FREQUENCY OF MEALS CONSUMED BY BRAZILIAN ADOLESCENTS AND ASSOCIATED HABITS: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW.

Objective: To analyze the studies that identified the frequency of meals ingested by Brazilian adolescents and associated habits.

Data Sources: A systematic search was made in the databases and electronic databases: MEDLINE/PubMed, The Latin American and Caribbean Center of Information in Health Sciences (BIREME), Scopus, Web of Science and Embase, with articles published between January/2007 until December/2017, which addressed the evaluation of the frequency of meals performed by adolescents, considering or not associations with eating patterns and meal replacement.

Data Synthesis: 6,608 studies were obtained through the search and nine were included in this review, all of them with a cross-sectional design.