Western Fast Food Consumption Behavior and Nutritional Status of Senior High School Students at Nongkhai Province
Abstract
Western fast food refers to ready to eat that fried meat and easily prepared processed. These are high energy/fat/sodium and low vitamin/fiber. But the consumption of Western fast food has been increasing in popularity because of easy to fine and ready to eat. Western fast food behavior is a risk factor for disease. The objectives of this cross sectional descriptive study were to assess western fast food consumption behavior, nutritional status and to analyze the association between western fast food consumption behavior and nutritional status of senior high school students at Nongkhai Province. A total of 570 students were selected using simple random sampling with proportional to size. The data was collected by using questionnaire and measuring weight height and waist circumference. The association was analyzed using inferential statistics, Multiple Logistic Regression Analysis.
The study found that of the total 570 students, 66.0% were female, Mean of age was, 16 years old (S.D.=0.8) 37.0% of students consume western fast food for dinner as meal. Students preferred the most was fried chicken (70.9%). The most of students were normal nutritional status. For the association between western fast food consumption behavior and nutritional status, taking western fast food as breakfast/dinner (ORadjusted=1.63, 95%CI: 1.08-2.50), consuming in morning and lunch time (ORadjusted=1.96, 95%CI: 1.28-2.94), decision of consumption depending on friend/ parent (ORadjusted=1.84, 95%CI: 1.22-2.78) and do not eating hamburgers (ORadjusted= 2.04, 95%CI: 1.32-3.22), were associated with over nutrition. (p<0.05)
So, consumption behaviors as time and kind of western fast food were associated with over nutrition include intimate people. To be normal nutritional status, informative education about meal and nutritive values should be the students in order to make decision for having proper western fast food well as for other food.
