Neighborhood food typologies, fast food outlet visitation and snack food purchasing among adolescents in Melbourne, Australia Loh, Venurs, Poelman, MP, Veitch, Jenny, McNaughton, Sarah, Leech, Rebecca and Timperio, Anna 2021, Neighborhood food typologies, fast food outlet visitation and snack food purchasing among adolescents in Melbourne, Australia, Public Health Nutrition, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 1-24, doi: 10.1017/S1368980021004298. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Neighborhood food typologies, fast food outlet visitation and snack food purchasing among adolescents in Melbourne, Australia Author(s) Loh, Venurs orcid.org/0000-0003-1821-1087 Poelman, MP Veitch, Jenny orcid.org/0000-0001-8962-0887 McNaughton, Sarah orcid.org/0000-0001-5936-9820 Leech, Rebecca orcid.org/0000-0002-5333-0164 Timperio, Anna orcid.org/0000-0002-8773-5012 Journal name Public Health Nutrition Volume number 25 Issue number 3 Start page 1 End page 24 Total pages 24 Publisher Cambridge University Press (CUP) Place of publication England Publication date 2021-01-01 ISSN 1368-9800 1475-2727 Keyword(s) Adolescents Fast food Food environment Food purchasing Neighbourhood Summary AbstractObjective: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. Language en DOI 10.1017/S1368980021004298 Field of Research 11 Medical and Health Sciences HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30156922 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Link to full-text (open access)   Connect to Elements publication management system 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. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 13 Oct 2021, 07:24:02 EST Wed, 13 Oct 2021, 17:41:16 EST Wed, 13 Oct 2021, 17:43:40 EST Sat, 30 Oct 2021, 01:46:36 EST Fri, 12 Nov 2021, 05:14:01 EST Wed, 15 Dec 2021, 14:54:04 EST Wed, 15 Dec 2021, 15:32:36 EST Wed, 15 Dec 2021, 15:40:00 EST Wed, 15 Dec 2021, 15:54:02 EST Wed, 23 Mar 2022, 13:12:28 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 56 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Wed, 13 Oct 2021, 07:24:02 EST