Στάσεις που Προάγουν την Υγεία, τη Διατροφική Συμπεριφορά και Σχολική Επίδοση των Μαθητών

Abstract

Objectives: The subject of this cohort study is the in- vestigation of nutrition attitudes and perceptions of 225 children (97 boys, 128 girls), 11 years-old from fifth grade of the 12 Kos Primary schools, using questionnaires relat- ed to everyday life eating habits of their own, the level of physical activity, body image and the stress they experi- ence every day. Results: The average rating of the students’ evalua- tion survey was 4.02, which reveals a high school per- formance. The assessment was made by the teacher of each class at a scale (Likert) from 1-5. From the summa- tion of the answers about the attachment on Mediter- ranean Diet (KIDMED), the KIDMED score was 8.9 (rang- ing from 0 to 12), but recorded the children's negative tendency to regularly eat nuts and fish. Using the psy- chometric tool of self-esteem - PATEM II (answers that rated from 1 to 4, with higher values reflecting higher levels self-perception and self-esteem), it turned out that the studied children had a very good level of self- esteem. In addition, in the Predictive Anxiety Question- naire, with STAIC A-trait score=48.2 (total value ranging from 20 to 60), it was found that the studied children did not react with tension in difficult situations. Conclusions - Implications: The only statistically sig- nificant differences that have emerged, relate to corre- lation of the father's origin with pupils' school perfor- mance (p <0.023), as well as the correlation of pupils' school performance with those whom the children stay at home with (p <0.005). The most important finding we could draw from this study is that children of single parent families have much better performances than those of other families.