The Cross-Sectional Association between Diet Quality and Depressive Symptomology amongst Fijian Adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the relationship between diet quality and depressive symptomology amongst a community-based sample of Fijian adolescents.

Methods

Participants included 7,237 adolescents (52.6% girls; mean age 15.6 years) at baseline (2005) and 2,948 (56% girls; mean age 17.4 years) at follow-up (2007/2008), from the Pacific Obesity Prevention in Communities Project. Intervention schools (n = 7) were selected from Nasinu, near Suva on the main Fijian island Viti Levu, and comparison schools (n = 11) were chosen from towns on the opposite, west side of the island. A dietary questionnaire was used to measure diet quality. Factor analysis clustered dietary variables into two unique and independent factors, referred to as healthy diet quality and unhealthy diet quality. Depr

SUBMITTER: Sinclair R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4999057 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature