Abstract
Consumption of school meals provided by PNAE among brazilian public school adolescents
Highlights
Adolescence is a period of intense changes, mainly biological and psychological, and, due to accelerated growth, there is an increase in the energy and nutrient needs of adolescents[1,2]
In view of the potential of the food offered by PNAE to influence school performance, student health and the promotion of adequate and healthy eating habits, the present study aims to assess adherence to school food offered by PNAE and the associated factors among Brazilian adolescents
In this cross-sectional study of Brazilian adolescents, 17.2% regularly consumed school meals offered by the PNAE, and the factors associated with greater adherence were: male adolescents that were in the medium or low socioeconomic score categories; or female adolescent who were black-skinned, brown-skinned, yellow-skinned, or indigenous-skinned, aged 16 and 17 years old, who worked and had a medium or low socioeconomic score
Summary
Adolescence is a period of intense changes, mainly biological and psychological, and, due to accelerated growth, there is an increase in the energy and nutrient needs of adolescents[1,2]. In Brazil, the National School Food Program (Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar - PNAE) offers healthy food and provides nutrition education to all students from federal, state, municipal and district public schools, helping to develop healthy eating habits and encouraging the consumption of healthy and adequate food[10]. Despite the fact that PNAE is available to all students in the public school system[10,11], previous studies have found low adherence to the foods offered by the program among adolescents, ranging from 20 to 60%12,13,14,15,16 This low adherence is related to social and demographic factors, such as the student’s age and sex, per capita family income, nutritional status and parental education[13,14,15]. In view of the potential of the food offered by PNAE to influence school performance, student health and the promotion of adequate and healthy eating habits, the present study aims to assess adherence to school food offered by PNAE and the associated factors among Brazilian adolescents
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