Eating habits of primary school children from the perspective of the practical nurse at the general practitioner for children and teenagers.

This bachelor's thesis deals with eating habits of children at primary-school age from practical nurse's point of view in general practitioner's office for children and youth. We set ourself three essential targets. The first target is: to chart the current situation of primary-school-aged children's eating habits. This target is focused on questionnaires containing basic information about their eating habits, water intake and physical activity. The second target is: to chart the current situation of primary-school-aged children's eating habits from practical nurse's point of view. We did a questionnaire survey with practical nurses in offices of general practitioners for children and youth. The last target highlights the practical nurse's function in children education of healthy diet. The theoretical part is focused on essential nutrients such as saccharides, fats, proteins, vitamins, trace elements, minerals, and water. You can find some childhood illnesses connected with eating in this part, where we concern ourselves with the problematics of overweight and obesity, eating disorder, food allergies, intolerances and absence of appetite. Furthermore, we concentrate on the practical nurse's role for general practitioner for children and youth, and we also deal with health support and healthy diet for primary-school-aged children. We are also interested in water intake and physical activity of these children, last but not least in practical nurse's education of nutrition. We evaluate the nutrition state of a child, percentile graphs, and principles for good nutrition in this part. The methods of quantitative and qualitative exploratory research were chosen in the practical part of the bachelor's thesis. The quantitative exploratory research was focused on primary-school-aged children. The questionnaires was filled in by children at a primary school. The exploratory company was created by 158 respondents. The questionnaires gave us detailed information about eating habits of the children and their regular eating. The eating habits of these children are miscellaneous and they are influenced in some measure by parents and others. Girls are more likely to eat regularly as emerged from the outcome. It also emerged that children consume more sweetened drinks with artificial colorings and they also like fast food. We focused the qualitative exploratory research on 8 practical nurses in general practitioner's offices for children and youth. The semi-structured interview was created by 19 questions. The interviews gave us detailed information about that, if children keep the principles for good nutrition and physical activity or not. It emerged that girls are more like to go to a doctor with the problem of overweight and obesity