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- Title
Práticas e percepções de universitários sobre alimentação: estudo qualitativo utilizando grupos focais.
- Authors
Xavier Rossetti, Francini; da Silva, Marina Vieira
- Abstract
Values and attitudes aspects about feeding among young people are little known. The objective of this study was to evaluate students' practices and perceptions about feeding at a public university. The sample (n= 31) was composed of undergraduate students from 1st to 5th year. Data were obtained using a qualitative technique using the focus groups method (four groups were performed). The results were analyzed using the categorization procedure. With regard to access and availability to food were concerned, students cited the convenience, low price and variety of the university restaurant, but cited the monotony of flavors as a barrier to the choice of the place. The domicile is characterized as the environment able of modifying its eating behavior and, associated with commensality, promotes the consumption of processed and ultraprocessed foods. Among students who left home for study purposes, the inability to provide food at home makes it difficult to maintain adequate eating habits. The consumption of food "harmful to health" was associated with processed and ultraprocessed foods products. It is necessary to create an environment in which to adopt healthy and sustainable lifestyles in the university context, to promote quality of life among students and consequently, prevention of chronic noncommunicable diseases and obesity.
- Publication
Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional, 2018, Vol 25, Issue 3, p81
- ISSN
1808-8023
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.20396/san.v25i3.8652959