Dietary Patterns among Vietnamese and Hispanic Immigrant Elementary School Children Participating in an After School Program.

ABSTRACT: Immigrants in the U.S. may encounter challenges of acculturation, including dietary habits, as they adapt to new surroundings. We examined Vietnamese and Hispanic immigrant children's American food consumption patterns in a convenience sample of 63 Vietnamese and Hispanic children in grades four to six who were attending an after school program. Children indicated the number of times they consumed each of 54 different American foods in the past week using a food frequency questionnaire. We ranked each food according to frequency of consumption, compared the intake of foods to the USDA Healthy Eating Pattern, and performed dietary pattern analysis. Since the data were not normally distributed we used two nonparametric tests to evaluate statistical significance: the Kruskal-Wallis tested for

SUBMITTER: McCrory MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5452190 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature