Finnish Children Healthy Eating Index (FCHEI) and its associations with family and child characteristics in pre-school children

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2519-2527

  Kyttälä, Pipsa ^a,b   Erkkola, Maijaliisa ^c   Lehtinen Jacks, Susanna ^a,b,d   Ovaskainen, Marja Leena ^b   Uusitalo, Liisa ^b   Veijola, Riitta ^e   Simell, Olli ^f   Knip, Mikael ^c,g   Virtanen, Suvi Mirjami ^a,b,d,g  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d PIRKANMAA HOSPITAL DISTRICT   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^g TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Children; Diet; Healthy eating index; Sociodemographic characteristics

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; FATTY ACID; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID; VITAMIN D;

ANALYSIS; CALORIC INTAKE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIETARY FIBER; FAMILY SIZE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET RECORDS; DIETARY FIBER; ENERGY INTAKE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FATTY ACIDS; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN E;

EID: 84910647680     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980013002772     Document Type: Article

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