THE ROLE OF PARENTS İN THE ATTAİNMENT OF WATER OR LİQUİD CONSUMPTİON BEHAVİOR İN CHİLDREN

Abstract

İntroduction. Water is the most important source of life in our lives. Especially children are constantly tired of playing games and having fun. It is therefore expected that children will have more fluid consumption than adults. Aim of the study. The aim of this study is to help parents determine the extent to which they control their children's water or fluid consumption, whether they are with food or water loss prevention, and how to develop benefit, attitudes and behaviors in order to give their children water consumption behavior. Material and methods. In this study, the attitudes and behaviors of 591 parents of 100 children from almost every neighborhood living in Bitlis province center were investigated by a cross-sectional survey. The questionnaire consisted of two parts, the first part included questions about the parents' demographic structure and family structure, and the second part, questions about water and fluid consumption about 0-12 year old children. The questionnaire was applied and evaluated with the IBM SSPS Statistics 20® Packet Scheme for chi-square and frequency tests. A value of P <0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results. Mothers (54.2%) and fathers (45.8%) responded to the survey. The proportion of children consuming tea (69.9%), the ratio of children consuming water was 11.2%, the consumption of milk was 14.8% and the consumption of other liquid varieties was 4.1%. It has been determined that 64% of the children take and consume at least half a liter of water when going to the school. It was understood that 51.9% of the children drink 5 cups of water and 24.8% drink 3 glasses of water a day. Conclusions. The relationship between parents' educational status and how the child consumed the juice at breakfast, how to take the juice when going to the school and drink water, how the juice the child chose, how safe the preferred juice was and how to help the juice consumption was significant (P <0.05 ).