In the U.S., youth experience health problems due to inadequate eating behaviors.
In terms of physical environmental factors and social environmental factors, youth
encounter problems with accessing good foods, as do other age groups. The purpose of
this study is to find the relationship between youths’ eating behavior, especially patterns
of visiting food resources, and the availability of food resources by food type and
socioeconomic background in Providence, Rhode Island. In order to test the relationship
between the availability of food resources and socioeconomic situation and children’s
eating behaviors, several statistical models are developed. The models are based on the
multinomial logistic regression model. Students’ activity data were obtained from a
survey in Teen Activity and Transportation Enterprise Project (TATE) under direction of
Dr. Talia McCray from September 2006 to May 2007. The food resources location data are collected from the Providence Plan and the Yellow Pages in Rhode Island. The
multinomial logistic model shows that the availability of healthy food resources within
walking distance from home, frequency to visit food resources, gender, employment
status, and race significantly affect access to unhealthy food resources (p < 0.05). The
availability of unhealthy foods within walking distance, the number of members living in
the household, the number of cars in household, students born in the U.S.A, and the
father born in the U.S.A, are not significant. In terms of availability of healthy foods
around the home location, number of healthy food resources matter. / text
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UTEXAS/oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/22577 |
| Date | 05 December 2013 |
| Creators | Yang, Dongwoo |
| Source Sets | University of Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | electronic |
| Rights | Copyright is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works., Restricted |
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