Factors Influencing Healthy Eating Habits Among College Students: An Application of the Health Belief Model

Deshpande, Sameer; Basil, Michael D.; Basil, Debra Z.

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“…However, benefit has no significant impact on masterminds, whereas it influences achievers negatively. The negative association of benefit with achievers contradicts the HBM prediction [33]; however, it supports some other findings that benefit does not statistically influence the likelihood of healthy eating [15]. A possible explanation is that adopting a healthy behavior is a lifestyle that spans over a lifetime with no quantifiable benefit.…”

Section: Perceived Benefitmentioning

confidence: 33%

“…The questions used in measuring the six HBM determinants were constructed based on guidelines developed by Abraham and Sheeran [12], and have been validated on healthy eating by Sapp and Jensen [34] and Deshpande [15]. All of the HBM variables were measured using participant agreement with a 7-point Likert scale ranging from "1 = Strongly disagree" to "7 = Strongly agree".…”

Section: Measurement Instrumentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Tailoring persuasive health games to gamer type

Orji

Mandryk

Vassileva

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Persuasive games are an effective approach for motivating health behavior, and recent years have seen an increase in games designed for changing human behaviors or attitudes. However, these games are limited in two major ways: first, they are not based on theories of what motivates healthy behavior change. This makes it difficult to evaluate why a persuasive approach works. Second, most persuasive games treat players as a monolithic group. As an attempt to resolve these weaknesses, we conducted a large-scale survey of 642 gamers' eating habits and their associated determinants of healthy behavior to understand how health behavior relates to gamer type. We developed seven different models of healthy eating behavior for the gamer types identified by BrainHex. We then explored the differences between the models and created two approaches for effective persuasive game design based on our results. The first is a one-sizefits-all approach that will motivate the majority of the population, while not demotivating any players. The second is a personalized approach that will best motivate a particular type of gamer. Finally, to make our approaches actionable in persuasive game design, we map common game mechanics to the determinants of healthy behavior.

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Section: Perceived Benefitmentioning

confidence: 33%

Section: Measurement Instrumentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tailoring persuasive health games to gamer type

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Mandryk

Vassileva

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…University students are in the emerging adulthood period which is a critical time during which young people establish independence and adopt life-long patterns of health and behavior. It is the time associated with unhealthy lifestyle characteristics and increased risk of obesity and chronic diseases [2,3] . The transition to college life often worsens dietary habits among students, as this is the period during which individuals are for the most part exposed to lack of time and stress which is associated with poor diets and inactivity [3,4] .…”

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Eating attitudes and barriers to healthy eating and physical activity among a sample of university students in Egypt

El-Bagoury

Hassan

AbouSeif

2017

EPX

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Background: More students are concerned about their body shape and have a desire to have a lower BMI. As a consequence, many of them have disordered eating attitudes (DEAs) and engage themselves in unhealthy weight control behaviors. Aim: To measure the frequency of DEAs among Ain Shams University students and to identify the barriers to healthy eating and physical activity among them. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was done on a sample of 445 students in Ain Shams University from different faculties using a self-reported questionnaire. The weight and height were measured and the BMI was calculated. The eating attitudes were measured using the Eating Attitudes Test-26 questionnaire. Results: The students' age ranged between 17 and 26 years with a mean of 20.3±1.5 years, 40.7% of them were men and 59.3% women. The majority of students (50.8%) had normal BMI, and about 39% were overweight and obese. The frequency of DEAs was 73.3%. There was no significant relation between the presence of DEAs and personal data of students such as age, sex, faculty, and BMI. Lack of time was the most highlighted barrier to both physical activity and healthy eating. Conclusion: There was a high prevalence rate of obesity and DEA that necessitates a lot of efforts to help the youth control their body weights and correct unhealthy behaviors by overcoming barriers against healthy behaviors.

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“…This is very important because young consumers are likely to take their eating habits into their older age. Although many food preferences are established at an early stage in life, people still make more independent decisions about their food intake as they move through adolescence (Deshpande, Basil and Basil, 2009). For the very young, many food choices are constrained by the decisions of parents and pre-college systems (Nicklas et al, 2001).…”

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Food Sources and Preferences of College Students

Deric¹,

Godfrey²,

Quaicoe³

2017

ESJ

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Young adults, especially college students, in the United States (U.S.) have to make independent decisions on where to buy food and the attributes of the food to buy. For some, the decision is one of their first undertakings since leaving home and could be foundational relative to their food choices, with its attendant health implications, later in life. We used a data from a survey to ascertain the frequency with which some U.S. college students shop at different types of food vendors such as grocery stores, supermarkets, fast food restaurants and full-service restaurants. We also asked about the food attributes that were important to students. Our results indicate that supermarkets were the primary sources of food at home for the students while fast food restaurants were the dominant sources of food away from home. Taste, followed by price, were the most important food attributes for students. Most students indicated a willingness to pay more for local food and food produced on small farms. Food vendors that could provide food that tastes good at lower prices are likely to have a competitive edge in attracting college students as patrons. The interest of students in local foods suggests that the current local foods movement may not be a fad, but could be sustained for a longer period.

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Factors Influencing Healthy Eating Habits Among College Students: An Application of the Health Belief Model

Cited by 267 publications

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Tailoring persuasive health games to gamer type

Tailoring persuasive health games to gamer type

Eating attitudes and barriers to healthy eating and physical activity among a sample of university students in Egypt

Food Sources and Preferences of College Students

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