Publication: Dietary health behaviour and beliefs among university students from 26 low, middle and high income countries
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2015-01-01
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09647058
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Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Vol.24, No.4 (2015), 744-752
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Supa Pengpid, Karl Peltzer Dietary health behaviour and beliefs among university students from 26 low, middle and high income countries. Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Vol.24, No.4 (2015), 744-752. doi:10.6133/apjcn.2015.24.4.21 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/36869
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Dietary health behaviour and beliefs among university students from 26 low, middle and high income countries
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The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of six healthy dietary behaviours and associated factors in university students from 26 low, middle and high income countries. In a cross-sectional survey, we used a self-administered questionnaire (largely based on the European Health and Behaviour Survey) among 19503 undergraduate university students (mean age 20.8, Standard deviation=2.8, age range of 16-30 years) from 27 universities in 26 countries. Results indicated that for a total of six healthy dietary behaviours, overall, students scored a mean of 2.8 healthy dietary behaviours. More female than male students indicated healthy dietary behaviours. In multivariate linear regression among men and women, living in an upper middle income or high income country, dieting to lose weight, the high importance of dietary health benefits, high non-organized religious activity, high physical activity and currently a non-tobacco user were associated with the healthy dietary behaviour index. The study found a high prevalence of relatively poor dietary healthy behaviours.