Study on breakfast consumption of children aged from 6-17 in China in 2010-2012

• Published in: Zhōnghuá yùfáng-yīxué zázhì Vol. 51; no. 6; p. 523
• Main Authors: Li, L, Yang, T T, Xu, P P, Cao, W, Gan, Q, Hu, X Q, Zhang, Q
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Chinese
• Published: China 06.06.2017
• Subjects: Adolescent; Breakfast; Child; China; Diet Surveys; Feeding Behavior; Female; Humans; Male; Nutritional Status; Schools; Surveys and Questionnaires; Breakfast; Cross-sectional studies; Dining out; Child; Food habits
• ISSN: 0253-9624
• DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0253-9624.2017.06.013

To investigate breakfast status and influencing factors among children aged 6-17 in China in 2010-2012. Data were collected from China National Nutrition and Health Surveillance in 2010-2012. By using multi-stage stratified sampling and population proportional stratified random sampling method, the research objects were 29 393 children, who aged 6 to 17 y from 150 sites in 31 provinces in mainland China. The information of breakfast frequency and the numbers of breakfast dinning out (in restaurant and at schools) in the past week with seven days were collected by questionnaire; and compared by different ages, genders and areas. During the past week, 91.1% (26 776/29 393) of the children aged 6 to 17 y had their breakfast daily, and 94.6% (13 457/14 221) of children aged 6 to 11 y was higher than 87.8% (13 319/15 172) of children aged 12 to 17 y, the highest proportion of the children never eat breakfast (0 time in the past week) found in poor rural areas was 3.6% (189/5 261), the ratio of big cities, small-me