Associations of socioeconomic status indicators and migrant status with risk of a low vegetable and fruit consumption in children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It is important to provide insight in potential target groups for interventions to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in children's vegetable/fruit consumption. In earlier studies often single indicators of socioeconomic status (SES) or migrant status have been used. However, SES is a multidimensional concept and different indicators may measure different SES dimensions. Our objective is to explore multiple associations of SES indicators and migrant status with risk of a low vegetable/fruit consumption in a large multi-ethnic and socioeconomically diverse sample of children.

Methods

We included 5,010 parents of 4- to 12-year-olds from a Dutch public health survey administered in 2018. Cross-sectional associations of parental education, material deprivation, perceiv

SUBMITTER: Boelens M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8841774 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature