Mi SciELO
Servicios Personalizados
Revista
Articulo
Indicadores
- Citado por SciELO
- Accesos
Links relacionados
- Citado por Google
- Similares en SciELO
- Similares en Google
Compartir
Nutrición Hospitalaria
versión On-line ISSN 1699-5198versión impresa ISSN 0212-1611
Resumen
CARRILLO LOPEZ, Pedro José; GUILLAMON, Andrés Rosa; TARRAGA LOPEZ, Pedro Juan y GARCIA CANTO, Eliseo. Perception of loneliness, happiness, and health, and quality of diet. The moderator role of weight status. Nutr. Hosp. [online]. 2021, vol.38, n.3, pp.458-463. Epub 12-Jul-2021. ISSN 1699-5198. https://dx.doi.org/10.20960/nh.03525.
Aim:
to determine the relationship between perceived loneliness, happiness, and health, and quality of diet, observing the moderator role of weight status in elementary school children during the state of alarm decreed for COVID-19.
Methods:
a descriptive, cross-sectional study in a sample of 116 Spanish schoolchildren. The perception of loneliness, happiness, and health was assessed using three items of the Health Behavior in School-aged Children questionnaire. The quality of their Mediterranean diet was assessed using the Mediterranean Diet Quality Index quetsionnaire for children and adolescents. Anthropometric variables were collected through a self-reported questionnaire, and for the calculation of body mass index the Quetelet index (kg/m2) was used.
Results:
the descriptive analysis showed no differences in the perception of loneliness, happiness, or health, quality of diet, or anthropometric variables (p > 0.005), except for weight (p < 0.005), according to sex. The inferential analysis showed that higher values in quality of diet are correlated with higher scores in perceived happiness and health (p < 0.005). In turn, the linear regression test showed an association between quality of diet and perception of happiness after the model was adjusted for normal weight (R2 = 0.382; p < 0.005). Likewise, it showed a significant association between quality of diet and perception of health after the model was adjusted for overweight schoolchildren (R2 = 0.455; p < 0.005).
Conclusion:
the association between perceived health and happiness with quality of diet seems to be moderated by weight status.
Palabras clave : Lifestyle; Cognition; Health; Nutrition; Diet; Childhood.