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“I am not really into the government telling me what I need to eat”: exploring dietary beliefs, knowledge, and practices among ethnically diverse communities in England

BACKGROUND: Communities with diverse ethnicity in high-income countries are disproportionately affected by poor diet-related health outcomes. In England, the United Kingdom’s government’s healthy eating dietary resources are not well accepted and are underutilised among this population. Thus, this s...

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Autores principales: Ojo, Abimbola S., Nnyanzi, Lawrence A., Giles, Emma L., Ells, Louisa, Okeke, Sylvester R., Ajayi, Kobi V., Bolarinwa, Obasanjo Afolabi
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10152749/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37131140
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15689-6
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author Ojo, Abimbola S.
Nnyanzi, Lawrence A.
Giles, Emma L.
Ells, Louisa
Okeke, Sylvester R.
Ajayi, Kobi V.
Bolarinwa, Obasanjo Afolabi
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Nnyanzi, Lawrence A.
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description BACKGROUND: Communities with diverse ethnicity in high-income countries are disproportionately affected by poor diet-related health outcomes. In England, the United Kingdom’s government’s healthy eating dietary resources are not well accepted and are underutilised among this population. Thus, this study explored perceptions, beliefs, knowledge, and practices around dietary intake among communities with African and South Asian ethnicity residing in Medway, England. METHODS: This qualitative study generated data from 18 adults aged 18 and above using a semi-structured interview guide. These participants were sampled using purposive and convenience sampling strategies. All the interviews were conducted in English over the telephone, and responses were thematically analysed. RESULTS: Six overarching themes were generated from the interview transcripts: eating patterns, social and cultural factors, food preferences and routines, accessibility and availability, health and healthy eating, and perceptions about the United Kingdom government’s healthy eating resources. CONCLUSION: The results of this study indicate that strategies to improve access to healthy foods are required to improve healthy dietary practices among the study population. Such strategies could help address this group’s structural and individual barriers to healthy dietary practices. In addition, developing a culturally responsive eating guide could also enhance the acceptability and utilisation of such resources among communities with ethnic diversity in England. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-023-15689-6.
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spelling pubmed-101527492023-05-03 “I am not really into the government telling me what I need to eat”: exploring dietary beliefs, knowledge, and practices among ethnically diverse communities in England Ojo, Abimbola S. Nnyanzi, Lawrence A. Giles, Emma L. Ells, Louisa Okeke, Sylvester R. Ajayi, Kobi V. Bolarinwa, Obasanjo Afolabi BMC Public Health Research BACKGROUND: Communities with diverse ethnicity in high-income countries are disproportionately affected by poor diet-related health outcomes. In England, the United Kingdom’s government’s healthy eating dietary resources are not well accepted and are underutilised among this population. Thus, this study explored perceptions, beliefs, knowledge, and practices around dietary intake among communities with African and South Asian ethnicity residing in Medway, England. METHODS: This qualitative study generated data from 18 adults aged 18 and above using a semi-structured interview guide. These participants were sampled using purposive and convenience sampling strategies. All the interviews were conducted in English over the telephone, and responses were thematically analysed. RESULTS: Six overarching themes were generated from the interview transcripts: eating patterns, social and cultural factors, food preferences and routines, accessibility and availability, health and healthy eating, and perceptions about the United Kingdom government’s healthy eating resources. CONCLUSION: The results of this study indicate that strategies to improve access to healthy foods are required to improve healthy dietary practices among the study population. Such strategies could help address this group’s structural and individual barriers to healthy dietary practices. In addition, developing a culturally responsive eating guide could also enhance the acceptability and utilisation of such resources among communities with ethnic diversity in England. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-023-15689-6. BioMed Central 2023-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC10152749/ /pubmed/37131140 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15689-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Ojo, Abimbola S.
Nnyanzi, Lawrence A.
Giles, Emma L.
Ells, Louisa
Okeke, Sylvester R.
Ajayi, Kobi V.
Bolarinwa, Obasanjo Afolabi
“I am not really into the government telling me what I need to eat”: exploring dietary beliefs, knowledge, and practices among ethnically diverse communities in England
title “I am not really into the government telling me what I need to eat”: exploring dietary beliefs, knowledge, and practices among ethnically diverse communities in England
title_full “I am not really into the government telling me what I need to eat”: exploring dietary beliefs, knowledge, and practices among ethnically diverse communities in England
title_fullStr “I am not really into the government telling me what I need to eat”: exploring dietary beliefs, knowledge, and practices among ethnically diverse communities in England
title_full_unstemmed “I am not really into the government telling me what I need to eat”: exploring dietary beliefs, knowledge, and practices among ethnically diverse communities in England
title_short “I am not really into the government telling me what I need to eat”: exploring dietary beliefs, knowledge, and practices among ethnically diverse communities in England
title_sort “i am not really into the government telling me what i need to eat”: exploring dietary beliefs, knowledge, and practices among ethnically diverse communities in england
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10152749/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37131140
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15689-6
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