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Socio-Demographic and Diet-Related Factors Associated with Insufficient Fruit and Vegetable Consumption among Adolescent Girls in Rural Communities of Southern Nepal

Sufficient fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption has been associated with reduced risks of chronic diseases and adverse health conditions. However, the determinants of insufficient of FV intake among adolescent girls in Nepal have not been determined. This study was undertaken to identify association...

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Autores principales: Singh, Jitendra Kumar, Acharya, Dilaram, Gautam, Salila, Adhikari, Mandira, Park, Ji-Hyuk, Yoo, Seok-Ju, Lee, Kwan
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6617531/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31213004
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16122145
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author Singh, Jitendra Kumar
Acharya, Dilaram
Gautam, Salila
Adhikari, Mandira
Park, Ji-Hyuk
Yoo, Seok-Ju
Lee, Kwan
author_facet Singh, Jitendra Kumar
Acharya, Dilaram
Gautam, Salila
Adhikari, Mandira
Park, Ji-Hyuk
Yoo, Seok-Ju
Lee, Kwan
author_sort Singh, Jitendra Kumar
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description Sufficient fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption has been associated with reduced risks of chronic diseases and adverse health conditions. However, the determinants of insufficient of FV intake among adolescent girls in Nepal have not been determined. This study was undertaken to identify associations between socio-demographic and diet-related factors with insufficient fruit and vegetable consumption among adolescent girls living in rural communities. This community-based, cross-sectional study was conducted on 407 adolescent girls from rural communities in the Bateshwar rural municipality of Dhanusha district, Southern Nepal between 12 October, 2018 and 14 December, 2018. The study subjects responded to FV consumption and dietary factor-related questionnaires, and anthropometric measurements were taken. Data were analyzed using the univariate logistic regression followed by multivariable logistic regression analyses. Unadjusted and adjusted odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals (CI) are reported. From the 407 study subjects, 359 (88.2%) reported insufficient FV consumption. The factors significantly associated with insufficient FV consumption were education to under the 10th grade, household income in the first tercile, lack of awareness of the importance of FV consumption, the non-availability of FVs at the household level, the low level of dietary diversity, and undernutrition (BMI (body mass index) (<18.5)). The study shows almost 90% of adolescent girls consumed inadequate amounts of FV and that socio-demographic and dietary factors should be taken into account while designing preventive strategies to increase fruit and vegetable consumption to recommended levels.
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spelling pubmed-66175312019-07-18 Socio-Demographic and Diet-Related Factors Associated with Insufficient Fruit and Vegetable Consumption among Adolescent Girls in Rural Communities of Southern Nepal Singh, Jitendra Kumar Acharya, Dilaram Gautam, Salila Adhikari, Mandira Park, Ji-Hyuk Yoo, Seok-Ju Lee, Kwan Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Sufficient fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption has been associated with reduced risks of chronic diseases and adverse health conditions. However, the determinants of insufficient of FV intake among adolescent girls in Nepal have not been determined. This study was undertaken to identify associations between socio-demographic and diet-related factors with insufficient fruit and vegetable consumption among adolescent girls living in rural communities. This community-based, cross-sectional study was conducted on 407 adolescent girls from rural communities in the Bateshwar rural municipality of Dhanusha district, Southern Nepal between 12 October, 2018 and 14 December, 2018. The study subjects responded to FV consumption and dietary factor-related questionnaires, and anthropometric measurements were taken. Data were analyzed using the univariate logistic regression followed by multivariable logistic regression analyses. Unadjusted and adjusted odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals (CI) are reported. From the 407 study subjects, 359 (88.2%) reported insufficient FV consumption. The factors significantly associated with insufficient FV consumption were education to under the 10th grade, household income in the first tercile, lack of awareness of the importance of FV consumption, the non-availability of FVs at the household level, the low level of dietary diversity, and undernutrition (BMI (body mass index) (<18.5)). The study shows almost 90% of adolescent girls consumed inadequate amounts of FV and that socio-demographic and dietary factors should be taken into account while designing preventive strategies to increase fruit and vegetable consumption to recommended levels. MDPI 2019-06-17 2019-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6617531/ /pubmed/31213004 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16122145 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Acharya, Dilaram
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Adhikari, Mandira
Park, Ji-Hyuk
Yoo, Seok-Ju
Lee, Kwan
Socio-Demographic and Diet-Related Factors Associated with Insufficient Fruit and Vegetable Consumption among Adolescent Girls in Rural Communities of Southern Nepal
title Socio-Demographic and Diet-Related Factors Associated with Insufficient Fruit and Vegetable Consumption among Adolescent Girls in Rural Communities of Southern Nepal
title_full Socio-Demographic and Diet-Related Factors Associated with Insufficient Fruit and Vegetable Consumption among Adolescent Girls in Rural Communities of Southern Nepal
title_fullStr Socio-Demographic and Diet-Related Factors Associated with Insufficient Fruit and Vegetable Consumption among Adolescent Girls in Rural Communities of Southern Nepal
title_full_unstemmed Socio-Demographic and Diet-Related Factors Associated with Insufficient Fruit and Vegetable Consumption among Adolescent Girls in Rural Communities of Southern Nepal
title_short Socio-Demographic and Diet-Related Factors Associated with Insufficient Fruit and Vegetable Consumption among Adolescent Girls in Rural Communities of Southern Nepal
title_sort socio-demographic and diet-related factors associated with insufficient fruit and vegetable consumption among adolescent girls in rural communities of southern nepal
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6617531/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31213004
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16122145
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