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Factors influencing dietary behaviours in urban food environments in Africa: a systematic mapping review.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The rural food environment and its association with diet, nutrition status, and health outcomes in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs): a systematic review.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Factors affecting fruit and vegetable consumption and purchase behavior of adults in sub-Saharan Africa: A rapid review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Pooled it
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- Factors influencing obesogenic behaviours of adolescent girls and women in low- and middle-income countries: A qualitative evidence synthesis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Pooled it
- Quality Improvement Initiatives in Pediatric Emergency Care in Low-Resource Settings: Addressing Patient Safety and Outcomes.International journal of pediatrics · 2026Review
- Concepts of healthy and environmentally sustainable diets clash with a life in transition - Findings from a qualitative study in urban Burkina Faso.Global health action · 2025Article
- Non-Communicable Disease Burden and Dietary Determinants in Women of Reproductive Age in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Understanding the child feeding decisions among urban parents: a qualitative study in addis ababa, Ethiopia.BMC nutrition · 2025Article
- How Children's Experiences and Perceptions of Their School Food Environment Influence Their Food-Related Decisions In-School in Urban Ghana.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Article
- Cross-Sectional Study on the Influence of Religion on the Consumption of Ultra-Processed Food in Spanish Schoolchildren in North Africa.Nutrients · 2025Article
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- Characterizing diet quality indicators and their demographic determinants among adults: a population-based study in Northern Ghana.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Adolescents' dietary patterns, their drivers and association with double burden of malnutrition in adolescents: a cross-sectional study in Kenya's urban slums.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2024Article
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- Metabolomic and Physiological Effects of a Cardiorenal Protective Diet Intervention in African American Adults with Chronic Kidney Disease.Metabolites · 2024Article
- Food and nutrient intake among non-pregnant, non-lactating women of reproductive age of Mbeya in Tanzania: A repeated 24-hour dietary recall.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- The influence of food environments on dietary behaviour and nutrition in Southeast Asia: A systematic scoping review.Nutrition and health · 2023Article
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- Individual-level drivers of dietary behaviour in adolescents and women through the reproductive life course in urban Ghana: A Photovoice study.Maternal & child nutrition · 2022Article
- Availability of healthy and unhealthy foods in modern retail outlets located in selected districts of Greater Accra Region, Ghana.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo identify factors influencing dietary behaviours in urban food environments in Africa and identify areas for future research.
designWe systematically reviewed published/grey literature (protocol CRD4201706893). Findings were compiled into a map using a socio-ecological model on four environmental levels: individual, social, physical and macro.
settingUrban food environments in Africa.
participantsStudies involving adolescents and adults (11-70 years, male/female).
resultsThirty-nine studies were included (six adolescent, fifteen adolescent/adult combined and eighteen adult). Quantitative methods were most common (twenty-eight quantitative, nine qualitative and two mixed methods). Studies were from fifteen African countries. Seventy-seven factors influencing dietary behaviours were identified, with two-thirds at the individual level (45/77). Factors in the social (11/77), physical (12/77) and macro (9/77) environments were investigated less. Individual-level factors that specifically emerged for adolescents included self-esteem, body satisfaction, dieting, spoken language, school attendance, gender, body composition, pubertal development, BMI and fat mass. Studies involving adolescents investigated social environment-level factors more, for example, sharing food with friends. The physical food environment was more commonly explored in adults, for example, convenience/availability of food. Macro-level factors associated with dietary behaviours were food/drink advertising, religion and food prices. Factors associated with dietary behaviour were broadly similar for men and women.
conclusionsThe dominance of studies exploring individual-level factors suggests a need for research to explore how social, physical and macro-level environments drive dietary behaviours of adolescents and adults in urban Africa. More studies are needed for adolescents and men, and studies widening the geographical scope to encompass all African countries.
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