Children's fruit and vegetable intake : Associations with the neighbourhood food environment Timperio, Anna, Ball, Kylie, Roberts, Rebecca, Campbell, Karen, Andrianopoulos, Nick and Crawford, David 2008, Children's fruit and vegetable intake : Associations with the neighbourhood food environment, Preventive medicine, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 331-335, doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2007.11.011. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Children's fruit and vegetable intake : Associations with the neighbourhood food environment Author(s) Timperio, Anna orcid.org/0000-0002-8773-5012 Ball, Kylie orcid.org/0000-0003-2893-8415 Roberts, Rebecca Campbell, Karen orcid.org/0000-0002-4499-3396 Andrianopoulos, Nick Crawford, David orcid.org/0000-0002-2467-7556 Journal name Preventive medicine Volume number 46 Issue number 4 Start page 331 End page 335 Total pages 5 Publisher Academic Press Place of publication San Diego, Calif. Publication date 2008-04 ISSN 0091-7435 1096-0260 Keyword(s) children environment food availability diet fruit and vegetables access neighbourhood Summary Objective : To examine associations between availability of different types of food outlets and children's fruit and vegetable intake. Method : Parents of 340 5–6 and 461 10–12 year-old Australian children reported how frequently their child ate 14 fruits and 13 vegetables in the last week in 2002/3. A geographic information system (GIS) was used to determine the availability of the following types of food outlets near home: greengrocers; supermarkets; convenience stores; fast food outlets; restaurants, cafés and takeaway outlets. Logistic regression analyses examined the likelihood of consuming fruit ≥ 2 times/day and vegetables ≥ 3 times/day, according to access to food outlets. Results : Overall, 62.5% of children ate fruit ≥ 2 times/day and 46.4% ate vegetables ≥ 3 times/day. The more fast food outlets (OR = 0.82, 95%CI = 0.67–0.99) and convenience stores (OR = 0.84, 95%CI = 0.73–0.98) close to home, the lower the likelihood of consuming fruit ≥ 2 times/day. There was also an inverse association between density of convenience stores and the likelihood of consuming vegetables ≥ 3 times/day (OR = 0.84, 95%CI = 0.74–0.95). The likelihood of consuming vegetables ≥ 3 times/day was greater the farther children lived from a supermarket (OR = 1.27, 95%CI = 1.07–1.51) or a fast food outlet (OR = 1.19, 95%CI = 1.06–1.35). Conclusion : Availability of fast food outlets and convenience stores close to home may have a negative effect on children's fruit and vegetable intake. Language eng DOI 10.1016/j.ypmed.2007.11.011 Field of Research 111706 Epidemiology Socio Economic Objective 920205 Health Education and Promotion HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal HERDC collection year 2008 Copyright notice ©2007, Elsevier Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30017798 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 14 Aug 2009, 13:57:17 EST Tue, 03 Nov 2009, 12:32:32 EST Tue, 03 Nov 2009, 12:34:05 EST Tue, 24 Sep 2013, 14:20:23 EST Mon, 16 Jun 2014, 12:13:27 EST Mon, 29 Jun 2015, 14:16:45 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 152 times in TR Web of Science Cited 159 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1406 Abstract Views, 5 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 14 Aug 2009, 13:57:17 EST