Dietary Intake of Schoolchildren and Adolescents in Developing Countries

Ochola, Sophie; Masibo, Peninah Kinya

doi:10.1159/000365125

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“…Sub-optimal diets have been reported among school-age children and adolescents in developing countries including Ghana [22,23]. While measurement of actual intakes of nutrients and calories is important, the single-nutrient approach to understanding diet-disease relationships is limited in its ability to account for the complexity of nutrient interactions in free-living individuals [24].…”

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Dietary patterns and associated risk factors among school age children in urban Ghana

Alangea¹,

Aryeetey²,

Gray³

et al. 2018

BMC Nutr

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Background: Understanding dietary patterns in the study of diet-disease relationships is crucial for designing dietary behaviour interventions. This study aimed to determine associations between dietary patterns and background characteristics among school age children (9-15 years) in Ghana. Methods: A cross-sectional sample of 487 urban-dwelling children age 9-15 years was recruited using simple random sampling from 24 schools (12 private and 12 public) in the Ga-East Municipality in Southern Ghana. A 7-day food frequency questionnaire was used to record children's consumption of over 100 unique food items. Principal component analyses based on 14 food groups was used to describe emerging dietary patterns (DP). BMI-for-age z-scores segregated by sex were derived using WHO Anthro plus software. Linear regression was used to test associations between 'diet factor' scores, and weight status controlling for age. Results: Four DPs were identified that explained 53.2% of variation in the diets of children: (1) energy dense; (2) starchy root staple and vegetables; (3) cereal-grain staples and poultry; and (4) fish & seafoods. Energy dense DP characterised by processed meat, fried foods, and sugary foods was associated with child overweight/obese status after controlling for age, sex, SES and school type [F(5, 484) = 6.868, p < 0.001]. Starchy root with vegetable DP was negatively associated with overweight/obese status, private school attendance and higher SES after controlling for age at bivariate level. However, relationship between 'starchy root staples and vegetables' DP and overweight/obese status lost significance after controlling for other covariates. Conclusion: Our data identified energy-dense dietary pattern to be significantly associated with childhood overweight and obesity. Targeted dietary messages are required to address energy-dense dietary patterns among school-age children.

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Dietary patterns and associated risk factors among school age children in urban Ghana

Alangea¹,

Aryeetey²,

Gray³

et al. 2018

BMC Nutr

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“…Studies describe that it is associated with low levels of maternal education (16) , lower household incomes (13) and environmental factors, which include changes in dietary patterns with intakes of high-energy and nutrient-poor foods (21) . Epidemiological evidence also suggests that maternal nutrition during pregnancy may influence the risk of child undernutrition and subsequent obesity in adulthood (22) .…”

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Factors associated with nutritional outcomes in the mother–child dyad: a population-based cross-sectional study

Géa-Horta

Silva

Fiaccone

et al. 2016

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: To estimate factors associated with double burden of nutritional outcomes in the mother-child dyad at the household level (child stunting and/or maternal overweight). Design: Cross-sectional study using the Brazilian Demographic and Health Survey. Nutritional outcomes were: mother with normal weight and child with normal height; overweight mother and child with normal height; mother with normal weight and short-stature child; and overweight mother and child with short stature (double burden). The child was classified as short when height-for-age Z-score was <−2 and the mother as overweight when BMI was ≥ 25·00 kg/m 2 . Socio-economic status, environment, social vulnerability, maternal characteristics and the child's food intake were the exposure factors. The hierarchical approach for multinomial logistic regression modelling was used to assess the associations. Setting: National Demographic and Health Survey of Children and Women conducted in Brazil, 2006Brazil, -2007. Subjects: Mother-child dyads (n 3676). Results: After adjustments, lower maternal educational level (OR = 3·53; 95 % CI 1·33, 9·33) and inadequate household (non-masonry house; OR = 2·54; 95 % CI 1·39, 4·66) were associated with the double burden of malnutrition. Mother's short stature (OR = 3·41; 95 % CI 1·76, 6·61), child's vegetable intake on less than or equal to 4 d/week (OR = 2·21; 95 % CI 1·03, 4·75) and inadequate household (non-masonry house; OR = 2·29; 95 % CI 1·36, 3·87) were associated with child's short stature. The lack of breast-feeding (OR = 2·00; 95 % CI 1·07, 3·72) was associated with maternal overweight. Conclusions: The present findings contribute to establishing strategies promoting health and healthy diets, by considering the growth deficit and overweight/obesity concomitantly. Keywords Nutritional assessment Overweight Epidemiology Child growth WomenDeveloping countries have experienced increasing rates of overweight (1,2) . In Brazil, increasing prevalence rates of overweight have been observed in the population at all life stages. Overweight was observed in 7·3 % of children under 5 years old (3) and in 33·5 % of children aged 5-9 years (4) . Among women, over the course of a 35-year period, overweight increased from 28·7 % in 1974 to 48 % in 2008. In addition, the obesity rate among women increased more than twofold during the same period, from 8 % to 16·9 % (4) . Genetic (5) , psychosocial (6) and metabolic (7) factors may be associated with obesity. However, the factors that best explain the growing number of overweight people involve changes in lifestyle (8) , the high prevalence of physical inactivity and the increased consumption of processed foods with high energy density, particularly those rich in saturated fat and simple carbohydrates (9) .Unlike overweight, the prevalence of child undernutrition has declined globally over the past decades. However, this reduction in undernutrition is occurring unevenly; in fact, the problem has increased in some countries (10) . It is estimated that 186 milli...

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“…Most adolescents seldom use routine health services, looking for medical care in punctual or urgency situations. However, this age range is considered a risk to adopt eating habits that prioritize the consumption of industrialized foods with high energy density and insufficient content of some nutrients such as food fibers [11][12][13].…”

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Intestinal Functional among Adolescents in Brazil

La¹,

Ciampo²

2017

J Community Med Health Educ

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This paper aimed at determining the characteristics of bowel movements among adolescents. A cross-sectional study with all teenagers attended in a Primary Health Care Unit included 215 adolescents. According to the Rome III criteria 11.6% of the adolescents (52% males; 48% females) were considered constipated and 16.2% presented some alterations of intestinal function. Twenty-two (10.2%) reported elimination of dry/fragmented feces and 6.0% increased stool volume. Regarding the perception of bowel movements 39.5% reported a delay in starting evacuation. This result reinforces the importance of to identify the changes in bowel habits to promote interventions for the prevention of intestinal constipation.

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Dietary Intake of Schoolchildren and Adolescents in Developing Countries

Cited by 150 publications

References 78 publications

Dietary patterns and associated risk factors among school age children in urban Ghana

Dietary patterns and associated risk factors among school age children in urban Ghana

Factors associated with nutritional outcomes in the mother–child dyad: a population-based cross-sectional study

Intestinal Functional among Adolescents in Brazil

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