Smith Jane Lankes, Comeau Madeline E, Hess Julie M
Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture, Texas A&M University, 7101 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
USDA-ARS Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, 2420 2nd Ave N, Grand Forks, ND 58203, USA.
Nutrients. 2025 Mar 7;17(6):932. doi: 10.3390/nu17060932.
Understanding influences on food habits is crucial to developing effective strategies to improve dietary quality. Past research shows that the predictors of food habits may be dependent on individuals' age and sex. Young women are a population of particular concern, as they have one of the greatest disparities between actual and recommended diet. The purpose of this review is to better understand the current body of research on factors that may influence young women's eating patterns. A systematic search on PubMed identified studies on the social, behavioral, and psychological predictors of food choices among females 13-24 years in the United States published between 2017 and 2022. Two researchers independently conducted a content analysis of the 48 final articles. The two researchers then jointly identified overarching themes in the literature, with consultation from a third researcher. While social and psychological factors are frequently examined in the current literature, few studies evaluate behavioral influences on young women's eating habits. Overall, little research has been conducted on diet quality influences among young women, as <2% of articles contained findings that met the inclusion criteria. This analysis indicates that additional research is needed to ascertain predictors of adolescent and young adult women's food patterns and dietary choices.
了解对饮食习惯的影响对于制定提高饮食质量的有效策略至关重要。过去的研究表明，饮食习惯的预测因素可能取决于个体的年龄和性别。年轻女性是一个特别值得关注的群体，因为她们的实际饮食与推荐饮食之间的差距最大。本综述的目的是更好地了解当前关于可能影响年轻女性饮食模式的因素的研究。在PubMed上进行的系统检索确定了2017年至2022年间发表的关于美国13至24岁女性食物选择的社会、行为和心理预测因素的研究。两名研究人员独立对48篇最终文章进行了内容分析。然后，这两名研究人员在第三名研究人员的咨询下，共同确定了文献中的总体主题。虽然社会和心理因素在当前文献中经常被研究，但很少有研究评估行为对年轻女性饮食习惯的影响。总体而言，关于年轻女性饮食质量影响的研究很少，因为只有不到2%的文章包含符合纳入标准的研究结果。该分析表明，需要进行更多研究以确定青少年和年轻成年女性的食物模式和饮食选择的预测因素。
