Journal article
Food Insecurity, Meal Behaviors, Beverage Intake, and Body Mass Index in Underserved Adolescents
Journal of health care for the poor and underserved, Vol.32(3), pp.1372-1383
08/01/2021
DOI: 10.1353/HPU.2021.0138
PMID: 34421037
Abstract
Objective. Associations between food insecurity, meal patterns, beverage intake, and body mass index (BMI) were investigated using data from the Howard Meharry Adolescent Caries Study. Methods. Secondary analyses of food security status used the Wilcoxon rank sum, chi-square, and Fisher's exact tests. Results. The group of adolescents (n=627) was 42.1% male, 14.2 +/- 1.9 years, 86.9% African American, and 19.9% food-insecure. Meal frequency, meal structure, most beverage intake, and BMI did not differ by food-security status. Adolescents from Washington, DC were more likely to be food insecure than adolescents from Nashville, TN (P=0.003). Most had unstructured meal patterns and irregular breakfast intake. Median milk intake was below and sugar-sweetened beverage intake above dietary recommendations. Conclusions. This study extends our knowledge concerning food insecurity in urban African American adolescents and suggests public health initiatives designed to encourage meal structure, increase milk intake, and reduce sugar-sweetened beverage intake can improve diet quality of underserved youth.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Food Insecurity, Meal Behaviors, Beverage Intake, and Body Mass Index in Underserved Adolescents
- Creators
- Teresa Marshall - Univ Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 USAEshetu Tefera - Medstar Hlth Res Inst, Hyattsville, MD USABrian Laurence - Howard UniversityCherae M. Farmer-Dixon - Meharry Medical CollegeAngela Southwell - Meharry Medical CollegeTiffany Edmonds - Howard UniversityDianne Harris - Friendship Charter Publ Sch, Washington, DC USAGeorge Taylor - Univ Calif San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143 USANawar Shara - Medstar Hlth Res Inst, Hyattsville, MD USADonna Grant-Mills - Howard University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of health care for the poor and underserved, Vol.32(3), pp.1372-1383
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins Univ Press
- DOI
- 10.1353/HPU.2021.0138
- PMID
- 34421037
- ISSN
- 1049-2089
- eISSN
- 1548-6869
- Number of pages
- 12
- Grant note
- National Dental Association Foundation
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/01/2021
- Academic Unit
- Preventive and Community Dentistry
- Record Identifier
- 9984367732302771
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