Measures of Perceived Neighborhood Food Environments and Dietary Habits: A Systematic Review of Methods and Associations
Issued Date
2022-05-01
Resource Type
eISSN
20726643
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85128783251
Pubmed ID
35565756
Journal Title
Nutrients
Volume
14
Issue
9
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SCOPUS
Bibliographic Citation
Nutrients Vol.14 No.9 (2022)
Suggested Citation
Yamaguchi M., Praditsorn P., Purnamasari S.D., Sranacharoenpong K., Arai Y., Sundermeir S.M., Gittelsohn J., Hadi H., Nishi N. Measures of Perceived Neighborhood Food Environments and Dietary Habits: A Systematic Review of Methods and Associations. Nutrients Vol.14 No.9 (2022). doi:10.3390/nu14091788 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/83249
Title
Measures of Perceived Neighborhood Food Environments and Dietary Habits: A Systematic Review of Methods and Associations
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Abstract
Access to healthy food is a necessity for all people. However, there is still a lack of reviews on the assessment of respondent-based measures of neighborhood food environments (perceived food environments). The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate the measurement tools for perceived food environments by five dimensions of food access and to obtain the overview of their associations with dietary habits among people aged 18 years and older in middle-and high-income countries. Observational studies using perceived food environment measures were identified through a systematic review based on two databases for original studies published from 2010 to 2020. A total of 19 final studies were extracted from totally 2926 studies. Pertaining to the five dimensions of food access, 12 studies dealt with accessibility, 13 with availability, 6 with affordability, 10 with acceptability, 2 with accommodation, and 8 with a combination of two or more dimensions. Perceived healthy food environments were positively associated with healthy dietary habits in 17 studies, but 8 of them indicated statistically insignificant associations. In conclusion, this review found accessibility and availability to be major dimensions of perceived food environments. The relationship between healthy food environments and healthy diets is presumably positive and weak.