Anthropometric Indices, Food Choices and Eating Habits of Adolescents in Secondary Schools in Bayelsa State

Donald-Ase Mary; Olivia Afam-Anene

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Anthropometric Indices, Food Choices and Eating Habits of Adolescents in Secondary Schools in Bayelsa State

Donald-Ase Mary, Olivia Afam-Anene

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Background: Eating habits refers to why and how people eat, which foods they eat and with whom they eat, as well as the ways people obtain, store, use and discard food. Objectives: The objectives of this study are to assess the anthropometric indices of adolescents in Bayelsa State, their food choices, eating habits and the factors affecting their food selections. Methods: A simple random sampling technique was used to select 500 adolescents from ten Secondary Schools in three Local Government Areas of Bayelsa State. Students were selected from the Senior Secondary School Classes (from SSS 1 to 3). A well structured and validated questionnaire was used to obtain information on the adolescents’ food choices and eating habits. Anthropometric measurements of weight and height were carried out using standard procedures. Information obtained was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS Version 20) to provide descriptive information (percentages, mean± SD) for all the study variables. The relationship between food choices and nutritional status and eating habits and nutritional status were tested using p-value at 5% level of significance Results: Results show that 11.4% of the adolescents were under weight, 87.4% were of normal weight and then 0.8% were overweight. Few of the respondents reported that availability, accessibility and convenience affect their families eating habits and food choices, while 5% reported that family religion affect their eating habits. Also the result of the correlation analysis is that the coefficient of correlation is -0.120, this indicates an inverse very low relationship between the adolescents’ food choices and eating habits. Conclusion: The study revealed that the factors affecting the food selection of the respondents were the family’s income, peer groups, food likes, food dislikes and parental control. Also, that taste, texture, appearance and the smell of food are responsible for some of the respondent’s food selections while cost of food affects. Also, opinion that their food selections were affected by convenience and the time for food preparation Few (2%) of the respondents indicated that their body image affect their food selection and 4.6% were of the opinion that their religion affects their food selection. Culture also affects 5.6% of the respondent’s food selections.

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Donald-Ase Mary

Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Imo State University, Owerri, Nigeria
Olivia Afam-Anene

Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Imo State University, Owerri, Nigeria

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