title: [Study on effects of eating behaviors intervention for 3-5 years old children in Beijing and Shanghai].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To improve the unhealthy eating behaviors in 3-5 years old children and enrich the nutrition knowledge of their parents by the multi-channel health education intervention, and evaluate the effects of intervention.
  
  
  METHODS
  By random multi-stage cluster sampling, 810 children (3-5 years old) and their parents were selected from Beijing and Shanghai respectively. The period of intervention was 6 months. Questionnaire surveys about children's eating behavior and the knowledge of their parents were conducted before and after the intervention.
  
  
  RESULTS
  After the intervention, the proportion of partial eclipse and drinking beverage declined from 44.5% and 70.4% to 35.5% and 31.7% respectively. The proportion of having regular meal time, fixed dining place, eating by oneself, fix quantify diet and concentrating on food elevate from 80.0%, 87.3%, 73.4%, 32.1% and 27.1% to 92.1%, 90.2%, 83.7%, 44.3% and 40.1%. The awareness about nutrition in parents increased and the attitude to the children's eating behaviors improved after the intervention.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The intervention has some effects on the improvement of the children' s unhealthy eating behaviors and their parents' nutrition knowledge and attitude.
authors.affiliation: National Institute for Nutrition and Food Safety, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100050, China.
authors.forename: LiLi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.forename: Hongmei
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Jianqiang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lai
authors.forename: Shurong
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zou
authors.forename: Wenlan
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Qingjun
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D002681:China; D002149:Energy Intake / Q000502:physiology; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008612:Menu Planning; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology*; D012494:Sampling Studies; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires