Traditional Individual and Environmental Determinants of Healthy Eating in Vihiga County, Western Kenya

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41340%2F22%3A92692" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41340/22:92692 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/14/2791" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/14/2791</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu14142791" target="_blank" >10.3390/nu14142791</a>

Result language

čeština

Original language name

Traditional Individual and Environmental Determinants of Healthy Eating in Vihiga County, Western Kenya

Original language description

Traditional ethnic groups in Kenya are unlikely to eat a healthy and diversified diet due to many individual and environmental factors, which may result in poor health status. Therefore, the determinants of eating behavior need to be identified prior to any public health action. For this study, focus group discussions (15 in total) in a doublelayer design were conducted, comprising adult men and women from 5 villages of Vihiga County. Questions explored knowledge, barriers and cues to action toward eating a healthy diet containing a variety of foods, including indigenous food species. We found that healthy eating concepts are known, however, several taboos that restrict food consumption reduce local diet quality in terms of diversity. Nutrition education is a cue to action. We identified several individual and environmental determinants of eating behavior in the studied communities. Public health action should focus on supporting healthy eating behaviors and refining some taboos beliefs.

Czech name

Traditional Individual and Environmental Determinants of Healthy Eating in Vihiga County, Western Kenya

Czech description

Traditional ethnic groups in Kenya are unlikely to eat a healthy and diversified diet due to many individual and environmental factors, which may result in poor health status. Therefore, the determinants of eating behavior need to be identified prior to any public health action. For this study, focus group discussions (15 in total) in a doublelayer design were conducted, comprising adult men and women from 5 villages of Vihiga County. Questions explored knowledge, barriers and cues to action toward eating a healthy diet containing a variety of foods, including indigenous food species. We found that healthy eating concepts are known, however, several taboos that restrict food consumption reduce local diet quality in terms of diversity. Nutrition education is a cue to action. We identified several individual and environmental determinants of eating behavior in the studied communities. Public health action should focus on supporting healthy eating behaviors and refining some taboos beliefs.

Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

—

OECD FORD branch

30308 - Nutrition, Dietetics

Project

—

Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Nutrients

ISSN

2072-6643

e-ISSN

2072-6643

Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

14

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

1-15

UT code for WoS article

000831907100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85133502024