Frequency of consumption of fruits, vegetables and soft drinks: a comparative study among adolescents in urban and rural areas

Xavier, Iza Cristina de Vasconcelos Martins; Hardman, Carla Menêses; Andrade, Maria Laura Siqueira de Souza; Barros, Mauro Virgílio Gomes de

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“…Urbanization has also contributed to change the population lifestyle, especially their eating habits. This change caused an increase in the availability of food in general, and media-stimulated foods, which are the richest in sugar and sodium [4,20]. Similar to our study, Xavier et al [20], evaluating the frequency of consumption of fruits and vegetables among adolescents living in urban and rural areas in the state of Pernambuco, also reported a lower consumption of fruits and vegetables among students in urban areas compared to the ones in rural areas.…”

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Factors associated with the consumption of fi ve daily servings of fruits and vegetables by students

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Objective To evaluate and associate the frequency of consumption of five daily servings of fruits and vegetables with socioeconomic and demographic factors of students in the city of Santa Cruz do Sul, Brazil. Methods A cross-sectional study with a sample stratified by clusters of 1,578 students aged 7 to 17 in the city of Santa Cruz do Sul (Rio Grande do Sul state), Brazil. Volunteers were asked whether they consumed five daily servings of fruits and vegetables. This consumption was classified as irregular or regular. Data regarding gender, age, socioeconomic status, domicile area, and information on the nutritional status of students were also collected. The prevalence ratio was calculated with a significance level of p<0.05. Results The consumption of at least five servings of fruits and vegetables per day was reported by 40.6% of students. The irregular consumption of fruits and vegetables was higher among students aged 10-12 (69.7%, p<0.001), boys (60.9%, p<0.001), and urban area residents (61.8%, p<0.001). There were no significant differences between the consumption of fruits and vegetables and the students’ socioeconomic status (p=0.094), nor with their nutritional status (p=0.999). Conclusion The students presented an irregular consumption of fruits and vegetables in relation to the recommendations of five servings per day. However, age and domicile area, which were significantly associated with the consumption of fruits and vegetables, were not associated with their socioeconomic and nutritional status.

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“…The results for these behaviors will not be explored in this study, as they already have been presented alone in previous investigations. 19 - 21 Fig. 2 shows the prevalence of co-occurrence of health risk behavior exposure observed in the sample by gender.…”

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“…This tool had both face and content validity evaluated by experts (researchers experienced in performing epidemiological studies focused on health behaviors), and had its indicators of co-occurrence validity and reproducibility tested in a pilot study. Consistency indicators of test-retest measure ranged from moderate to high (kappa coefficient =0.52-1.00) 19 - 21 for most items. The test-retest reproducibility coefficients (kappa coefficient) of the measures used in this study were: 0.86 for physical activity; 0.66 for the consumption of fruits; 0.77 for the consumption of vegetables; 0.76 for alcohol consumption; 0.62 for tobacco use, and 0.74 for sedentary behavior.…”

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Prevalência e fatores associados à simultaneidade de comportamentos de risco à saúde em adolescentes

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Hardman

Barros

2015

Revista Paulista de Pediatria

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Objective:To analyze the prevalence and factors associated with the co-occurrence of health risk behaviors in adolescents.Methods:A cross-sectional study was performed with a sample of high school students from state public schools in Pernambuco, Brazil (n=4207, 14-19 years old). Data were obtained using a questionnaire. The co-occurrence of health risk behaviors was established based on the sum of five behavioral risk factors (low physical activity, sedentary behavior, low consumption of fruits/vegetables, alcohol consumption and tobacco use). The independent variables were gender, age group, time of day attending school, school size, maternal education, occupational status, skin color, geographic region and place of residence. Data were analyzed by ordinal logistic regression with proportional odds model.Results:Approximately 10% of adolescents were not exposed to health risk behaviors, while 58.5% reported being exposed to at least two health risk behaviors simultaneously. There was a higher likelihood of co-occurrence of health risk behaviors among adolescents in the older age group, with intermediate maternal education (9-11 years of schooling), and who reported living in the driest (semi-arid) region of the state of Pernambuco. Adolescents who reported having a job and living in rural areas had a lower likelihood of co-occurrence of risk behaviors.Conclusions:The findings suggest a high prevalence of co-occurrence of health risk behaviors in this group of adolescents, with a higher chance in five subgroups (older age, intermediate maternal education, the ones that reported not working, those living in urban areas and in the driest region of the state).

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“…In Pernambuco,21 one out of three adolescents does not consume or consumes fruits and vegetables at least once per day and 62.9% of them are daily exposed to excessive consumption of soft drinks. The National Adolescent School-based Health Survey (PeNSE)22 pointed out that 21% of students do not consume fruits and 26.8% do not eat vegetables in any day of the week.…”

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Consumption of fruits and vegetables associated with other risk behaviors among adolescents in Northeast Brazil

Silva

Smith-Menezes

Duarte

2016

Revista Paulista de Pediatria (English Edition)

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Objective:To determine the prevalence of consumption of fruits and vegetables and identify the association with low level of physical activity, exposure to sedentary behavior, consumption of soft drinks and overweight/obesity in adolescents.Methods:This is a cross-sectional school-based study with a representative sample of 3992 students aged 14–19 years from the state of Sergipe, Brazil. The outcome was low consumption of fruits and vegetables (<5servings/day). Independent variables were: level of physical activity, sedentary behavior, consumption of soft drinks, and overweight/obesity. Global Student Health Survey questionnaire and body mass and height measurements were used, as well as chi-square test and crude and adjusted binary logistic regression. The significance level adopted was 5%.Results:The prevalence of inadequate consumption of fruits and vegetables was high – 88.6% (95%CI=87.6–89.5). Higher likelihood of low consumption of fruits and vegetables was verified among boys who were exposed to sedentary behavior (OR=1.63; 95%CI=1.18–2.24), who consumed soft drinks (OR=3.04; 95%CI=2.10–4.40), with insufficiently physical activity (OR=1.98; 95%CI=1.43–2.73) and girls who consumed soft drinks (OR=1.88; 95%CI=1.43–2.47) and those with overweight/obesity (OR=1.63; 95%CI=1.19–2.23).Conclusions:There is a need of public policies aimed at encouraging the consumption of healthy foods among adolescents.

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Frequency of consumption of fruits, vegetables and soft drinks: a comparative study among adolescents in urban and rural areas

Abstract: Adolescent students living in rural areas had a higher prevalence of low consumption of natural fruit juices while those residing in urban areas had a higher prevalence of daily consumption of soda drinks.

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Factors associated with the consumption of fi ve daily servings of fruits and vegetables by students

Factors associated with the consumption of fi ve daily servings of fruits and vegetables by students

Prevalência e fatores associados à simultaneidade de comportamentos de risco à saúde em adolescentes

Consumption of fruits and vegetables associated with other risk behaviors among adolescents in Northeast Brazil

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