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[Assessment of nutritional risk among in-school adolescents from Cantabria]
P M De-Rufino Rivas1, O Antolín Guerra2, I Casuso Ruiz2
1Seminario "Promoción de hábitos saludables en adolescentes desde el ámbito educativo". CEP Santander. Dpto. Ciencias Médicas y Quirúrgicas. Área de Pediatría. Universidad de Cantabria.. derufinorivas@unican.es.
Objective:
To analyse nutritional risk, by age and sex, among primary and secondary education adolescents from Cantabria.
Methodology:
a cross-sectional study was carried out, analysing a sample of 1101 adolescents: 568 (51.6%) were men and 533 (48.4%) were women, aged 12 to 17, attending 16 different primary and secondary education centres in Cantabria, by means of a Krece Plus questionnaire.
Results:
A high percentage of adolescents with a high nutritional risk (35%) can be observed. Men show a high nutritional risk slightly higher than women (37.8% male vs 32.1% female). Moreover, the high nutritional risk experiences a notable increase as young people get older. Significant statistical differences can be seen both in male and female groups, and as a global group. In all three cases, the nutritional risk distribution in the youngest group is very similar (35.2-35.8% in male, 27.9-29.7% in female, 31.7-32.7% in the global group); whereas in elder adolescents, those values are practically doubled (57.1% in male, 69.0% in female, y 62.2% in the global group).
Conclusions:
Results are alarming mainly given the high percentage of adolescents with a high nutritional risk. Men and older adolescents are the groups in which high nutritional risk is more evident.
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