Warwick Center for Global Health, Division of Health Sciences, Warwick Medical School, The University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
Nutr J. 2022 Jul 30;21(1):49. doi: 10.1186/s12937-022-00801-0.
In recent decades, the food environment has seen rapid transformation globally, altering food availability and access along with how people interact with the food environment and make food-related choice.
OBJECTIVES & METHOD: This explorative study aimed to identify the factors that shape the decision-making process for food outlet choices among emerging adults in a Ghanaian University food environment. The study uses focus group discussions in combination with novel dyadic interviews with best friend pairs. Verbatim transcripts were analysed thematically using NVivo 12.
Drawing on socio-ecological model (SEM) of behaviour, the study used testimony from 46 participants aged 18-25, 47% female, including individuals from major ethnicities and religions in Ghana, and identified three interwoven levels of influence shaping emerging adults' choices of food outlet. The main factors influencing food outlet choice were identified as food prices, spatial accessibility, budget, and food quantity/satiety with additional factors including hygiene, variety of foods, food quality and taste preferences as well as societal factors such as ambience and peer influence.
Multi-component approaches that combine structural level interventions in food retailing along with individual level components may be effective at changing emerging adult consumption behaviour in SSA, although this needs to be studied.
近几十年来，全球食品环境发生了迅速的转变，改变了食品的可获得性和可及性，以及人们与食品环境的互动方式和做出与食品相关的选择。
本探索性研究旨在确定在加纳大学食品环境中，影响新兴成年人选择食品店的决策过程的因素。该研究使用焦点小组讨论，并结合具有创新性的最佳朋友对的对偶访谈。使用 NVivo 12 对逐字记录进行主题分析。
本研究借鉴行为的社会生态模式（SEM），从年龄在 18-25 岁的 46 名参与者中获取证词，其中 47%为女性，包括来自加纳主要种族和宗教的个体，并确定了影响新兴成年人选择食品店的三个相互交织的影响层次。影响食品店选择的主要因素包括食品价格、空间可达性、预算和食物数量/饱腹感，其他因素还包括卫生、食物种类、食品质量和口味偏好以及社会因素，如氛围和同伴影响。
在撒哈拉以南非洲地区，可能需要研究将食品零售的结构性干预与个体层面的干预相结合的多层面方法，以有效改变新兴成年人的消费行为。
