School and community drivers of child diets in two Arab cities : the SCALE protocol and innovative tools to assess children’s food environments
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2022-07-20
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In the context of the rapid nutrition transition experienced by middle-income countries of the Arab region, children and adolescent’s food choices and dietary behaviors are early risk factors for the development of non-communicable diseases. Assessment of factors influencing food choices among this age group is challenging and is usually based on self-reported data, which are prone to information and recall bias. As the popularity of technologies and video gaming platforms increases, opportunities arise to use these tools to collect data on variables that affect food choice, dietary intake, and associated outcomes. This protocol paper describes the SCALE study (School and community drivers of child diets in Arab cities; identifying levers for intervention) which aims to explore the environments at the level of households, schools and communities in which children’s food choices are made and consequently identify barriers and enablers to healthy food choices within these environments.
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SCHOOL AGE POPULATION, NUTRITION, DIET, MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES, LEBANON, TUNISIA, MIDDLE EAST, NORTH OF SAHARA