Abstract
In order to discover family conceptions and their difficulties with regard to healthy eating habits during the school day, a qualitative study framed in the phenomenological, exploratory, and explanatory perspective has been carried out to detect and describe the aspects and interrelationships that shape the study phenomenon. The researchers performed triangulation techniques and information analysis support with the Atlas-ti programme. As participants, the students’ parents belonging to public secondary education high schools in Huelva, and the capital and its province were included. The participants were intentionally chosen based on established selection and segmentation criteria. Four main categories were obtained from the triangulated analysis. Healthy breakfast, school snack, school cafeteria, and promotion of healthy food measures. Other subcategories were established within them. Families are well aware of the composition of a healthy breakfast, although this is often not translated into practice. Lack of time, comfort and market influence are the main challenges they encounter for their children to acquire healthy habits. The maintenance of healthy habits, their responsibility and control on behalf of the family, and promoting fruit consumption and healthy products from the part of the centre and its cafeteria were highlighted as improvement proposals.
Highlights
Regular physical activity (PA) and an adequate diet are essential to improve health-related quality of life [1].Approximately four out of ten young Spaniards are exposed, from a very early age, to cardiovascular risk factors, with negative short/long-term effects, which are potentially modifiable [2].From very early stages, the child acquires certain eating habits within its family and social nucleus [3]
Some studies evidence that infant and adolescent diet during the school day is characterised by the elimination of breakfast or an insufficient intake, supplemented with products which are not recommended in a healthy diet, and many products being purchased at the school cafeteria [6,7,8]
Families are well aware of the composition of a Healthy Breakfast (HB), it is not reflected in actual practice
Summary
Regular physical activity (PA) and an adequate diet are essential to improve health-related quality of life [1].Approximately four out of ten young Spaniards are exposed, from a very early age, to cardiovascular risk factors, with negative short/long-term effects, which are potentially modifiable [2].From very early stages, the child acquires certain eating habits within its family and social nucleus [3]. Regular physical activity (PA) and an adequate diet are essential to improve health-related quality of life [1]. Four out of ten young Spaniards are exposed, from a very early age, to cardiovascular risk factors, with negative short/long-term effects, which are potentially modifiable [2]. The child acquires certain eating habits within its family and social nucleus [3]. Strategies for acquiring healthy habits and modifying harmful habits at this age range are essential to improve health in the adolescent population and in the future adult population [4,5]. Some studies evidence that infant and adolescent diet during the school day is characterised by the elimination of breakfast or an insufficient intake, supplemented with products which are not recommended in a healthy diet, and many products being purchased at the school cafeteria [6,7,8].
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