The conceptual framework for a combined food literacy and physical activity intervention to optimize metabolic health among women of reproductive age in urban Uganda.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Metabolic health of urban Ugandans, mostly women, has increasingly become sub-optimal. As women are strategic for family behavioral change and do not meet WHO recommendations regarding dietary and physical activity (PA), there is an urgent need for science-based interventions to tackle unhealthy dietary and PA behaviors.

Objective

To develop a food literacy and PA promotion intervention to optimise metabolic health among women of reproductive age in urban Uganda.

Methodology

Steps 1- 6 of the Intervention Mapping protocol were used to design the intervention.

Results

Notable determinants from Step 1 were health/beauty paradox, nonfactual nutrition information, socio-cultural misconceptions around moderate PA, fruits, and vegetables. Others included g

SUBMITTER: Yiga P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8856934 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature