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Factors influencing eating habits of adolescent girls at five levels of the socio-ecological model.
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Adolescence is a period between childhood and adulthood with eating habits often against the nutritional needs of adolescents. The present study used a socio-ecological approach to investigate personal and environmental factors influencing the eating habits of 15-to 19-years old Beninese urban schoolgirls. Eleven focus groups (n = 77) and seven ind...
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... five levels of the social-ecological model were all found to influence adolescent girls' eating habits (Figure 1). • Self-efficacy ...
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... Research on adolescent girls aged 15-19 years in Benin city concluded that factors influencing adolescent girls eating habits are knowledge, family income, self-efficacy, food appeal, family influence, food access and availability, food safety, health services, societal influence, media, and advertisement [21]. ...
Adolescence is a period of transitional development from children to adult women who are generally 10-21 years old. Adolescents has significant physical, psychosocial, and cognitive changes that can affect adolescent dietary behavior. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of affecting factors on unhealthy dietary behavior in adolescent girls. This research is an analytic observational study, with a cross-sectional design approach using primary data, which was conducted from April to June 2022. The sample is 135 adolescent girls aged 15-21 years old taken using multistage random sampling who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The data was obtained by filling out the questionnaire and analyzed by using the chi square test. The results showed that 56.3% of respondents had unhealthy dietary behavior. The results of bivariate analysis showed that nutritional status (p = 0.000; PR = 2.072) and body image (p = 0.000; PR = 0.559) had an influence on unhealthy dietary behavior. Meanwhile, knowledge (p=0,227), age (p=0,158), pocket money (p=0,452) and peers (p = 0.120) had no influence on unhealthy dietary behavior. It can be concluded that there is an influence of nutritional status and body image factors on unhealthy diet behavior.
