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Dietary diversity and associated factors among adolescents in eastern Uganda: a cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Globally adolescents constitute over 16% but in SSA, they make up 23% of the population. While little is known about diets of these adolescents, rapid changes in physiological and social processes undergone require adequate diets. This study aimed to determine dietary diversity and assoc...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7169017/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32306947 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-08669-7 |
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author | Isabirye, Nathan Bukenya, Justine Nnakate Nakafeero, Mary Ssekamatte, Tonny Guwatudde, David Fawzi, Wafaie |
author_facet | Isabirye, Nathan Bukenya, Justine Nnakate Nakafeero, Mary Ssekamatte, Tonny Guwatudde, David Fawzi, Wafaie |
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description | BACKGROUND: Globally adolescents constitute over 16% but in SSA, they make up 23% of the population. While little is known about diets of these adolescents, rapid changes in physiological and social processes undergone require adequate diets. This study aimed to determine dietary diversity and associated factors among adolescents residing in the Iganga -Mayuge HDSS. METHODS: As part of the African Research, Implementation Science, and Education (ARISE) Network, we analysed collected data among 598 adolescents to assess the health status and adolescents’ behaviour. Dietary diversity was scored using the 9 food group categories as per the Food and Agriculture Organization -WDDS. Crude and adjusted prevalence rate ratios were estimated using the modified Poisson regression model to identify associated factors. RESULTS: Among the participants, 45.3% had a low dietary diversity score. Proportions of adolescents who consumed from the different food categories over a 24-h period were; cereals/roots/tubers (99.7%), fats & oils (87.0%), spices & beverages (84.1%), sweets (77.1%), legumes (66.2%), other non-vitamin A-rich vegetables (53.8%), dark green leafy vegetables (42.3%), meat/poultry/fish (33.1%), dairy products (32.9%), eggs (11.2%), vitamin A-rich fruits and vegetables (33.4%) and other fruits (8.2%). Staying with a single parent or guardian, low socio-economic class, and dependency on home meals was associated with low dietary diversity. CONCLUSIONS: Adolescents diets were low in diversity and characterised with low micronutrients source foods, but plenty of fats and oils. Interventions to address contributing factors to the burden ought to target the parenting contexts of the adolescents residing in rural eastern Uganda. |
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spelling | pubmed-71690172020-04-23 Dietary diversity and associated factors among adolescents in eastern Uganda: a cross-sectional study Isabirye, Nathan Bukenya, Justine Nnakate Nakafeero, Mary Ssekamatte, Tonny Guwatudde, David Fawzi, Wafaie BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Globally adolescents constitute over 16% but in SSA, they make up 23% of the population. While little is known about diets of these adolescents, rapid changes in physiological and social processes undergone require adequate diets. This study aimed to determine dietary diversity and associated factors among adolescents residing in the Iganga -Mayuge HDSS. METHODS: As part of the African Research, Implementation Science, and Education (ARISE) Network, we analysed collected data among 598 adolescents to assess the health status and adolescents’ behaviour. Dietary diversity was scored using the 9 food group categories as per the Food and Agriculture Organization -WDDS. Crude and adjusted prevalence rate ratios were estimated using the modified Poisson regression model to identify associated factors. RESULTS: Among the participants, 45.3% had a low dietary diversity score. Proportions of adolescents who consumed from the different food categories over a 24-h period were; cereals/roots/tubers (99.7%), fats & oils (87.0%), spices & beverages (84.1%), sweets (77.1%), legumes (66.2%), other non-vitamin A-rich vegetables (53.8%), dark green leafy vegetables (42.3%), meat/poultry/fish (33.1%), dairy products (32.9%), eggs (11.2%), vitamin A-rich fruits and vegetables (33.4%) and other fruits (8.2%). Staying with a single parent or guardian, low socio-economic class, and dependency on home meals was associated with low dietary diversity. CONCLUSIONS: Adolescents diets were low in diversity and characterised with low micronutrients source foods, but plenty of fats and oils. Interventions to address contributing factors to the burden ought to target the parenting contexts of the adolescents residing in rural eastern Uganda. BioMed Central 2020-04-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7169017/ /pubmed/32306947 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-08669-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 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/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://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. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Isabirye, Nathan Bukenya, Justine Nnakate Nakafeero, Mary Ssekamatte, Tonny Guwatudde, David Fawzi, Wafaie Dietary diversity and associated factors among adolescents in eastern Uganda: a cross-sectional study |
title | Dietary diversity and associated factors among adolescents in eastern Uganda: a cross-sectional study |
title_full | Dietary diversity and associated factors among adolescents in eastern Uganda: a cross-sectional study |
title_fullStr | Dietary diversity and associated factors among adolescents in eastern Uganda: a cross-sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | Dietary diversity and associated factors among adolescents in eastern Uganda: a cross-sectional study |
title_short | Dietary diversity and associated factors among adolescents in eastern Uganda: a cross-sectional study |
title_sort | dietary diversity and associated factors among adolescents in eastern uganda: a cross-sectional study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7169017/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32306947 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-08669-7 |
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