期刊名称：Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
印刷版ISSN：1232-1966
电子版ISSN：1898-2263
出版年度：2019
卷号：26
期号：3
页码：1-6
DOI：10.26444/aaem/105262
出版社：Institute of Agricultural Medicine in Lublin
摘要：Introduction and objective. Many studies have indicated numerous nutrition mistakes among school-aged children
and adolescents in both urban and rural environments. The aim of this study was to assess the nutritional habits of the
Polish population, consisting of 7,974 individuals aged 12–17, from rural and urban environments, as well as to identify
environmental variations of these habits and to verify the existing information on the incorrect nutrition of school-age
children and adolescents.
Materials and method. The research covered a group of 7,974 respondents – school-age adolescents with a similar age
structure (12–17 years). The study on subjects from secondary school grades 1 – 3 was conducted in randomly selected
schools from 2 random Polish provinces; 5 counties were randomly selected, followed by a choice of 2 communes: one rural
and one urban. The research technique was a self-designed survey questionnaire. The obtained results were subjected to
statistical analysis using the Pearson Chi 2 and V Cramer test.
Results. The research revealed environment-based differences in subjects’ nutrition. Breakfast was consumed daily by a
statistically significantly fewer subjects from the rural environment (36.31%) than from the urban areas (51.32%); second
breakfast was consumed by an insignificantly smaller proportion of respondents from the urban environment (40.00%) than
from the rural one (46.00%); dinner was eaten daily by 86.00% of urban subjects and 82.00% of rural respondents; afternoon
tea and supper were eaten rarely by respondents from both environments. The diet of respondents was dominated by
anti-health behaviours.
Conclusions. Most of the respondents displayed incorrect nutritional behaviours. Nutritional mistakes occurred among
respondents from both rural and urban environments, with the predominance of the rural areas.
关键词：nutrition; children and adolescents; rural environment; health behaviours; urban environment
