A Retrospective Study on the Relationship of Changes in Likes/Dislikes with Food Habits in 4- and 6-Year-Old Children

Autor: Setsuko Tsutie, Tomoko Osera, Misako Kobayashi, Nobutaka Kurihara
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety. 4:604-613
ISSN: 2347-5641
Popis: Objective: This is a retrospective cohort study to investigate children’s food habits, affecting changing their likes/dislikes, on the basis of questionnaires answered by the mothers of 222 children. Methods: The questionnaire data was analyzed on 4 years old children at the beginning of the first year of kindergarten and on the same children at the end of the second year, when they were 6 years old. The questionnaire included 18 questions regarding their children’s lifestyle, likes/dislikes, attitude toward foods and guardian’s food habits. The Kruskal Wallis test was performed to compare the ordered categorical outcomes among four groups of changes in likes/dislikes: “(+) to (−)” means that the children disliked some foods as 4 year olds, and that as 6 year olds they disliked no foods, “(+) to (+)”, “(−) to (+)”, and “(−) to (−)”. Results: In total, 71.0% results reported (+) to (+), 10.0% reported (+) to (−), 6.5% Original Research Article European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety, 4(4): 604-613, 2014 605 reported (−) to (+) and 12.5% reported (-) to (-). Among the four groups, “Respect for food” (p
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