Department of Administration, CHA Ilsan Medical Center, Seoul 10414, Korea.
Department of Public Health, Graduate School, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Korea.
Nutrients. 2022 Jul 23;14(15):3024. doi: 10.3390/nu14153024.
Due to changing household types and weakening of family functions, children have fewer opportunities to develop healthy lifestyle patterns from contact with family members compared to the past. In this paper, we evaluate the association between household type and adolescents' fast-food consumption, focusing on whether they were living with their parents or not, and determine their reasons for not living with their parents.
This cross-sectional study analyzed data from the Korea Youth Risk Behavior web-based survey between 2017 and 2020. The subjects were students in grades 7-12. The outcome variable was a frequency of fast-food intake of ≥5 times per week. The main independent variable was the type of household: (1) living with both parents; (2) living with a single parent (one of father, mother, stepfather, stepmother); (3) not living together, but having parents; and (4) having no parents.
Participants without parents were more likely to eat fast food frequently than those living with both parents. Among boys, not having parents and living in a dorm or boarding house or living with other family members or relatives were significantly associated with frequent fast-food intake; among girls, not having parents and living in a dorm or boarding house were significantly associated with frequent fast-food intake.
Adolescents having no parents have a higher risk of frequent fast-food intake than those living with both parents. Further studies are needed to address household types in greater detail.
由于家庭类型的变化和家庭功能的弱化，与过去相比，儿童与家庭成员接触的机会较少，难以养成健康的生活方式。本文评估了家庭类型与青少年快餐消费之间的关联，重点关注他们是否与父母同住，并确定他们不和父母同住的原因。
本横断面研究分析了 2017 年至 2020 年期间韩国青少年风险行为网络调查的数据。研究对象为 7-12 年级的学生。因变量是每周食用快餐≥5 次的频率。主要的独立变量是家庭类型：（1）与父母双方同住；（2）与单亲（父亲、母亲、继父、继母）同住；（3）不住在一起，但有父母；（4）没有父母。
没有父母的参与者比与父母双方同住的参与者更有可能经常食用快餐。对于男孩，没有父母、住在宿舍或寄宿家庭、与其他家庭成员或亲戚同住与经常食用快餐显著相关；对于女孩，没有父母、住在宿舍或寄宿家庭与经常食用快餐显著相关。
与与父母双方同住的青少年相比，没有父母的青少年更有可能经常食用快餐。需要进一步研究更详细的家庭类型。
