Investigating obesity risk-reduction behaviours and psychosocial factors in Chinese Americans

Liou, Doreen; Bauer, Kathleen; Bai, Yeon

doi:10.1177/1757913913486874

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“…reported that among the structures related to health belief model, the perceived barriers and self-efficacy were the only predicting factors for nutritional behavior among Asian adults residing in USA. [ 30 ] Consistent with the results of the present study, their results showed that besides existing barriers such as lack of social support in access to beneficial nutrients and adequate information to attain enough knowledge about healthy nutrition, understanding the threat, resulting from inappropriate nutrition, has no effect on nutritional behavior. The relationship between nutritional attitude and mothers’ educational level, in addition to the lack of relationship between psychological factors with the economic status and fathers’ educational level indicated the mothers’ key role in providing appropriate nutritional motivation among the adolescents and improvement of their nutritional conditions.…”

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“…Therefore, it is likely that after adolescents’ dependence on families’ provision of healthy foods disappears and when they enter the teenage period and adulthood, their nutritional pattern may change under new conditions. In conditions of independency for food provision, adolescents’ interpersonal factors such as their attitude[ 29 ] and understanding of the threat[ 30 ] may act as more important determinants for selection of their favorite food.…”

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The relation between intra- and interpersonal factors and food consumption level among Iranian adolescent girls

Kazemi

Zahraei

Nazarian

2016

Iranian J Nursing Midwifery Res

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Background:Poor nutrition habits in adolescent girls endanger their health and are followed by serious systemic diseases in adulthood and negative effects on their reproductive health. To design health promotion programs, understanding of the intra- and interpersonal associated factors with treatment is essential, and this was the aim of this study.Materials and Methods:This cross-sectional study was conducted on 193 adolescent girls of age 11-15 years. Random cluster selection was used for sample selection. Food group consumption pattern was assessed by food frequency questionnaire. Also, perceived susceptibility/severity and nutritional attitude as intrapersonal factors and social support as interpersonal factor were assessed. The relationship between food group consumption level and nutritional attitude and perceived treat (susceptibility/severity) as intrapersonal factors and perceived social support as interpersonal factor were assessed by linear multiple regression and analysis of variance (ANOVA).Results:Results showed that the level of sweetmeat food consumption was related to perceived social support (P = 0.03) and nutritional attitude (P = 0.01) negatively. In addition, an inverse and significant association was found between the level of junk food intake and informational perceived social support (P = 0.004). The association between the level of fast food intake and the perceived parental social support for preparation of healthy food was negatively significant (P = 0.03). Breakfast consumption was related to nutritional attitude (P = 0.03), social support (P = 0.03), and perceived severity (P = 0.045).Conclusions:Results revealed that perceived social support and nutritional attitude are the important and related factors in dietary intake among girls, and promotion of social support and modification of nutritional attitude may lead to healthy nutritional behaviors among them.

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The relation between intra- and interpersonal factors and food consumption level among Iranian adolescent girls

Kazemi

Zahraei

Nazarian

2016

Iranian J Nursing Midwifery Res

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“…Equally important, improvements in knowledge of nutrition and health effects of exercise, proves to be a significant predictor of all three outcome measures. Because the Asian diet is generally thought to be healthy, most Asian communities do not think about aspects of their diet that are unhealthy and do not consider changes that may have occurred in their diets and the diets of their children since moving to the US [43,44,45]. Changing these perceptions to improve knowledge of healthier eating and exercise must be a key component of effective health campaigns.…”

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The Evaluation of IDEAL-REACH Program to Improve Nutrition among Asian American Community Members in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area

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Zhu

Shive

et al. 2019

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Objective Asian Americans’ food purchasing, cooking, and eating patterns are not well understood. Greater insight into these behaviors is urgently needed to guide public health interventions of dietary behaviors in this population. The present study aims to examine the effects of a community-level intervention on food purchasing and preparation, nutrition knowledge, and health awareness in Asian Americans. Methods From 2015 to 2017, we conducted the Improving Diets with an Ecological Approach for Lifestyle (IDEAL-REACH) intervention to increase access to healthy food or beverage options for the Asian-American population in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. Participants (1110 at pre- and 1098 at post-assessment) were recruited from 31 community-based organizations (CBOs). We assessed Asian Americans’ dietary behaviors, nutrition knowledge, and awareness of heart health. Results The results of pre-post intervention comparisons showed that the IDEAL-REACH intervention was successful in promoting whole grains consumption, reducing sodium consumption, and raising knowledge and awareness related to nutrition and heart health. Conclusions To our knowledge, this is one of the first initiatives in the U.S. to engage CBOs to promote healthier dietary behaviors. The findings show that CBOs serve as a powerful platform for community-level interventions to improve healthy nutrition behaviors in Asian-American communities.

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“…no. 55rich in fruits and vegetables as the mean of promoting healthy living.The behavior to reduce the risk of obesity risk in relation to psychosocial factors was recently investigated in USand foreign-born Chinese Americans[98]. The main reasons for the prevention of adopting obesity riskreducing behavior related to the convenience of consuming fast food meals, cost, lack of time to prepare home-cooked meals, and the physical environment of unhealthy food.…”

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Epigenetics And Nutrition

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2015

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Epigenetic mechanisms based on DNA methylation, histone modifications and RNA interference have recently showed important association to the development of a wide variety of diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular, metabolic, skin, autoimmune diseases and neurologic disorders. In the context of preventive aspects, the importance of nutrition on epigenetic function has been revealed. Therefore, drastic changes in dietary modifications may contribute to reduced disease risk. For instance, dietary intervention has been showed to affect DNA methylation in Alzheimer's disease patients. Moreover, maternal high-fat diet can regulate gene expression through promoter histone modifications. Most importantly, RNA interference and particularly micro-RNA mediated regulation of gene expression has been linked to disease development.Remarkably, dietary intake has been demonstrated to significantly affect various miRNAs and their regulation on gene function. In this review, the relationship between epigenetics and disease and development of drugs based on epigenetic targets is presented as well as the influence of dietary intake on epigenetic mechanisms and its effect on disease prevention and therapy will be discussed.

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Investigating obesity risk-reduction behaviours and psychosocial factors in Chinese Americans

Cited by 9 publications

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The relation between intra- and interpersonal factors and food consumption level among Iranian adolescent girls

The relation between intra- and interpersonal factors and food consumption level among Iranian adolescent girls

The Evaluation of IDEAL-REACH Program to Improve Nutrition among Asian American Community Members in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area

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