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Assessing factors influencing adolescents' dietary behaviours in urban Ethiopia using participatory photography
- Source :
- Public Health Nutrition, 24(12), 3615-3623, Public Health Nutrition 24 (2021) 12, Public Health Nutrition
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Cambridge University Press, 2021.
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Abstract
- Objective:To assess factors influencing dietary behaviours of adolescents in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.Design:Using the qualitative participatory method Photovoice, participants received training on the basics of Photovoice and took photographs related to (un)healthy eating in their environment. Transcripts of individual interviews, focus group discussions and photographs were coded for thematic analysis.Setting:One private and one public school located in the same, central neighbourhood in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to explore how school populations of different socio-economic status experience the same neighbourhood environment.Participants:Twenty-six adolescents aged 14–19 years old, of which there were seventeen girls and nine boys.Results:Findings from the current study indicate that food safety concerns appear to be the major influencing factors for adolescents’ dietary choices. Unhealthy and unsafe foods appear to be widely available and/or affordable in adolescents’ neighbourhoods and almost half of the photographs taken by adolescents depicted poor hygiene conditions related to food vendors. Participants considered foods available in their environments as generally unsafe, calling for more packaged food.Conclusions:Concerns for food safety, hygiene and affordability are the dominating factors for adolescents’ food choices. These concerns, together with limited nutrition knowledge and preference for packaged foods, could make cheap, ultra-processed packaged foods more desirable.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Adolescent
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Medicine (miscellaneous)
Dietary behaviour
Themed Section: Maternal and child nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa
Adolescents
Young Adult
Hygiene
RA0421
Environmental health
Food choice
Photography
Photovoice
Humans
Neighbourhood (mathematics)
media_common
VLAG
Human Nutrition & Health
Global Nutrition
Wereldvoeding
Nutrition and Dietetics
business.industry
Humane Voeding & Gezondheid
digestive, oral, and skin physiology
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Feeding Behavior
Food safety
Focus group
Preference
Diet
Food environment
Africa
Fast Foods
Female
Ethiopia
Thematic analysis
Psychology
business
RA
Research Paper
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13689800
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Public Health Nutrition, 24(12), 3615-3623, Public Health Nutrition 24 (2021) 12, Public Health Nutrition
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a8129a10c11001209daf4bbbf15981e3