Unhealthy food outlets and outdoor advertisements in urban South African primary school students' food environments.

ABSTRACT: Children's exposure to outlets selling, and outdoor advertisements marketing, unhealthy foods is an important risk factor for obesity. Yet few policies address the food retail and/or outdoor advertising environment, and research about children's perceptions is limited, especially in low- and middle-income countries. We used a participatory, multimodal visual/verbal approach to explore urban-dwelling South African primary school students' perceptions of unhealthy food outlets and outdoor advertisements they encountered on their journeys to school. Forty-one grade 7 students aged 11-14 years participated in drawing and/or photography activities and elicitation discussions. A mixed-methods, triangulated analysis involving the content analysis and extraction of data from research artefacts (33

SUBMITTER: Brear MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11579604 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature