Kostvanor som har betydelse för karies

: en jämförelse mellan elever vid yrkesinriktade och högskoleförberedande gymnasieprogram

Abstract

The aim of this study was to examine differences in dietary habits that have significance for the development of caries between youths at professional- respectively higher educational preparatory high school programs. A survey with 32 questions was conducted at two high schools in southern Sweden. The schools should have hade professional- and higher educational preparatory high school programs. Sixty students from each high school orientation would be included in the study. A total of 143 students >16 yearswere invited to participate from two schools. The result is based on 118 answered surveys, 60 from the professional- and 58 from the higher educational preparatory high school programs. Individuals that studied at the higher educational preparatory high school programs ate in greater numbers breakfast (p=0.009) and school lunch (p=0.003) daily and shopped more rarely at the school kiosk or nearby grocery store (p=0.000). They also drank coffee with sugar more rarely under school time, (p=0.006), drank juice more rarely at home (p=0.009) and ate potato chips or cheese doodles more rarely at home (p=0.044).The conclusion of this study is that there were differences between high school students at the professional- and higher educational preparatory high school programs with regards to breakfast- and school lunch habits. Few differences existed otherwise between both high school orientations regarding consumption of products that could have significance for the development caries.