La perception du végétarisme chez les adolescents
Context. Vegetarianism is a behavior that is gaining popularity among adults in Canada but is poorly studied in adolescents. The consumption of vegetable proteins has shown several benefits on the environment and on multiple health factors. Objectives. The purpose of this study is to examine the perception that Quebec adolescents participating in Culinary Brigades workshops express with other young vegetarians and their general attitudes towards vegetarianism. On the other hand, a codification grid inspired by the literature and enhanced by the answers transmitted by the data corpus is also created. Methods. A qualitative and quantitative approach was selected using a self administered questionnaire which was distributed at two times in the 67 participating schools to the Culinary Brigades either pre- and post-workshop (beginning and end of the year). For the qualitative phase, in the pre-workshop, the young people had to answer the open question "For me, a vegetarian teenager is ...". For the post-workshop quantitative phase they were asked whether they agreed (yes) or disagreed (no) with a list of eleven statements on vegetarianism. The project received ethical approval from the Health Research Committee An inductive and deductive method was used to create the coding grid for analyzing qualitative data in the pre-workshop. Using the SPSS software, the quantitative data were analyzed and compared to observe the presence or absence of a statistical relationship. Results. In pre-workshop, the topic of food was the element of answer most mentioned by young people (62.3%, n = 810 elements of answers), followed, in order, motivations (27.9% , n = 363), social norms (21.1%, n = 274), health (17.4%, n = 226), and individual (1.9%, n = 25). The analysis of the response elements found that the perception of vegetarianism was generally good among young people using positive words to describe food, but was not mentioned by most young people (14%). In the post-workshop, young people generally had a positive view of vegetarianism by agreeing to several positive statements about this type of diet, for example, that vegetarian food is good for the environment, that it is not it's good for your health. Conclusion. The study suggests that the perception of vegetarianism among youth in this cohort is generally good. In addition, the answers show that the participants understand several factors related to vegetarianism, including motivations (ethical, environmental, religious ...), the nutritional aspect of this diet and taste.
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