ArticlePublic health nutrition2020
Comparing food desert residents with non-food desert residents on grocery shopping behaviours, diet and BMI: results from a propensity score analysis.
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- The Risk of Pediatric Overweight and Children's Objectively Measured Sedentary Behaviors and Physical Activity by Area of Residence.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The Impact of Living in a Low Food Access/Low Income Area on Obstructive Sleep Apnea.Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery · 2025Article
- Examining disparities in PFAS plasma concentrations: Impact of drinking water contamination, food access, proximity to industrial facilities and superfund sites.Environmental research · 2025Article
- A Cross-Sectional Study of Grocery Shopping Factors of Importance among Food-Insecure African Americans.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Food desert residence has limited impact on veteran fecal microbiome composition: a U.S. Veteran Microbiome Project study.mSystems · 2023Article
- Comparison of neighborhood deprivation index and food desert status as environmental predictors of early childhood obesity.International public health journal · 2022Article
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objectiveTo determine whether residence in a US Department of Agriculture-designated food desert is associated with perceived access to healthy foods, grocery shopping behaviours, diet and BMI among a national sample of primary food shoppers.
designData for the present study came from a self-administered cross-sectional survey administered in 2015. Residential addresses of respondents were geocoded to determine whether their census tract of residence was a designated food desert or not. Inverse probability of treatment-weighted regression was used to assess whether residence in a food desert was associated with dependent variables of interest.
settingUSA.
participantsOf 4942 adult survey respondents, residential addresses of 75·0 % (n 3705) primary food shoppers were included in the analysis.
resultsResidence in a food desert (11·1 %, n 411) was not significantly associated with perceived access to healthy foods, most grocery shopping behaviours or dietary behaviour, but was significantly associated with primarily shopping at a superstore or supercentre v. a large grocery store (OR = 1·32; 95 % CI 1·02, 1·71; P = 0·03) and higher BMI (b = 1·14; 95 % CI 0·36, 1·93; P = 0·004).
conclusionsResults suggest that food desert residents shop at different food stores and have higher BMI than non-food desert residents.
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