scholarly journals Dietary diversity and food intake of urban preschool children in North‐Western Sri Lanka

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fathima Sirasa ◽  
Lana Mitchell ◽  
Neil Harris
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Food Intake ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Dietary Diversity ◽  
Urban Preschool ◽  
North Western

Nutritional Profile of Urban Preschool Children of Punjab

2003 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 149-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inderjit Singh ◽  
Kiran Grover
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Nutritional Profile ◽  
Urban Preschool

scholarly journals A six-week healthy eating intervention with family engagement improves food knowledge and preferences but not dietary diversity among urban preschool children in Sri Lanka

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Fathima Sirasa ◽  
Lana Mitchell ◽  
Aslan Azhar ◽  
Anoma Chandrasekara ◽  
Neil Harris
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Nutrition Education ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Child Nutrition ◽  
Dietary Diversity ◽  
Family Engagement ◽  
Food Preferences ◽  
Healthy Food ◽  
Food Knowledge ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of a multicomponent intervention (MCI) on children’s dietary diversity and its impact pathway components of children’s food knowledge and healthy food preferences. Design: A six-week cluster randomised controlled trial with a MCI consisting of child nutrition education plus family engagement, through parental nutrition education, meal preparation and tasting was compared with two groups: single component intervention (SCI) of child nutrition education, and control, conducted during February to July 2018. Preschool centres were randomly assigned to one of the three arms. Children’s food knowledge, healthy food preferences and dietary diversity scores were collected. Intervention effects were analysed using a pre-post analysis and a difference-in-difference model. Setting: Fourteen preschool centres in an urban area of Kurunegala, Sri Lanka Participants: Child-parent dyads of children aged 4-6 years. Final analyses included 306 (for food knowledge and preferences) and 258 (for dietary diversity) dyads. Results: MCI significantly influenced the impact pathways to children’s dietary diversity by increasing children’s food knowledge and healthy food preferences scores by 3.76 and 2.79 (P<0.001) respectively, but not the dietary diversity score (P=0.603), compared to control arm. Relative to SCI, MCI significantly improved children’s food knowledge score by 1.10 (P<0.001), but no significant effects were noted for other outcome variables. Conclusion: Improved food knowledge and preferences require a positive food environment and time to develop into healthy eating behaviours. Research into dietary diversity should broaden to incorporate the contextual roles of the home and general food environments to more completely understand food choices of children.

scholarly journals Relationships between the Dietary Diversity Scores of Children and Mothers and the Anthropometric Statuses of Preschool Children

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-32
Author(s):  
Fatemeh Eyvazi ◽  
P Mirmiran ◽  
M Abdollahi ◽  
R Rasekhmagham ◽  
N Borumandnia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Dietary Diversity

Urban Preschool Children

1968 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-32
Author(s):  
Doris C. Ching
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Urban Preschool

scholarly journals Investigation of Dimensions of Social-Emotional Classroom Behavior and School Readiness for Low-Income Urban Preschool Children

2007 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Fantuzzo ◽  
Rebecca Bulotsky-Shearer ◽  
Paul A. McDermott ◽  
Christine McWayne ◽  
Douglas Frye ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
School Readiness ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Classroom Behavior ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Urban Preschool

Prevalence and factors associated with severe asthma among preschool children of rural Sri Lanka

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shashanka Indeevara Rajapakse Rajapakse Mudiyanselage ◽  
Lakmali Amarasiri ◽  
Duminda Yasaratne ◽  
Janith Warnasekara ◽  
Suneth Agampodi
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Severe Asthma ◽  
Factors Associated
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