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Neighbourhood food typologies, fast food outlet visitation and snack food purchasing among adolescents in Melbourne, Australia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Despite the increased attention on neighbourhood food environments and dietary behaviours, studies focusing on adolescents are limited. This study aims to characterise typologies of food environments surrounding adolescents and their associations with fast food outlet visitation and snack food purchasing to/from school.

Design

The number of food outlets (supermarket; green grocers; butcher/seafood/deli; bakeries; convenience stores; fast food/takeaways; café and restaurants) within a 1 km buffer from home was determined using a Geographic Information System. Adolescents' self-reported frequency of fast food outlet visitation and snack food purchasing to/from school. Latent Profile Analysis was conducted to identify typologies of the food environment. Cross-sectional multilevel logistic regression analyses were conducted to examine the relationships between food typologies, fast food outlet visitations and snack food purchasing to/from school.

Setting

Melbourne, Australia.

Participants

Totally, 410 adolescents (mean age= 15·5 (sd = 1·5) years).

Results

Four distinct typologies of food outlets were identified: (1) limited variety/low number; (2) some variety/low number; (3) high variety/medium number and (4) high variety/high number. Adolescents living in Typologies 1 and 2 had three times higher odds of visiting fast food outlets ≥1 per week (Typology 1: OR = 3·71, 95 % CI 1·23, 11·19; Typology 2: OR = 3·65, 95 % CI 1·21, 10·99) than those living in Typology 4. No evidence of association was found between typologies of the food environments and snack food purchasing behaviour to/from school among adolescents.

Conclusion

Local government could emphasise an overall balance of food outlets when designing neighbourhoods to reduce propensity for fast food outlet visitation among adolescents.

SUBMITTER: Loh VH

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9991780 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Neighbourhood food typologies, fast food outlet visitation and snack food purchasing among adolescents in Melbourne, Australia.

Loh Venurs Hy VH Poelman Maartje M Veitch Jenny J McNaughton Sarah A SA Leech Rebecca R Timperio Anna A

Public health nutrition 20211011 3

<h4>Objective</h4>Despite the increased attention on neighbourhood food environments and dietary behaviours, studies focusing on adolescents are limited. This study aims to characterise typologies of food environments surrounding adolescents and their associations with fast food outlet visitation and snack food purchasing to/from school.<h4>Design</h4>The number of food outlets (supermarket; green grocers; butcher/seafood/deli; bakeries; convenience stores; fast food/takeaways; café and restaura ...[more]

PMID: 34629138

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Neighbourhood food typologies, fast food outlet visitation and snack food purchasing among adolescents in Melbourne, Australia.

Objective

Design

Setting

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Neighbourhood food typologies, fast food outlet visitation and snack food purchasing among adolescents in Melbourne, Australia.

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