Neighbourhood food typologies, fast food outlet visitation and snack food purchasing among adolescents in Melbourne, Australia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Despite the increased attention on neighbourhood food environments and dietary behaviours, studies focusing on adolescents are limited. This study aims to characterise typologies of food environments surrounding adolescents and their associations with fast food outlet visitation and snack food purchasing to/from school.

Design

The number of food outlets (supermarket; green grocers; butcher/seafood/deli; bakeries; convenience stores; fast food/takeaways; café and restaurants) within a 1 km buffer from home was determined using a Geographic Information System. Adolescents' self-reported frequency of fast food outlet visitation and snack food purchasing to/from school. Latent Profile Analysis was conducted to identify typologies of the food environment. Cross-sectiona

SUBMITTER: Loh VH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9991780 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature