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- Title
Ansiedad en presencia de alimentos en escolares de Baja California Sur.
- Authors
Álvarez-Villaseñor, Andrea Socorro; Flores-Osuna, Uriel; Torres-Barrera, Juana Sara; Flores-Torrecillas, Raquel; Fuentes Orozco, Clotilde; Reyes Aguirre, Laura Lizeth; Barbosa Camacho, Francisco José; Chávez Tostado, Mariana; Guzmán Ramírez, Bertha Georgina; González Ojeda, Alejandro
- Abstract
<bold>Introduction: </bold>Introduction: many obese children will be obese adults unless they adopt and maintain healthy eating and physical activity patterns. Anxiety has been described in overweight and obese children with dysfunctional family environments, with impact on their quality of life; risk for some eating disorder was also found. Objective: to identify anxiety in the presence of food in schoolchildren in Baja California Sur. Material and methods: a cross-sectional study in 406 schoolchildren, from 8 to 13 years of age, was performed: nutritional status calculation, measurements of attitudes towards food (cut-off point > 20), socioeconomic level, type of family, and intake of junk food were collected. Descriptive statistics and association measures were performed using Student's t-test and the chi-squared test. Parents provided their informed consent, and children provided their assent. Results: a total of 406 schoolchildren were evaluated, with ages of 10.4 ± 1.2. Of these, 53 % had healthy weight, 44 % had overweight or obesity, and 3 % were underweight. Functional families predominated at 67 %. A middle socioeconomic level was found in 64 %. In all, 94 % consumed junk food. There is an association between anxiety in the presence of food and socioeconomic status, and anxiety in the presence of food and nutritional status (p = 0.01). In overweight and obese schoolchildren no association was found between study variables. There is anxiety in the presence of food in 40 % of the sample due to external factors, in 5 % because of tiredness or boredom, in 11 % because of negative feelings. Conclusion: there is an association between anxiety, socioeconomic status, and nutritional status. Anxiety in the presence of food occurred in 54.7 % of cases.
- Subjects
MEXICO; CHILDHOOD obesity; CROSS-sectional method; FOOD; ANXIETY; DISEASE complications
- Publication
Nutrición Hospitalaria, 2020, Vol 37, Issue 4, p692
- ISSN
0212-1611
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.20960/nh.03044