Food security and BMI status among adolescents in Kuantan, Pahang

Background/Aims: Food security can be defined as the availability of and accessibility to food, acquired in an acceptable means at any given time and place in a way that could maintain health and wellbeing. This study aimed to identify the food security status and the nutritional status of adolescen...

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Main Authors:	Mohd Abu Bakar, Wan Azdie, Yahya, Noor Atirah, Sidek, Suriati, Ab Ghalib, Halimatun Saadiah, Mat Ya, Roselawati, Abdul Rahman, Rozlin
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Language:	English
Published:	Karger Publishers 2019
Subjects:	RA Public aspects of medicine TX341 Nutrition. Foods and food supply
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spelling	iium-740032019-09-11T07:41:04Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/74003/ Food security and BMI status among adolescents in Kuantan, Pahang Mohd Abu Bakar, Wan Azdie Yahya, Noor Atirah Sidek, Suriati Ab Ghalib, Halimatun Saadiah Mat Ya, Roselawati Abdul Rahman, Rozlin RA Public aspects of medicine TX341 Nutrition. Foods and food supply Background/Aims: Food security can be defined as the availability of and accessibility to food, acquired in an acceptable means at any given time and place in a way that could maintain health and wellbeing. This study aimed to identify the food security status and the nutritional status of adolescents and to determine the associated factors. Methods: Five hundred and thirty secondary school students from district of Kuantan, Malaysia were measured for their weights and heights. A set of questionnaire containing two sections was used to obtain the sociodemographic data and food security information. The Radimer/Cornell Instrument (Malay version) was used to capture the severity of food insecurity. Results: The findings demonstrated that 23.4% of the respondents were food secure and 76.6% were food insecure, which were categorized into household food insecurity (31.5%), individual food insecurity (7.6%) and child hunger (37.5%). Furthermore, 60% have normal BMI-for-age, 9.2% were underweight, while 16.6% and 14.2% were overweight and obese. The prevalence of stunting was 11.7% while others were categorized as normal in terms of height-for-age z-score. Respondents with working mothers were found to be less likely to experience food insecurity compared to those with mothers who were not working (AOR 0.59; 95% CI: 0.34–0.97; p = 0.037). Conclusion: The high prevalence of food insecurity and increasing overweight and obesity incidents are a concern within this area. While food security element should be included in any intervention program addressing overweight and obesity, further research is needed to study the complex relationship between socio-demographic factors, food security and nutritional status. Karger Publishers 2019-07 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/74003/1/2019%20ANM501751%20pg369.pdf Mohd Abu Bakar, Wan Azdie and Yahya, Noor Atirah and Sidek, Suriati and Ab Ghalib, Halimatun Saadiah and Mat Ya, Roselawati and Abdul Rahman, Rozlin (2019) Food security and BMI status among adolescents in Kuantan, Pahang. Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism, 75 (Suppl. 3). pp. 369-370. ISSN 0250-6807 E-ISSN 1421-9697 https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/501751 10.1159/000501751
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spellingShingle	RA Public aspects of medicine TX341 Nutrition. Foods and food supply Mohd Abu Bakar, Wan Azdie Yahya, Noor Atirah Sidek, Suriati Ab Ghalib, Halimatun Saadiah Mat Ya, Roselawati Abdul Rahman, Rozlin Food security and BMI status among adolescents in Kuantan, Pahang
description	Background/Aims: Food security can be defined as the availability of and accessibility to food, acquired in an acceptable means at any given time and place in a way that could maintain health and wellbeing. This study aimed to identify the food security status and the nutritional status of adolescents and to determine the associated factors. Methods: Five hundred and thirty secondary school students from district of Kuantan, Malaysia were measured for their weights and heights. A set of questionnaire containing two sections was used to obtain the sociodemographic data and food security information. The Radimer/Cornell Instrument (Malay version) was used to capture the severity of food insecurity. Results: The findings demonstrated that 23.4% of the respondents were food secure and 76.6% were food insecure, which were categorized into household food insecurity (31.5%), individual food insecurity (7.6%) and child hunger (37.5%). Furthermore, 60% have normal BMI-for-age, 9.2% were underweight, while 16.6% and 14.2% were overweight and obese. The prevalence of stunting was 11.7% while others were categorized as normal in terms of height-for-age z-score. Respondents with working mothers were found to be less likely to experience food insecurity compared to those with mothers who were not working (AOR 0.59; 95% CI: 0.34–0.97; p = 0.037). Conclusion: The high prevalence of food insecurity and increasing overweight and obesity incidents are a concern within this area. While food security element should be included in any intervention program addressing overweight and obesity, further research is needed to study the complex relationship between socio-demographic factors, food security and nutritional status.
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author	Mohd Abu Bakar, Wan Azdie Yahya, Noor Atirah Sidek, Suriati Ab Ghalib, Halimatun Saadiah Mat Ya, Roselawati Abdul Rahman, Rozlin
author_facet	Mohd Abu Bakar, Wan Azdie Yahya, Noor Atirah Sidek, Suriati Ab Ghalib, Halimatun Saadiah Mat Ya, Roselawati Abdul Rahman, Rozlin
author_sort	Mohd Abu Bakar, Wan Azdie
title	Food security and BMI status among adolescents in Kuantan, Pahang
title_short	Food security and BMI status among adolescents in Kuantan, Pahang
title_full	Food security and BMI status among adolescents in Kuantan, Pahang
title_fullStr	Food security and BMI status among adolescents in Kuantan, Pahang
title_full_unstemmed	Food security and BMI status among adolescents in Kuantan, Pahang
title_sort	food security and bmi status among adolescents in kuantan, pahang
publisher	Karger Publishers
publishDate	2019
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Food security and BMI status among adolescents in Kuantan, Pahang

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