Trine Pagh Pedersen

PhD project:

The PhD project is about meal habits among children and adolescents with focus on tracking and contextual factors. The first study is a tracking study and we examine whether meal habits in adolescence predicts meal habits in adult life. In the second study we examine how family-setting influence adolescents' breakfast habits. In the third study we investigate using a multilevel study, how the school's structural framework forms children and adolescents lunch habits. The PhD project uses data from three epidemiologic studies.

• The youth cohort, a longitudinal study of adolescents from 15 years to 27 years.
• Boost baseline intervention study from an intervention study among seventh grade pupils.
• The HBSC study 2010, the Danish contribution to the international research project Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) among 5th, 7th and 9 graders.

Interests:

• Meal habits and eating behaviours among children and adolescents
• Social epidemiology 
• Young people’s context and how it influence their health and well-being

National Institute of Public Health
University of Southern Denmark
Øster Farimagsgade 5A, 2nd floor
1353 Copenhagen K

Denmark