Clinical Nutrition Department, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Taibah University, Madinah, Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Electronic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Front Public Health. 2024 Aug 21;12:1409105. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1409105. eCollection 2024.
Research exploring factors that may influence the diet quality of adolescents in the Middle East are very limited. We aimed to investigate factors associated with diet quality and the weight status of adolescents in Saudi Arabia.
A cross-sectional study that included 638 healthy adolescents aged between 11 and 18 years who were randomly recruited from 16 private and public middle- and high-schools located in two Saudi cities (Jeddah and Madinah). All participants were given an envelope for parents to collect socioeconomic data. Diet quality and anthropometric data of adolescents were evaluated at school.
Median diet quality score was higher among males compared to female adolescents (10.00 (8.00-11.00) vs. 9.00 (8.00-10.0), respectively, = 0.018). Median diet quality score was significantly higher among adolescents residing in Jeddah compared to adolescents residing in Madinah (10.00 (9.00-11.0) vs. 9.00 (8.00-10.0), respectively, = 0.002). Stepwise linear regression analysis indicated that city of residence (B = -0.53, SE = 0.16 [95% CI: -0.83 to -0.22]), and child's sex (B = -0.34, SE = 0.15 [95% CI: -0.64 to -0.05]) were associated with diet quality scores of adolescents in Saudi Arabia.
Future longitudinal research should be directed to further investigate other possible factors influencing the diet quality of adolescents and individuals from other age groups in Saudi Arabia.
探索可能影响中东青少年饮食质量的因素的研究非常有限。我们旨在调查与沙特阿拉伯青少年饮食质量和体重状况相关的因素。
这是一项横断面研究，纳入了 638 名年龄在 11 至 18 岁之间的健康青少年，他们是从沙特阿拉伯两个城市（吉达和麦地那）的 16 所私立和公立中学中随机招募的。所有参与者都收到了一个信封，让家长收集社会经济数据。青少年的饮食质量和人体测量数据是在学校评估的。
与女性青少年相比，男性青少年的饮食质量评分中位数更高（分别为 10.00（8.00-11.00）和 9.00（8.00-10.00），=0.018）。与居住在麦地那的青少年相比，居住在吉达的青少年的饮食质量评分中位数显著更高（分别为 10.00（9.00-11.00）和 9.00（8.00-10.00），=0.002）。逐步线性回归分析表明，居住城市（B=-0.53，SE=0.16 [95%CI：-0.83 至-0.22]）和孩子的性别（B=-0.34，SE=0.15 [95%CI：-0.64 至-0.05]）与沙特阿拉伯青少年的饮食质量评分相关。
未来的纵向研究应针对进一步调查可能影响沙特阿拉伯青少年和其他年龄组个体饮食质量的其他因素。
