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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.

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Title Neighborhood food typologies, fast food outlet visitation and snack food purchasing among adolescents in Melbourne, Australia
Author(s) Loh, VenursORCID iD for Loh, Venurs orcid.org/0000-0003-1821-1087
Poelman, MP
Veitch, JennyORCID iD for Veitch, Jenny orcid.org/0000-0001-8962-0887
McNaughton, SarahORCID iD for McNaughton, Sarah orcid.org/0000-0001-5936-9820
Leech, RebeccaORCID iD for Leech, Rebecca orcid.org/0000-0002-5333-0164
Timperio, AnnaORCID iD for 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
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