Association between food availability and young people's fruits and vegetables consumption: understanding the mediation role of the theory of planned behaviour

Objective: To evaluate the relationship between fruits and vegetables (F&V) availability at home and young people's F&V consumption behaviour, and how the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) constructs could potentially mediate the relationship. Design: Cross-sectional face-to-face surv...

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Main Authors: Lwin, May Oo, Malik, Shelly, Lau, Jerrald
Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1608712023-03-05T15:58:10Z Association between food availability and young people's fruits and vegetables consumption: understanding the mediation role of the theory of planned behaviour Lwin, May Oo Malik, Shelly Lau, Jerrald Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information Social sciences::Communication Food Availability Home Food Objective: To evaluate the relationship between fruits and vegetables (F&V) availability at home and young people's F&V consumption behaviour, and how the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) constructs could potentially mediate the relationship. Design: Cross-sectional face-to-face survey questionnaire to assess the TPB constructs and home food availability assessed using open inventories method. F&V availability was categorised into low and high levels based on median split. Setting: Singapore. Participants: Two hundred and ten households (each consisting one parent-child pair) recruited via stratified cluster sampling with child participants ranging from 9 to 16 years of age. Results: Mediation analyses were conducted using structural equation modelling. The relationship between home F&V availability and F&V consumption behaviour did not have a significant direct association, but there were significant indirect effects through the routes of perceived behavioural control (PBC) and intention as well as attitude and intention. Specifically, higher level of F&V availability at home was related to more positive PBC and attitude towards F&V, and subsequently greater intention to consume F&V and higher consumption of F&V. Conclusions: Parents should make F&V more readily available at home as increased exposure to F&V could be related to enhanced liking, sense of control and intention to consume F&V and facilitate children's healthy diet. National Medical Research Council (NMRC) Published version This study was supported by the National Medical Research Council, Singapore (grant no. NMRC/HSRG/0046/2013). 2022-08-05T01:09:46Z 2022-08-05T01:09:46Z 2020 Journal Article Lwin, M. O., Malik, S. & Lau, J. (2020). Association between food availability and young people's fruits and vegetables consumption: understanding the mediation role of the theory of planned behaviour. Public Health Nutrition, 23(12), 2155-2164. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1368980019005263 1368-9800 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/160871 10.1017/S1368980019005263 32450936 2-s2.0-85085562485 12 23 2155 2164 en NMRC/HSRG/0046/2013 Public Health Nutrition © 2020 The Authors. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. application/pdf
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Food Availability
Home Food
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Food Availability
Home Food
Lwin, May Oo
Malik, Shelly
Lau, Jerrald
Association between food availability and young people's fruits and vegetables consumption: understanding the mediation role of the theory of planned behaviour
description Objective: To evaluate the relationship between fruits and vegetables (F&V) availability at home and young people's F&V consumption behaviour, and how the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) constructs could potentially mediate the relationship. Design: Cross-sectional face-to-face survey questionnaire to assess the TPB constructs and home food availability assessed using open inventories method. F&V availability was categorised into low and high levels based on median split. Setting: Singapore. Participants: Two hundred and ten households (each consisting one parent-child pair) recruited via stratified cluster sampling with child participants ranging from 9 to 16 years of age. Results: Mediation analyses were conducted using structural equation modelling. The relationship between home F&V availability and F&V consumption behaviour did not have a significant direct association, but there were significant indirect effects through the routes of perceived behavioural control (PBC) and intention as well as attitude and intention. Specifically, higher level of F&V availability at home was related to more positive PBC and attitude towards F&V, and subsequently greater intention to consume F&V and higher consumption of F&V. Conclusions: Parents should make F&V more readily available at home as increased exposure to F&V could be related to enhanced liking, sense of control and intention to consume F&V and facilitate children's healthy diet.
author2 Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
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Lwin, May Oo
Malik, Shelly
Lau, Jerrald
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Malik, Shelly
Lau, Jerrald
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title Association between food availability and young people's fruits and vegetables consumption: understanding the mediation role of the theory of planned behaviour
title_short Association between food availability and young people's fruits and vegetables consumption: understanding the mediation role of the theory of planned behaviour
title_full Association between food availability and young people's fruits and vegetables consumption: understanding the mediation role of the theory of planned behaviour
title_fullStr Association between food availability and young people's fruits and vegetables consumption: understanding the mediation role of the theory of planned behaviour
title_full_unstemmed Association between food availability and young people's fruits and vegetables consumption: understanding the mediation role of the theory of planned behaviour
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