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The Situation Regarding School Canteen and Physical Activities among a Sample of Primary and Preparatory School Children in Egypt

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Clinical trials and cohort studies, with an emphasis on methods for assessing dietary exposures

Abstract

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) come via (unhealthy diet, /physical inactivity, tobacco use and harmful use of alcohol); all increase the risk of dying from NCDs. Children consume approximately half of their total daily amount of energy at school. This work designed to get a baseline data on the condition with reference to school canteen and physical activities between primary and preparatory schools.The study was conducted among 1361 school children age (6 y- 13 y) randomly selected from schools in four governorates: Cairo, Qalyobia, Menofia and Giza. Two types of questionnaire were done during the study; which interview was conducted to the school children, and qualitative type (focus group discussion) for school children and teachers responsible for nutrition in the school. Results revealed that the majority of the sample used to buy from school canteens (1294). Food from canteen was Low nutritious value high energy. However, these recommendations were achieved by only (37.1%) of study sample, nearly two thirds (63.9%) of the sample didn't practice any physical activities, while 14% and 10.7% of them practice physical activity once and twice weekly respectively. One quarter of the sample (25.4%) stay in front of TV or computer less than 1 hour daily, and 58% of them stay 2 hours daily. Conclusion: The present study shows that low nutritious value high energy density food items represent the commonly consumed food brought from school canteens. The practice of physical activity is very little, and in case of practicing, it is practiced infrequently.

DOI

10.21608/bnni.2020.171139

Keywords

School, canteen, Physical activity, NCDs

Authors

First Name

Gihan

Last Name

Fouad

MiddleName

A

Affiliation

National Nutrition Institute, Cairo, Egypt

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City

Cairo

Orcid

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First Name

Salwa

Last Name

Salah

MiddleName

M

Affiliation

National Nutrition Institute, Cairo, Egypt

Email

-

City

Cairo

Orcid

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First Name

May

Last Name

Mettar

MiddleName

K

Affiliation

National Nutrition Institute, Cairo, Egypt

Email

-

City

Cairo

Orcid

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First Name

Hoda

Last Name

El Gezery

MiddleName

M

Affiliation

National Nutrition Institute, Cairo, Egypt

Email

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City

Cairo

Orcid

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First Name

Asmaa

Last Name

Mostafa

MiddleName

E

Affiliation

National Nutrition Institute, Cairo Egypt

Email

dr_asmaa707@yahoo.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

-

First Name

Asmaa

Last Name

Abed-El-Wahed

MiddleName

S

Affiliation

National Nutrition Institute, Cairo, Egypt

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City

Cairo

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Volume

55

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

23814

Issue Date

2020-06-01

Receive Date

2020-05-15

Publish Date

2020-06-01

Page Start

108

Page End

132

Print ISSN

1110-0974

Online ISSN

2537-0987

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BNNI_Volume 55_Issue 1_Pages 108-132.pdf

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https://bnni.journals.ekb.eg/article_171139.html

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Publication Title

Bulletin of the National Nutrition Institute of the Arab Republic of Egypt

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https://bnni.journals.ekb.eg/

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The Situation Regarding School Canteen and Physical Activities among a Sample of Primary and Preparatory School Children in Egypt

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22 Jan 2023