[Food choice and place of eating for Quebec children].
OBJECTIVE
The relationships are explored between food choices of school-aged children and eating in the bedroom, while watching television, or in front of the computer.


METHODS
Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire that 534 subjects completed in class. Participants were ten- to 12-year-old children from Québec.


RESULTS
Significant positive correlations were found between the act of eating in the bedroom and eating in front of the television or the computer (p<0.05). Significant positive correlations were also found between eating in the bedroom, or eating in front of the television or the computer, and the consumption of low-density food, foods high in sugar and fat, and foods low in fibre (p<0.05). Data also revealed more negative food habits for boys than for girls (p<0.05).


CONCLUSIONS
Because of the prevalence of childhood obesity, these findings support the need to document children's food consumption patterns and gender differences.
Marquis
Marie
M
Université de Montréal.
Wright
Jessica
J
D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D002664:Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002755:Choice Behavior; D004032:Diet / Q000592:standards*; D004435:Eating; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D011792:Quebec; D017678:Sex Distribution; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013690:Television; D013997:Time Factors