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Concept Development and Use of an Automated Food Intake and Eating Behavior Assessment Method
Published on: February 19, 2021
[Association between eating behavior and nutritional status in Chilean preschoolers]
Fabiola Paz Henríquez Konings1, Fabian Ignacio Lanuza Rilling, Luis Humberto Bustos Medina
1Universidad de La Frontera.. fabiola.henriquez@ufrontera.cl.
Abstract:
INTRODUCCIÓN: the eating behavior is associated with the nutritional status at early ages. However, in Chile there are still no studies that evaluate this relationship in the preschool stage.
Objective:
to associate the nutritional status and eating behavior of Chilean preschoolers.
Methods:
cross-sectional study in 247 preschoolers (2-4 years) from the region of Araucanía, Chile. The nutritional status was evaluated through the anthropometric index weight/height and waist circumference/age. The Child Eating Behavior Questionnaire (CEBQ) survey was applied to mothers to assess their children's eating.
Results:
one hundred and thirty were men and 117 were women with an overweight/obese percentage of 58.6% and 49.6%, respectively. Eating behavior scores pro-intake (food approach) have a positive and significant association with nutritional status) and in the food responsiveness sub-scale in the total sample. Regarding the anti-intake score (food avoidant), an inverse trend with nutritional status is shown; however, there is a negative and significant association in the satiety responsiveness scale and slowness in eating.
Conclusion:
the pro-intake eating behavior is directly associated with nutritional status, and anti-ingest score is inversely related only to certain sub-scales.
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