Abstract
Regarding: Consumption of school meals provided by PNAE among Brazilian public school adolescents
Highlights
Dear editor The article “Consumption of school meals provided by PNAE among Brazilian public school adolescentes”[1], published in v. 47, n. 5 of this journal, evaluated adherence to school meal and associated factors among Brazilian adolescents, based on a national school-based study
Authors reported in the section “study variables”, one variable “Consumption of food offered in schools”, which is classified into (i) “absence of cafeteria”; (ii) “does not consume a snack from the school cafeteria”; (iii) “sometimes consumes a snack from the school cafeteria”; (iv) “consumes cafeteria snack almost every day” and; (v) “consumes cafeteria snack every day”
In a recent analysis of this database, students who were not provided with school meals were excluded from analysis and results of consumption of school meals up to twice a week was 64.2%, a value below that found by the authors, 82.8%
Summary
Dear editor The article “Consumption of school meals provided by PNAE among Brazilian public school adolescentes”[1], published in v. 47, n. 5 of this journal, evaluated adherence to school meal and associated factors among Brazilian adolescents, based on a national school-based study. Aceptado con modificaciones: 02 de agosto de 2021. Aceptado para ser publicado: 12 de agosto de 2021.
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