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0013/2015 - Healthy eating and difficulties to make it a reality: perceptions of parents/guardians of pre-school children
Alimentação saudável e dificuldades para torná-la uma realidade: percepções de pais/responsáveis por pré-escolares

Author:

• Isabel Cristina Bento - Bento, Isabel Cristina - Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Enfermagem aplicada - <evmepia@gmail.com>

Co-author(s):

• Juliana Maria de Melo Esteves - Esteves, Juliana Maria de Melo - Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Belo Horizonte/MG. Brasil - <juli-melo@hotmail.com>
• Thais Elias França - França, Thais Elias - 3Faculdade de Minas – FAMINAS, Nutrição - <thayseliasfranca@hotmail.com>

Thematic Area:

Alimentação, Nutrição e Saúde

Abstract:

This is a cross-sectional qualitative study to understand the perceptions of 77 guardians of preschool children enrolled in a Child Day Care Center in Belo Horizonte/MG, about what is a healthy diet and their difficulties to feed on healthy way. The instrument was a pretested semi-structured questionnaire containing guiding questions obtained through face to face interviews. For data analysis, it was used the technique of the Collective Subject Discourse, which allowed data organization of verbal nature. The guardians have shown a sense of what is a healthy diet, however theirs speeches show an inadequate feeding practices. They pointed as the main difficulties for a healthy diet, the financial resources, lack of time and eating habits. These three difficulties are the reason why some guardians do not believe they have a healthy diet. It was concluded that these guardians need to have a better diet, because their food practices influence their children’s food practices. These findings revealed the need for strategies to food and nutrition education to enable those guardians to recognize and have a healthy diet, as well as overcome barriers to obtain it.

Keywords:

Feeding Health Promotion Parents Preschool Child Day Care Centers

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Bento, Isabel Cristina, Esteves, Juliana Maria de Melo, França, Thais Elias. Healthy eating and difficulties to make it a reality: perceptions of parents/guardians of pre-school children. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2015/Apr). [Citado em 27/09/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/healthy-eating-and-difficulties-to-make-it-a-reality-perceptions-of-parentsguardians-of-preschool-children/15078



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