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In‐depth assessment of snacking behaviour in unmarried adolescent girls 16–19 years of age living in urban centres of Java, Indonesia

Adolescence is a critical period characterized by physical, social, and developmental changes that impact on health and eating behaviour. Indonesia is experiencing dramatic economic and infrastructural changes, causing greater access to the global food industry and media. This transition is influenc...

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Autores principales: Blum, Lauren S., Mellisa, Ayu, Kurnia Sari, Eny, Novitasari Yusadiredja, Isma, van Liere, Marti, Shulman, Susan, Izwardy, Doddy, Menon, Ravi, Tumilowicz, Alison
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Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6852566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31042814
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12833
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author Blum, Lauren S.
Mellisa, Ayu
Kurnia Sari, Eny
Novitasari Yusadiredja, Isma
van Liere, Marti
Shulman, Susan
Izwardy, Doddy
Menon, Ravi
Tumilowicz, Alison
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Mellisa, Ayu
Kurnia Sari, Eny
Novitasari Yusadiredja, Isma
van Liere, Marti
Shulman, Susan
Izwardy, Doddy
Menon, Ravi
Tumilowicz, Alison
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description Adolescence is a critical period characterized by physical, social, and developmental changes that impact on health and eating behaviour. Indonesia is experiencing dramatic economic and infrastructural changes, causing greater access to the global food industry and media. This transition is influencing food intake trends, leading to new nutritional challenges in adolescent girls. Qualitative research was conducted between November 2016 and January 2017 in five urban sites in Java, Indonesia, to examine individual, social, environmental, and macrosystem factors affecting snacking behaviours in unmarried adolescent girls 16–19 years of age. Methods entailed 30 freelisting exercises, nine key informant interviews, and 16 in‐depth interviews. Freelisting results identified over 200 snack foods, with the most salient processed convenience foods such as chips and cookies. Respondents typically snacked multiple times daily. Widespread availability of affordable and “tasty” snacks makes snack foods appealing meal substitutes. Snacks provide a distraction to boredom and loneliness and an enhancement to social gatherings. Girls exhibited limited understanding or concern about potential negative effects of snacking. Parents facilitate acquisition of nutrient‐poor snacks, whereas friends exert pressure for routine consumption of snack foods. Social media infiltrated with promotions of eateries and snack foods is likely contributing to the preponderance of snack food consumption. Routine consumption of snack foods high in sugar, salt, and fat and skipping meals will likely have long‐term consequences on the nutritional status and health of Indonesian adolescent girls. Findings underline the urgent need to develop contextually relevant, targeted behavioural change strategies to modify the potentially harmful eating and activity patterns of adolescent girls identified in this study and to curb the trajectory of overweight in urban Indonesia.
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spelling pubmed-68525662019-11-21 In‐depth assessment of snacking behaviour in unmarried adolescent girls 16–19 years of age living in urban centres of Java, Indonesia Blum, Lauren S. Mellisa, Ayu Kurnia Sari, Eny Novitasari Yusadiredja, Isma van Liere, Marti Shulman, Susan Izwardy, Doddy Menon, Ravi Tumilowicz, Alison Matern Child Nutr Original Articles Adolescence is a critical period characterized by physical, social, and developmental changes that impact on health and eating behaviour. Indonesia is experiencing dramatic economic and infrastructural changes, causing greater access to the global food industry and media. This transition is influencing food intake trends, leading to new nutritional challenges in adolescent girls. Qualitative research was conducted between November 2016 and January 2017 in five urban sites in Java, Indonesia, to examine individual, social, environmental, and macrosystem factors affecting snacking behaviours in unmarried adolescent girls 16–19 years of age. Methods entailed 30 freelisting exercises, nine key informant interviews, and 16 in‐depth interviews. Freelisting results identified over 200 snack foods, with the most salient processed convenience foods such as chips and cookies. Respondents typically snacked multiple times daily. Widespread availability of affordable and “tasty” snacks makes snack foods appealing meal substitutes. Snacks provide a distraction to boredom and loneliness and an enhancement to social gatherings. Girls exhibited limited understanding or concern about potential negative effects of snacking. Parents facilitate acquisition of nutrient‐poor snacks, whereas friends exert pressure for routine consumption of snack foods. Social media infiltrated with promotions of eateries and snack foods is likely contributing to the preponderance of snack food consumption. Routine consumption of snack foods high in sugar, salt, and fat and skipping meals will likely have long‐term consequences on the nutritional status and health of Indonesian adolescent girls. Findings underline the urgent need to develop contextually relevant, targeted behavioural change strategies to modify the potentially harmful eating and activity patterns of adolescent girls identified in this study and to curb the trajectory of overweight in urban Indonesia. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019-08-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6852566/ /pubmed/31042814 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12833 Text en © 2019 The Authors Maternal & Child Nutrition Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Blum, Lauren S.
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Novitasari Yusadiredja, Isma
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Shulman, Susan
Izwardy, Doddy
Menon, Ravi
Tumilowicz, Alison
In‐depth assessment of snacking behaviour in unmarried adolescent girls 16–19 years of age living in urban centres of Java, Indonesia
title In‐depth assessment of snacking behaviour in unmarried adolescent girls 16–19 years of age living in urban centres of Java, Indonesia
title_full In‐depth assessment of snacking behaviour in unmarried adolescent girls 16–19 years of age living in urban centres of Java, Indonesia
title_fullStr In‐depth assessment of snacking behaviour in unmarried adolescent girls 16–19 years of age living in urban centres of Java, Indonesia
title_full_unstemmed In‐depth assessment of snacking behaviour in unmarried adolescent girls 16–19 years of age living in urban centres of Java, Indonesia
title_short In‐depth assessment of snacking behaviour in unmarried adolescent girls 16–19 years of age living in urban centres of Java, Indonesia
title_sort in‐depth assessment of snacking behaviour in unmarried adolescent girls 16–19 years of age living in urban centres of java, indonesia
topic Original Articles
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6852566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31042814
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12833
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