4.0-times higher in children of mothers with primary education, 2.4 times higher in students with insufficient NK, and 1.9-times higher in students living in a family with more than 4 persons. The groups of adolescents with feature characteristics of the Rebels and Inconsequent are possible targets for intervention and require further in-depth research to explain their lack of attempts to avoid nutrition mistakes. The results clearly indicate the necessity of including metropolitan teenage boys in effective nutritional education for the rationalization of their dietary behavior.

scholarly journals Conditions of the Implementation of Selected Early Prevention Behaviours by High School Students from Radom

2016 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-52
Author(s):  
Jolanta Mogiła-Lisowska ◽  
Beata Bukowska
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Family Environment ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Well Being ◽  
School Students ◽  
Minimal Impact ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
The Family

AbstractThe specific type of human activities that aim to maintain full health by maintaining biological, psychological and social comfort indicate the need to adopt a holistic perspective in any analysis of determinants of pro-health behaviour. When analysing the aetiology of somatic diseases, it is important to take into account biological and mental well-being as well as the connections between needs, interests and lifestyle decisions and their consequences. One of the measures used to reduce the risk of a progressive lack of immunity to non-infectious diseases is prevention, understood as actions aimed at preventing diseases or other adverse health phenomena by controlling their causes and risk factors. An important component of prevention programmes is preventing the occurrence of negative social behaviour patterns that contribute to the increased risk of diseases. Three basic components of a healthy lifestyle – regular physical activity, proper nutrition and sufficient rest and relaxation (stress management) – justify the importance of practising healthy habits from an early age. The role of promoting pro-health behaviours among children and adolescents is of particular importance in the context of increasingly sedentary lifestyles, obesity and weight problems.The aim of this study is to analyse the determinants of physical activity and a balanced diet in the lifestyle of high school students in Radom aged 16-19. The study was conducted in 2013 at VII Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński High School in Radom and involved 140 students. The results of the study indicate that only one-third of respondents fulfilled the requirements for minimal physical activity for their subjective and objective needs of this phase of ontogenetic development, such as being in the company of their peers, spending time in open air and taking care of their physical fitness. Unfortunately, the majority of the parents of the surveyed high school students, who were at the time about 40 years old, did not engage in any systematic physical activity. In other words, the family environment of the studied young people did not promote patterns of physical activity. Similarly, healthy nutrition in the study group was lacking. Both the boys and girls ate around five meals a day, but many respondents snacked between meals on sweets and crisps. The majority of students drank water. The vast majority of them ate their meals at home, ensuring that their meals were freshly prepared and not pre-cooked.Although school children prefer to spend time with their peers, the family is still a point of reference in terms of values and ways of spending free time. The authors of this paper must take into account the minimal impact of the family on choices regarding physical activity. The studied group of high school students demonstrated a lack of preventive care for their health and did not have a well-established systematic approach to physical activity and healthy eating habits.

scholarly journals Health Behaviour of Adolescents: A Study on High School Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Mizanur Rahman
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Peer Groups ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Family

Adolescence is the most crucial stage of human life, and puberty is its beginning. Adolescents duringpuberty go through several biological and socio-psychological changes. They encounter various healthhazards, risks, and, sometimes, suffer from many physical and mental upsets, disarrays, and problemsthat shape their health behaviors in the future. This paper focuses on the exploration of health behaviorsof high-school-going adolescents and how they adapt to changes occurred during adolescence. In orderto elicit their health status and health behaviors, a cross-sectional study comprised of a sample of 160high-school-going boys and girls aged from 12 to 16 years was conducted in four schools under fourunions of four districts in Bangladesh. Significant findings show that high-school-going adolescents gothrough a series of physical, mental, and emotional changes in adolescence. Many have the knowledgeand are aware of these changes and contemporaneous health problems, but some are not and get fears.While their health behaviors depend on how they perceive their health and whom they share with andreceive suggestions. In most cases, girls first inform their mother or sisters or grannies; boys inform theirfriends and peer groups but share a little to their parents and seniors in the family. In both cases, theytend to hide their problems and seldom seeks healthcare from qualified healers. This study concludes thatmeasures like health education and knowledge of puberty should exactly be provided to help them growup smoothly throughout their future life.

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