PREVALENCE, PATTERN AND DETERMINANTS OF FAST FOOD CONSUMPTION AMONG SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN IN JOS METROPOLIS, PLATEAU STATE, NIGERIA: AN IMPLICATION FOR NUTRITION EDUCATION
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v8.i3.2020.151Keywords:
Non-Communicable Disease, Fast Food, Disability Adjusted Life Years, Low and Middle-Income CountriesAbstract [English]
Motivation/Background: In 2001, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) accounted for 60 percent of 56 million deaths worldwide and 47% of global burden of disease. In all countries, evidence suggested underlying determinants of NCDs were largely same. These include increased consumption of rapidly processed energy-dense nutrient-poor foods high in fat, sugar, salt and reduced levels of physical activity. The objective of this study was to determine prevalence, pattern and determinants of fast foods consumption among school age children in Jos metropolis.
Method: In this study, we used descriptive cross-sectional study and included 347 mothers or care givers with children age 6 to 12 years in our sample size. We applied structured interviewer-administered questionnaire during data collection and analyzed the data with SPSS version 21.0.
Results: Prevalence of fast food consumption among school age children in Jos metropolis in the last one week is 91.1%. Knowledge of health risk associated with fast food consumption was 86.5%. Flour based fast food were most commonly consumed. We established an association between meal skipping, fast food advertisement and fast food consumption.
Conclusions: We recommend the need to focus public enlightenment on health risk associated with fast food consumption among school age children. Likewise, children should be encouraged to carry home-made food to school and legislation on fast food advertisement directed at children should be enacted.
Downloads
References
Jagadish C, D. Fast Food Consumption in Children [internet], 2015. [cited 20th August 2017] Available from:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282115918_Fast_Food_Consumption_in_Children_A_Review
2. Kaushik JS, Narang M, Parakh A. Fast food consumption in children. Indian Pediatrics 2011; (48):95-101. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13312-011-0035-8
3. World Health Organization. 10 facts on Non-communicable diseases [internet] 2017. [cited 24th August 2017]. Available from:
http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/noncommunicable_diseases/facts/en/index.htm
Global burden of diseases. Risk Factors Collaborators. Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioral, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. Lancet, 2016; 388(10053):1659-1724
Beaglehole R, Ebrahim S, Reddy S, et al. Prevention of chronic diseases: a call to action. Lancet 2007; (307) 2152–2157. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61700-0
Alan, A. et al WHO Global status report on non-communicable diseases [internet] 2010. [cited August 24th, 2017]. Available from: http://www.who.int/nmh/publications/ncd_report_full_en.pdf
Ebrahim S, Smeeth L. Non-communicable diseases in low and middle-income countries: a priority or a distraction? International Journal of Epidemiology. 2005; 34:961–966. [PubMed: 16150869] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyi188
Study of Consumption, behavior and awareness of fast food among University Hostlers. Asian Journal of Clinical medicine 2013; Vol. 5 (1): 1 -7. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3923/ajcn.2013.1.7
Vohra R, Bhardwaj P, Srivastava JP, Srivastava S, Vohra A. Overweight and obesity among school-going children of Lucknow city. Journal of Family and Community Medicine 2011.18:59-62 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4103/2230-8229.83369
Afolabi, W, A. Towobola, S.K. Oguntona, C.R. and Olayiwola I,O. Pattern of fast foods consumption and contribution to Nutrient intake of Nigerian university students. International journal of education and research 2013; 1 (5).
Smorlaski, M. World Health Organization. Study Proves need for regulation of fast food industries [internet], 2015. [cited 22nd August 2017] Available from https://foodtank.com/news/2015/08/
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
With the licence CC-BY, authors retain the copyright, allowing anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute, and/or copy their contribution. The work must be properly attributed to its author.
It is not necessary to ask for further permission from the author or journal board.
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
