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| Author(s): |
Leme, Ana Carolina Barco
[1, 2, 3]
;
Fisberg, Regina Mara
[1]
;
Baranowski, Tom
[4]
;
Nicklas, Theresa
[4]
;
Callender, Chishinga S.
[4]
;
Kasam, Annie
[4]
;
Philippi, Sonia Tucunduva
[1]
;
Thompson, Debbe
[4]
Total Authors: 8
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| Affiliation: | [1] Univ Sao Paulo, Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Nutr, Pinheiros, SP - Brazil
[2] Univ Guelph, Dept Family Relat & Appl Nutr, Guelph, ON - Canada
[3] PENSI Inst, Excellence Nutr & Feeding Difficulties Ctr, BR-01228200 Sao Paulo - Brazil
[4] ARS, Dept Pediat, USDA, Childrens Nutr Res Ctr, Baylor Coll Med, Houston, TX - USA
Total Affiliations: 4
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | JOURNAL OF NUTRITION EDUCATION AND BEHAVIOR; v. 53, n. 2, p. 110-119, FEB 2021. |
| Web of Science Citations: | 0 |
| Abstract | |
Objective: To understand how adolescents define related nutrition terms and use food groups to classify commonly consumed foods into the MyPlate food groups. Design: Qualitative study with telephone interviews. Setting: Houston metropolitan area in Texas. Participants: A convenience sample of 21 adolescents from a volunteer database of the research center. Main Outcomes Measures: Sociodemographic questions were asked before semiquantitative structured interviews. The interview focused on understanding how adolescents defined health, other nutrition terms, and food groups, and how to use the MyPlate icon in categorizing commonly consumed foods into groups. Analysis: Hybrid thematic approach with inductive and deductive analyses. Results: Adolescents defined being healthy in terms of wellness-type behaviors (eg, diet, physical activity, and sleep). They perceived clear differences between terms such as healthy vs unhealthy food but struggled to define others (eg, energy-dense foods and processed foods). Mixed dishes, hard candies, chocolate chip cookies, and potato chips were the most difficult foods for the adolescents to classify into the MyPlate food groups, whereas apple, lettuce, and milk were easily classified. Conclusions and Implications: Food guidance systems, public health policies, and behavioral nutrition programs targeting adolescents might use health and nutrition terms and prescriptive food categories more clearly understood by adolescents. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 15/20852-7 - "Healthy Habits, Healthy Girls - Brazil": Randomized control trial with adolescent girls attending public schools of the city of São Paulo |
| Grantee: | Ana Carolina Barco Leme |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral |
| FAPESP's process: | 17/23115-9 - Consumption of snacks and nutritional status in adolescents and young adults living in the city of São Paulo |
| Grantee: | Tatiane dos Santos Lopes |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation |