Eating behaviors of risk in students from 10 to 16 years of a private school, Chía, Colombia. Conductas Alimentarias de riesgo en estudiantes de 10 a 16 años de un colegio privado, Chía, Colombia.

Abstract

This descriptive cross-sectional study, it was proposed to identify food risk behaviour in a group of 10 to 16 year old students in a mixed private school, located in Chía, Cundinamarca. The sample was conformed by 68 students of both genders who conducted anthropometric (weight, height), nutritional assessment test child questionnaire of attitudes toward food (chEAT) and application of the scale of the body figure SFS validated in Colombia, to determine the perception of body shape. It found that 49% of the adolescents of both genders, have a (BMI) body mass index suitable for the age, 29% presents overweight and 15% risk for thinness. Size/age indicator in 82% of the population has a size suitable for their age. In relation to the testing chEAT, 13% of the population presented food risk behaviors, with a higher prevalence in women and in the age group of 11 to 13 years. Between these behaviors, prevailed: the preoccupation with thinness and weight (p = 0.05); fear of the consumption of foods that make you fat (p = 0.05) and the concern and the food control (p = 0.05) in as to the perception of the body shape was distortion of body image (48.4%) with greater incidence in the feminine gender. It is necessary to generate nutrition education that prevents the increase of such misconduct.