Objective:

To describe beverages consumption practices, and school drinking fountains utilization among secondary school’s students from National School Drinking Fountains Program (PNBE, Spanish acronym).

Materials and methods:

Descriptive cross-sectional study with mixed methods in public secondary schools (morning and afternoon shifts). We estimated plain water and sugar sweetened beverages consumption, school drinking fountains utilization, and barriers-facilitators for plain water consumption.

Results:

We interviewed 617 students (11 to 16 y); 51.5% were men. The mean of plain water intake (568.9 ml; CI95%: 470.7-667.1), and sugar sweetened beverages (143.4 ml; CI95%:124.0-162.7) was similar among women and men. In the morning shift women had a lower probability of utilizing the school drinking fountains in comparison with men (p=0.032). Men and women have mistrust water that comes from school drinking fountains.

Conclusions:

Integral actions are necessary to favor plain water consumption, and utilization of school drinking fountains at PNBE secondary schools.

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