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Italian Public School: A Pilot Study about Disorders Related to Nutrition and their Management

DPMSC School of Medicine, University of Udine, Udine, ITALY

Address reprint requests to: Rosanna Quattrin, Chair of Hygiene, Dipartimento di patologia e medicina sperimentale e clinica, University of Udine, Via Colugna 50, 33100 Udine, ITALY. E-mail: quattrin.rosanna{at}auod.sanita.fvg.it

Objective: To know how Italian nursery and primary schools survey and manage children with food-related problems.

Design: A pilot study during the period March-May 2005, filling out a questionnaire.

Setting: All nursery and primary schools in a Northern Italian region (Friuli Venezia Giulia).

Subjects: There were 479 eligible schools

Results: Global response rate was of 29.6%. In 77.5% (110/142) of the schools there were children with food-related pathologies. Programs about nutrition were carried out by 44.4% (63/142) of the schools in the previous two years; 9.5% (6/63) dealt with food-related pathologies and 57.1% (36/63) required the intervention of outside experts to have these projects realized. In the same period training courses about nutrition for teachers were conducted in 9.2% (13/142) of the schools.

Conclusions: Data provide a first overview of the situation in Italy on food-related topics in children attending nursery and primary schools. Therefore many programs could not rely on funds to be developed, but had to use internal resources of the school.

Key words: food-related diseases, public schools, nutrition topic