INTRODUCTION

The results reflect the need of intervention in several areas and there is a project being elaborated.

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To diagnose the health behaviors of children in their school environment.

OBJECTIVES

RESULTS

CONCLUSION

The National Plan for 2012-2016 refers us to a priority objective: promote favorable health contexts throughout the life cycle, being the school environment a reference point to provide acquisition and promotion of healthy behaviors (WHO).

METHODS

A descriptive study was carried out in children from a school in the RAM attending on 5th and 6th school years. It was used a questionnaire adapted from the “Health behavior in school-aged children (WHO). The population was 270 students.

Most children are female (53%).

In what concerns the oral hygiene (graph 1 and 2)

30% of them do not brush their teeth or only brush them from time to time; 42% only changes the toothbrush when it is very much used, 52% do not use dental floss and 38% is followed by oral health consultation sometimes or never.

As regards the feeding (table1):

17% of the children does not take snack or only takes it sometimes, 35.3% drink soft drinks once or several times a day, 27.1% rarely or never eats raw vegetables, 22.2% rarely or never eats cooked vegetables, 28.1% does not eat fruit daily, 42% do not eat meat, fish or eggs daily 58.5% does not consume legumes, 31.4% daily consumes one or several times a day goodies 25.6% consumes pastry one or several times a day, 25.1% consume fried and salted food once or several times a day, 23.6% consume coffee once or several times a day. As for the sports 29.8% do not practice out of the school. In leisure-time 10.6% spends more than 5 hours a day watching television; 23.5% plays electronic games during two or more hours a day.

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Water 8,2 81,2 7,2 2,9 0.5 0

Soft Drinks 17,9 17,4 15,5 41,5 6,8 1

Raw vegetables 28 20,8 24,2 18,4 8,7 0

Fruits 43 29 17,4 9,7 1 0

Milk and

derivatives 41,5 32,4 18,8 6,3 0 1

Meat/fish or

eggs 24,6 32,4 31,9 10,1 0 1

Chocolates,

sweets 10,1 21,3 22,7 44 1,9 0

Pastry 6,3 19.3 20,2 51,6 2,4 0

Fried and salted 6,8 17,4 21,3 50,2 3,9 0,5

Coffee 4,3 19,3 13 28,5 34,8 0

Hamburgers, hot

dogs 5,3 7,7 15,9 63,3 7,2 0,5

Energy drinks 1 5,8 2,9 17,9 72,5 0

30% doesn't wash or only wash once in a

while

70% wash daily (2 a 3xday)

Graph 1-Oral hygiene-brushing

52% does not use

48% uses

Graph 2-Oral hygiene-use dental floss

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DIAGNOSE FOR BETTER INTERVENE: HEALTH BEHAVIORS OF CHILDREN

Otília Freitas (PhD); Clementina Morna (MD); Gregório Freitas (D); Isabel Silva (D); Helena Jardim (PhD); Nursing Course Students 2011-2015

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