scholarly journals Contribution of Home and School Environment in Children’s Food Choice and Overweight/Obesity Prevalence in African Context: Evidence for Creating Enabling Healthful Food Environment

2020 ◽  
Vol Volume 11 ◽  
pp. 283-295
Author(s):  
Renatha Pacific ◽  
Haikael Martin ◽  
Kissa Kulwa ◽  
Pammla Petrucka
Keyword(s):  
School Environment ◽  
Food Environment ◽  
Food Choice ◽  
Obesity Prevalence ◽  
African Context ◽  
Home And School ◽  
Healthful Food

scholarly journals Contribution of home and school environment in children’s food choice and overweight/obesity prevalence in African context: Evidence for creating enabling healthful food environment

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renatha Mchongi Pacific ◽  
Haikael Martin ◽  
Kissa Kulwa ◽  
Pammla Petrucka
Keyword(s):  
School Children ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Obesity Prevalence ◽  
School Environments ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Dietary Choices ◽  
Home And School

Abstract Background Informed dietary choices during childhood is necessary for building good eating habits in the present and future generations. There is a significant increase globally in trends of over nutrition, specifically, overweight and obesity among school children in Africa calls for consideration of home and school environments. Methods A systematic literature search was conducted between October to December 2018 using Medline (PubMed), Directory of Open Access Journals and Google Scholar databases. Also, a grey literature review was conducted to identify and retrieve relevant documents and reports some of which from websites of international organizations. Major topics of interest were home and school food environments, dietary choices, school children and Africa. Out of 318 articles 30 were included in the full text read after meeting the inclusion criteria such as focusing on school children in Africa. Four reports from grey literature were also included. This review includes articles published between the 1st January 2008 and 30th June 2018. Results Available data from reviewed articles showed that obesity prevalence among school children in Africa is on the rise and ranges from less than 5% to more than 30% across countries. Few articles investigated the contribution of home and school environments on school children’s food choices which necessitates more research in this area. Conclusion Therefore, this review suggests that for effective implementation of childhood overweight and obesity reduction strategies, investigation of home and school determinants of children’s food choices is imperative.

scholarly journals Using a global food environment framework to understand relationships with food choice in diverse low- and middle-income countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 100511
Author(s):  
Shilpa V. Constantinides ◽  
Christopher Turner ◽  
Edward A. Frongillo ◽  
Shiva Bhandari ◽  
Ligia I. Reyes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Environment ◽  
Food Choice ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Global Food ◽  
Low And Middle Income

Youth Speak Out on School Food Environments

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-202
Author(s):  
Kelsey Gangemi ◽  
Roxanne Dupuis ◽  
Elizabeth FitzGerald ◽  
Rosemary Frasso ◽  
Sara Solomon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Environment ◽  
Food Choice ◽  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
School Personnel ◽  
School Nurses ◽  
Photo Elicitation ◽  
Food Environments ◽  
School Food ◽  
Vending Machines ◽  
Student Input

In Philadelphia, over 40% of youth are overweight or obese. The objective in this assessment was to learn about urban residents’ perspectives regarding the local food environment and its impact on eating behaviors. Using photo-elicitation, 20 adolescents reflected on their food environments through photographs and corresponding interviews. Without specific prompting from interviewers, every participant raised concerns about their school food environments, which they commonly found to be unhealthy and unappealing. Participants’ responses reflected four themes: (1) mixed reviews regarding the healthfulness of school vending machines, (2) lunch from home versus lunch from school, (3) factors that influenced food choice at school, and (4) critiques of school food environments. Students embraced the photo-elicitation approach as a way to convey their concerns and to suggest opportunities for improvements. School nurses, who are trusted by students and school personnel, are well-positioned to solicit student input and advocate for healthier school food environments.

scholarly journals WHY DO PEOPLE DIFFER IN THEIR ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION? A NUCLEAR TWIN FAMILY STUDY

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 433-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lea Klassen ◽  
Eike F. Eifler ◽  
Anke Hufer ◽  
Rainer Riemann
Keyword(s):  
Achievement Motivation ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Environmental Influences ◽  
Twin Studies ◽  
Genetic Influences ◽  
Parental Home ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Home And School

Although many previous studies have emphasized the role of environmental factors, such as parental home and school environment, on achievement motivation, classical twin studies suggest that both additive genetic influences and non-shared environmental influences explain interindividual differences in achievement motivation. By applying a Nuclear Twin Family Design on the data of the German nationally representative of TwinLife study, we analyzed genetic and environmental influences on achievement motivation in adolescents and young adults. As expected, the results provided evidence for the impact of additive genetic variation, non-additive genetic influences, as well as twin specific shared environmental influences. The largest amount of variance was attributed to non-shared environmental influences, showing the importance of individual experiences in forming differences in achievement motivation. Overall, we suggest a revision of models and theories that explain variation in achievement motivation by differences in familial socialization only.

Environment

2016 ◽  
pp. 169-174
Author(s):  
Donald W. Winnicott
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Intense Pain ◽  
Small Children ◽  
Latency Age Children ◽  
Home Life ◽  
Parental Couple ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Home And School ◽  
Latency Age

In this chapter, Winnicott proposes that, in maturity, the environment is something individuals can contribute to and take responsibility for. Adolescents need the stability of the home and school environment against which to grow and rebel. Latency-age children need to be able to take a stable environment for granted and may suffer if home life breaks down. During pre-latency, children need a safe parental couple and home to work out the aspects of the triangular situation. Winnicott refers to many of the disturbances and disruptions of normal family life and their impact on the growing child, including the disturbing experiences of hospitalisation for small children. Emotional growth with an appropriate and sensitive mothering figure enables the child to adapt and become emotionally integrated. Very early narcissistic states and very early dependence—from which independence may follow—are also described. Regression to an earlier stage of dependence may occur during psychotherapy and may have a healing quality if the intense pain associated with dependence can be tolerated.

scholarly journals Children-and-Partner's Food Preferences and Role of Woman as Caregiver: Key Elements of Food Choice Linked to Social Environment in a Consumer Population of Hermosillo City

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. 174-174
Author(s):  
Ana Contreras Navarro ◽  
Paulina Blanco Cervantes ◽  
Alma Contreras Paniagua ◽  
Gloria Portillo Abril ◽  
Guadalupe Álvarez Gordillo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Food Environment ◽  
Food Choice ◽  
Food Preferences ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Food And Nutrition Security ◽  
Nutrition Security ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
Consumer Population ◽  
Community Food Environment

Abstract Objectives The main objective was to identify determinants of food choice linked to the community food environment in a marginalized consumer population in the city of Hermosillo, Mexico. The specific objectives were to develop group interviews with women and to frame the data analysis within the field of research in food and nutrition security. Methods In this qualitative study design, we employed the focus group technique to ask participants “How do you decide which foods to obtain for your family's diet?”. To investigate further we asked, “What are those reasons that explain the selection of those foods?” Women who regularly attended a community center localized in a neighborhood with a very high grade of urban marginalization participated in the focus groups. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and three distinct methods were used to perform analysis: (1) content analysis (2) data organization, using software QSR NVivo, in relation to five dimensions of food and nutrition security: affordability, accessibility, acceptability, food quality, and care; and (3) triangulation between five co-authors (A.C.N., P.B.C., A.D.C.P., G.E.P.A., and M.I.O.V.). Results From May to November of 2019, four focus groups were conducted by a single facilitator in two community centers of Hermosillo (n = 27 participants). Reasons that explained the participant's food choices within the community food environment and that showed the highest number of mentions in the interviews were identified in relation to acceptability factors: children's food preferences, partner's food preferences, all household-members’ food preferences. The following extract reflects the main study findings: “When I can't do a certain thing it is because it's very expensive, but if there is a way, even if it's a little… for example, my middle-aged son really likes peppers and he eats them alone. So, I know that when I go to the store, I have to bring at least one, for him to eat other things.” Conclusions The study of food choice in this group of women denotes that their role as caregiver of food and nutrition in relation to their children-and-partner's food preferences are key elements of food decision-making processes, preceding the socioeconomic factors and constraints, they certainly face. Funding Sources Institutional small grant C.I.A.D., A.C.

scholarly journals A Picture of the Healthful Food Environment in Two Diverse Urban Cities

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. EHI.S3594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca E. Lee ◽  
Katie M. Heinrich ◽  
Ashley V. Medina ◽  
Gail R. Regan ◽  
Jacqueline Y. Reese-Smith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Environment ◽  
Healthful Food

scholarly journals The Trouble with Boys: Social Influences and the Gender Gap in Disruptive Behavior

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne Bertrand ◽  
Jessica Pan
Keyword(s):  
Disruptive Behavior ◽  
Home Environment ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Social Influences ◽  
Single Mother ◽  
School Environments ◽  
Early School ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Home And School

This paper explores the importance of the home and school environments in explaining the gender gap in disruptive behavior. We document large differences in the gender gap across key features of the home environment—boys do especially poorly in broken families. In contrast, we find little impact of the early school environment on noncognitive gaps. Differences in endowments explain a small part of boys' noncognitive deficit in single-mother families. More importantly, noncognitive returns to parental inputs differ markedly by gender. Broken families are associated with worse parental inputs, and boys' noncognitive development, unlike that of girls', appears extremely responsive to such inputs. (JEL I21, J12, J13, J16, Z13)

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