TY - JOUR
T1 - School and Home Contributions to Dietary Behaviors of Rural Youth
AU - Lorenz, Kent A.
AU - Stylianou, Michalis
AU - Kulinna, Pamela Hodges
AU - Yu, Hyeonho
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Health Works Foundation of Arizona
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2022.
PY - 2023/5
Y1 - 2023/5
N2 - Purpose: This study examined dietary behaviors of rural youth at school and at home and sociodemographic differences. Design: A cross-sectional design was used. Setting: The study took place in five rural schools in the Southwestern US. Sample: Student participants (N = 751) were in 3rd-8th grades. Measures: Consumption of fruits, vegetables, dairy, and soda/pop, at school and at home, were measured using a modified 7-day recall Youth Risk Behavior survey for nutrition instrument (CDC, 2011); Sociodemographic data. Analysis: Descriptive statistics, frequency tables and MANCOVA were used. Results: Following a natural log transformation of the dependent variables, there were significant multivariate effects in dietary behaviors across schools (Wilks’ λ = 0.962, F(16, 2539.4) = 2.05, P = 0.0082) and location (school v. home; Wilks’ λ = 0.849, F(4, 831) = 36.94, P < 0.0001). Follow-up tests showed students in some schools reported higher consumption of fruit, vegetable, and soda at home than school, although most reported consuming less than one serving per day of fruit, vegetables, and dairy across settings. There were no significant main effects for gender/grade/ethnicity across behaviors. Conclusions: Findings highlight poor dietary behaviors of rural youth as well as school/home differences that can help inform efforts to support optimal dietary behaviors of this population. Results should be interpreted considering limitations of the self-report nature of collected data and missing data.
AB - Purpose: This study examined dietary behaviors of rural youth at school and at home and sociodemographic differences. Design: A cross-sectional design was used. Setting: The study took place in five rural schools in the Southwestern US. Sample: Student participants (N = 751) were in 3rd-8th grades. Measures: Consumption of fruits, vegetables, dairy, and soda/pop, at school and at home, were measured using a modified 7-day recall Youth Risk Behavior survey for nutrition instrument (CDC, 2011); Sociodemographic data. Analysis: Descriptive statistics, frequency tables and MANCOVA were used. Results: Following a natural log transformation of the dependent variables, there were significant multivariate effects in dietary behaviors across schools (Wilks’ λ = 0.962, F(16, 2539.4) = 2.05, P = 0.0082) and location (school v. home; Wilks’ λ = 0.849, F(4, 831) = 36.94, P < 0.0001). Follow-up tests showed students in some schools reported higher consumption of fruit, vegetable, and soda at home than school, although most reported consuming less than one serving per day of fruit, vegetables, and dairy across settings. There were no significant main effects for gender/grade/ethnicity across behaviors. Conclusions: Findings highlight poor dietary behaviors of rural youth as well as school/home differences that can help inform efforts to support optimal dietary behaviors of this population. Results should be interpreted considering limitations of the self-report nature of collected data and missing data.
KW - children
KW - food consumption
KW - health
KW - nutrition
KW - youth
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U2 - 10.1177/08901171221134792
DO - 10.1177/08901171221134792
M3 - Article
C2 - 36260863
AN - SCOPUS:85140217463
SN - 0890-1171
VL - 37
SP - 478
EP - 487
JO - American Journal of Health Promotion
JF - American Journal of Health Promotion
IS - 4
ER -