Abstract
Objectives: The subject of this cohort study is the investigation of nutrition attitudes and perceptions of 225 children (97 boys, 128 girls), 11 years-old from fifth grade of the 12 Kos Primary schools, using questionnaires related to everyday life eating habits of their own, the level of physical activity, body image and the stress they experience every day.
Results: The average rating of the students’ evaluation survey was 4.02, which reveals a high school performance. The assessment was made by the teacher of each class at a scale (Likert) from 1-5. From the summation of the answers about the attachment on Mediterranean Diet (KIDMED), the KIDMED score was 8.9 (ranging from 0 to 12), but recorded the children’s negative tendency to regularly eat nuts and fish.
Using the psychometric tool of self-esteem – PATEM II (answers that rated from 1 to 4, with higher values reflecting higher levels self-perception and self-esteem), it turned out that the studied children had a very good level of self-esteem.
In addition, in the Predictive Anxiety Questionnaire, with STAIC Atrait score=48.2 (total value ranging from 20 to 60), it was found that the studied children did not react with tension in difficult situations.
Conclusions – Implications: The only statistically significant differences that have emerged, relate to correlation of the father’s origin with pupils’ school performance (p
