Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The global prevalence of childhood obesity has surged to alarming levels, presenting a critical health issue. In order to promote a healthy lifestyle, evaluating the nutritional knowledge of children becomes imperative. We conducted our study aiming to assess the levels of dietary awareness in a sample of Tunisian children aged 9 to 11 years.Methods: We conducted a multicenter cross-sectional study from December 2021 to June 2022, at the Na...

Introduction: The inequity in energy balance is the most common cause of obesity throughout adolescence. Thus, evaluating nutritional knowledge is crucial for effective planning of targeted preventive interventions, by identifying specific areas that require improvement. Our study was undertaken in order to assess the levels of dietary awareness in a sample of Tunisian adolescents aged 12 to 15 years.Methods: It was a multicenter cross-sectional study in...

Introduction: Unhealthy eating behaviors are common in children. Therefore, assessing children nutritional knowledge is crucial. The QuesCA, a validated French tool, serves this purpose. Our study aimed to develop and validate an Arabic version of QuesCA.Methods: We conducted a multicenter cross-sectional study from December 2021 to June 2022. Our study was conducted at the National Center for School and University Medicine in Tunis and five randomly sel...