Assessing factors influencing adolescents’ dietary behaviours in urban Ethiopia using participatory photography
Objective: To assess factors influencing dietary behaviours of adolescents in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Design: Using the qualitative participatory method Photovoice, participants received training on the basics of Photovoice and took photographs related to (un)healthy eating in their environment. Tran...
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Nutrition Society
2021
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| author | Trübswasser, Ursula Baye, Kaleab Holdsworth, Michelle Loeffen, Megan Feskens, Edith J. Talsma, Elise F. |
| author_browse | Baye, Kaleab Feskens, Edith J. Holdsworth, Michelle Loeffen, Megan Talsma, Elise F. Trübswasser, Ursula |
| author_facet | Trübswasser, Ursula Baye, Kaleab Holdsworth, Michelle Loeffen, Megan Feskens, Edith J. Talsma, Elise F. |
| author_sort | Trübswasser, Ursula |
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| description | Objective: To assess factors influencing dietary behaviours of adolescents in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Design: Using the qualitative participatory method Photovoice, participants received training on the basics of Photovoice and took photographs related to (un)healthy eating in their environment. Transcripts of individual interviews, focus group discussions and photographs were coded for thematic analysis. Setting: One private and one public school located in the same, central neighbourhood in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to explore how school populations of different socio-economic status experience the same neighbourhood environment. Participants: Twenty-six adolescents aged 14–19 years old, of which there were seventeen girls and nine boys. 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. Conclusions: Concerns for food safety, hygiene and affordability are the dominating factors for adolescents’ food choices. These concerns, together with limited nutrition knowledge and preference for packaged foods, could make cheap, ultra-processed packaged foods more desirable. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1712892025-12-08T10:29:22Z Assessing factors influencing adolescents’ dietary behaviours in urban Ethiopia using participatory photography Trübswasser, Ursula Baye, Kaleab Holdsworth, Michelle Loeffen, Megan Feskens, Edith J. Talsma, Elise F. urban environment adolescents food safety nutrition processed foods food access consumer expenditure Objective: To assess factors influencing dietary behaviours of adolescents in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Design: Using the qualitative participatory method Photovoice, participants received training on the basics of Photovoice and took photographs related to (un)healthy eating in their environment. Transcripts of individual interviews, focus group discussions and photographs were coded for thematic analysis. Setting: One private and one public school located in the same, central neighbourhood in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to explore how school populations of different socio-economic status experience the same neighbourhood environment. Participants: Twenty-six adolescents aged 14–19 years old, of which there were seventeen girls and nine boys. 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. Conclusions: Concerns for food safety, hygiene and affordability are the dominating factors for adolescents’ food choices. These concerns, together with limited nutrition knowledge and preference for packaged foods, could make cheap, ultra-processed packaged foods more desirable. 2021-08 2025-01-29T12:57:58Z 2025-01-29T12:57:58Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/171289 en Open Access Nutrition Society Trübswasser, Ursula; Baye, Kaleab; Holdsworth, Michelle; Loeffen, Megan; Feskens, Edith J. M.; and Talsma, Elise F. 2021. Assessing factors influencing adolescents’ dietary behaviours in urban Ethiopia using participatory photography. Public Health Nutrition 24(12): 3615-3623. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980020002487 |
| spellingShingle | urban environment adolescents food safety nutrition processed foods food access consumer expenditure Trübswasser, Ursula Baye, Kaleab Holdsworth, Michelle Loeffen, Megan Feskens, Edith J. Talsma, Elise F. Assessing factors influencing adolescents’ dietary behaviours in urban Ethiopia using participatory photography |
| title | Assessing factors influencing adolescents’ dietary behaviours in urban Ethiopia using participatory photography |
| title_full | Assessing factors influencing adolescents’ dietary behaviours in urban Ethiopia using participatory photography |
| title_fullStr | Assessing factors influencing adolescents’ dietary behaviours in urban Ethiopia using participatory photography |
| title_full_unstemmed | Assessing factors influencing adolescents’ dietary behaviours in urban Ethiopia using participatory photography |
| title_short | Assessing factors influencing adolescents’ dietary behaviours in urban Ethiopia using participatory photography |
| title_sort | assessing factors influencing adolescents dietary behaviours in urban ethiopia using participatory photography |
| topic | urban environment adolescents food safety nutrition processed foods food access consumer expenditure |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/171289 |
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