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Associations between sedentary behaviours and dietary intakes among adolescents
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Fletcher, EA and McNaughton, SA and Crawford, D and Cleland, V and Della Gatta, J and Hatt, J and Dollman, J and Timperio, A, Associations between sedentary behaviours and dietary intakes among adolescents, Public Health Nutrition, 21, (6) pp. 1115-1122. ISSN 1368-9800 (2018) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1017/S136898001700372X
Abstract
Design: Cross-sectional study of adolescents. Participants self-reported durations of television viewing, computer use, playing electronic games (e-games), total sitting time, daily servings of fruits and vegetables, and frequency of consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB), diet beverages, fast foods and discretionary snacks. Logistic regression models were conducted to identify associations of screen-based behaviours, total screen time and total sitting time with dietary intakes.
Setting: Victoria, Australia.
Subjects: Adolescents (n 939) in School Year 11 (mean age 16·8 years).
Results: The results showed that watching television (≥2 h/d) was positively associated with consuming SSB and diet beverages each week and consuming discretionary snacks at least once daily, whereas computer use (≥2 h/d) was inversely associated with daily fruit and vegetable intake and positively associated with weekly fast-food consumption. Playing e-games (any) was inversely associated with daily vegetable intake and positively associated with weekly SSB consumption. Total screen (≥2 h/d) and sitting (h/d) times were inversely associated with daily fruit and vegetable consumption, with total screen time also positively associated with daily discretionary snack consumption and weekly consumption of SSB and fast foods.
Conclusions: Individual and aggregated screen-based behaviours, as well as total sitting time, are associated with a number of indicators of healthy and unhealthy dietary intake. Future research should explore whether reducing recreational screen time improves adolescents' diets.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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| Keywords: | adolescents, diet, screen time, sitting, snacks, television viewing |
| Research Division: | Health Sciences |
| Research Group: | Public health |
| Research Field: | Preventative health care |
| Objective Division: | Health |
| Objective Group: | Public health (excl. specific population health) |
| Objective Field: | Behaviour and health |
| UTAS Author: | Cleland, V (Associate Professor Verity Cleland) |
| ID Code: | 126119 |
| Year Published: | 2018 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 26 |
| Deposited By: | Menzies Institute for Medical Research |
| Deposited On: | 2018-05-23 |
| Last Modified: | 2019-01-17 |
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