Author:

• Diôgo Vale - Vale, D. - <diogo.vale@escolar.ifrn.edu.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2636-4956

Co-author(s):

• Clélia de Oliveira Lyra - Lyra,C.O. - <clelia_lyra@yahoo.com.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1474-3812
• Thais Teixeira dos Santos - Santos, T.T - <thaisteixeiras@hotmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2568-2007
• Camila Valdejane Silva de Souza - Souza, C.V.S - <camila.valdejane@yahoo.com.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7146-3406
• Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli - Roncalli, A.G. - <roncalli@terra.com.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5311-697X

Abstract:

The objective was to evaluate the adherence to school feeding by Brazilian adolescents considering individual and school context determinants. 10,262 adolescentspublic schools of the Brazilian National Survey of School Health 2015 (PeNSE 2015) were evaluated. Multilevel regression was used to estimate the effect of variables of the individual context and the school environment on the occurrence of low adherence to school feeding by adolescents. The prevalence of this low adherence (consumption of school meals ≤ 2 days/week) was 64.2% in this group. The explanatory model showed less adherence to this practice among female adolescents (PR = 1.09; CI: 1.03-1.14), among those aged 15 years or older (PR = 1.08; CI: 1.02-1.14), who had regular consumption of soft drinks (PR = 1.09; CI: 1.03-1.15), who did not regularly have lunch and dinner with parents and guardians (PR = 1.08; CI: 1.02-1.14), and who lived in households with less than 4 people (PR = 1.07; CI: 1.02-1.13). Concerning the school environment, to study in schools with more than 1,000 students (PR = 1.22; CI: 1.12-1.33) and with the presence of a cafeteria (PR = 1.15; CI: 1.08-1.22) determined low adherence. The results demonstrate an important effect of the school context in determining the consumption of school meals by adolescents.

Keywords:

School Feeding; Food Consumption; Eating habits; Teenager

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