This thesis includes two publications originating from the Leipzig School Nutrition Study.
Data from the first publication show associations of weekday eating habits with the prevalence of overweight in 4th- and 6th- to 8th-grade students in a city of about 600,000 inhabitants in Germany. Unsteady breakfast habits, skipping breakfast, or not having lunch during the school day were positively associated with the prevalence of being overweight. The associations with having breakfast persist after controlling for known risk factors like parental overweight and SES [28]. Having two breakfasts resulted in even stronger associations. The finding that children with a low SES skipped breakfast more often confirms our hypothesis as well as previous research.
In the second paper, we investigated predictors of school lunch participation and reasons for non-participation, i.e., possible intervention targets in 1215 German schoolchildren. The main finding of this study is that school lunch participation is primarily associated with family factors (migration background, parental overweight, SES, families with many children). The most stated reasons for nonparticipation were school-and lunch-related factors like taste, time constraints, and pricing. For children, time constraints were as important as pricing whereas parents reported pricing was as crucial a reason as the taste for nonparticipation. In line, one-third of the parents stated their child would be more likely to participate if school lunch was free of charge. Therefore, our data stress school-and lunch-related factors as an important opportunity to foster school lunch utilization.:Contents
Abbreviations ............................................................................................................ 1
Introduction ............................................................................................................... 2
Background............................................................................................................ 2
School meals ......................................................................................................... 3
Relevance of the topic ........................................................................................... 5
Leipzig School Nutrition study................................................................................ 7
Research questions ............................................................................................... 9
Publications - manuscripts ...................................................................................... 10
Summary ................................................................................................................ 12
References ............................................................................................................. 18
Spezifizierung des eigenen wissenschaftlichen Beitrags ........................................... I
Selbstständigkeitserklärung ...................................................................................... V
Lebenslauf ............................................................................................................... VI
Personalien ........................................................................................................... VI
Akademischer Werdegang:................................................................................... VI
Berufliche Tätigkeit: .............................................................................................. VI
Publikationen .......................................................................................................... VII
Danksagung ........................................................................................................... VIII
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:82048 |
| Date | 09 November 2022 |
| Creators | Sobek, Carolin |
| Contributors | Universität Leipzig |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/updatedVersion, doc-type:doctoralThesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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