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Adolescent television viewing and unhealthy snack food consumption: the mediating role of home availability of unhealthy snack foods

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posted on 2016-02-12, 14:38 authored by Natalie PearsonNatalie Pearson, Stuart Biddle, Lauren Williams, Anthony Worsley, David Crawford, Kylie Ball
Objective: To examine whether home availability of energy-dense snack foods mediates the association between television viewing (TV) and energy-dense snack consumption among adolescents. Design: Cross-sectional. Setting: Secondary schools in Victoria, Australia. Subjects: Adolescents (n=2984) from Years 7 and 9 of secondary school completed a web- based survey, between September 2004 and July 2005, assessing their energy-dense snack food consumption, school day and weekend day TV viewing and home availability of energy-dense snack foods. Results: School day and weekend day TV viewing were positively associated with energy-dense snack consumption among adolescent boys (β=0.003, p<0.001) and girls (β=0.03, p<0.001). Furthermore, TV viewing (school and weekend day) were positively associated with home availability of energy-dense snack foods among adolescent boys and girls and home availability of energy-dense snack foods was positively associated with energy-dense snack food consumption among boys (β=0.26, p<0.001) and girls (β=0.28, p<0.001). Home availability partly mediated the association between TV viewing and energy-dense snack consumption. Conclusions: The results of the present study suggest that TV viewing has a significant role to play in adolescent unhealthy eating behaviours. Future research should assess the efficacy of methods to reduce adolescent energy-dense snack food consumption by targeting parents to reduce home availability of energy-dense foods, and on reducing TV viewing behaviours of adolescents.

Funding

This work was supported by the Australia Research Council (DP0452044), the William Buckland Foundation, a National Medical Research Council Senior Research Fellowship (47951

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  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

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PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION

Volume

17

Issue

2

Pages

317 - 323 (7)

Citation

PEARSON, N. ...et al., 2014. Adolescent television viewing and unhealthy snack food consumption: the mediating role of home availability of unhealthy snack foods. Public Health Nutrition, 17(2), pp. 317-323.

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© The Authors. Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP)

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  • SMUR (Submitted Manuscript Under Review)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2014

Notes

This paper was accepted for publication on 29th October 2012:

ISSN

1368-9800

Language

  • en

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