Data
Year of publication
2020
Kind
Qualitative
Design
Cross-sectional
Classification
Other
Country studied
Ethiopia
Data
Primary
Data collected
Other (photographs)
Study setting
School
Age group of participants
Childrens/14-19
Participant sex
Mixed
Target population
General
Sample size
n=26 (participants)
Assessing factors influencing adolescents’ dietary behaviours in urban Ethiopia using participatory photography
goal
Assess factors influencing dietary behaviours of adolescents in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Results
Findings from the current study indicate that food safety concerns appear to be the major influencing factors for adolescents’ dietary choices. Unhealthy and unsafe foods appear to be widely available and/or affordable in adolescents’ neighbourhoods and almost half of the photographs taken by adolescents depicted poor hygiene conditions related to food vendors. Participants considered foods available in their environments as generally unsafe, calling for more packaged food.
Authors
Trübswasser U, Baye K, Holdsworth M, Loeffen M, Feskens EJM, Talsma EF.
Log
Public Health Nutrition
DOIs