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Perceived neighborhood food access is associated with consumption of animal-flesh food, fruits and vegetables among mothers and young children in peri-urban Cambodia

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Title Perceived neighborhood food access is associated with consumption of animal-flesh food, fruits and vegetables among mothers and young children in peri-urban Cambodia
 
Creator Duong, M.-C.
Hung Nguyen-Viet
Grace, Delia
Ty, C.
Sokchea, H.
Sina, V.
Young, M.F.
 
Subject nutrition
animal products
fruit
vegetables
food access
consumption
mothers
children
 
Description Objective: To examine whether mothers' perceived neighborhood food access is associated with their own and their young children's consumption of animal-flesh food, fruits and vegetables in peri-urban areas of Cambodia. Design: A cross-sectional survey measured food consumption frequency and perceived neighborhood food access, the latter including six dimensions of food availability, affordability, convenience, quality, safety and desirability. Multivariate logistic regression was used to assess the association between food access and food consumption. Setting: Peri-urban districts of Phnom Penh and Siem Reap, Cambodia. Participants: 198 mothers of children between 6 to 24 months old. Results: Over 25% of the mothers and 40% of the children had low consumption (< once a day) of either animal-flesh food or fruits and vegetables. Compared with perceived high food access, perceived low food access was associated with an adjusted 5.6-fold and 4.3-fold greater odds of low animal-flesh food consumption among mothers (95% CI 2.54, 12.46) and children (95% CI 2.20, 8.60) respectively. Similarly, relative to perceived high access, perceived low food access was associated with 7.6-times and 5.1-times higher adjusted odds of low fruits and vegetables consumption among mothers (95% CI 3.22, 18.02) and children (95% CI 2.69, 9.83) respectively. Conclusions: Mothers' perceived neighborhood food access was an important predictor of their own and their young children's nutrient-rich food consumption in peri-urban Cambodia. Future work is needed to confirm our findings in other urban settings and examine the role of neighborhood food environment on the consumption of both nutrient-rich and nutrient-poor food.
 
Date 2022-03
2021-10-04T09:35:34Z
2021-10-04T09:35:34Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Duong, M.-C., Hung Nguyen-Viet, Grace, D., Ty, C., Sokchea, H., Sina, V. and Young, M.F. 2022. Perceived neighborhood food access is associated with consumption of animal-flesh food, fruits and vegetables among mothers and young children in peri-urban Cambodia. Public Health Nutrition 25(3): 717–728.
1368-9800
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/115293
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980021004122
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 717–728
 
Source Public Health Nutrition