TY - JOUR
T1 - Comparing different residential neighborhood definitions and the association between density of restaurants and home cooking among dutch adults
AU - Pinho, Maria Gabriela M.
AU - Mackenbach, Joreintje D.
AU - Charreire, H. lène
AU - Oppert, Jean-Michel
AU - Rutter, Harry
AU - Beulens, Joline W. J.
AU - Brug, Johannes
AU - Lakerveld, Jeroen
N1 - Funding Information: Funding: The SPOTLIGHT project was funded by the Seventh Framework Programme (CORDIS FP7) of the European Commission, HEALTH (FP7-HEALTH-2011-two-stage), grant number 278186. M.G.M.d.P. has a grant from the Brazilian higher education agency CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) as part of the Science Without Borders Program, Process number 233850/2014-7. J.D.M.’s work was funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) with a VENI grant on “Making the healthy choice easier—role of the local food environment” (grant number 451-17-032). H.R.’s contribution to this research was supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care North Thames at Bart’s Health NHS Trust (NIHR CLAHRC North Thames). The funding agencies cited here, namely, NHS, the NIHR, the Department of Health and Social Care, European Commission, CNPq or NWO had no role in the design, analysis or writing of this article. Publisher Copyright: © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Copyright: Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/8/1
Y1 - 2019/8/1
N2 - The definition of neighborhoods as areas of exposure to the food environment is a challenge in food environment research. We aimed to test the association of density of restaurants with home cooking using four different definitions of residential neighborhoods. We also tested effect modification by age, length of residency, education, and income. This innovative cross-sectional study was conducted in the Netherlands (N = 1245 adults). We calculated geographic information system-based measures of restaurant density using residential administrative neighborhood boundaries, 800 m and 1600 m buffers around the home and respondents’ self-defined boundaries (drawn by the respondents on a map of their residential area). We used adjusted Poisson regression to test associations of restaurant density (tertiles) and the outcome ”weekly consumption of home-cooked meals” (six to seven as compared to five days per week (day/week) or fewer). Most respondents reported eating home-cooked meals for at least 6 day/week (74.2%). Regardless of the neighborhood definition used, no association between food environment and home cooking was observed. No effect modification was found. Although exposure in terms of density of restaurants was different according to the four different neighborhood definitions, we found no evidence that the area under study influences the association between density of restaurants and home cooking among Dutch adults.
AB - The definition of neighborhoods as areas of exposure to the food environment is a challenge in food environment research. We aimed to test the association of density of restaurants with home cooking using four different definitions of residential neighborhoods. We also tested effect modification by age, length of residency, education, and income. This innovative cross-sectional study was conducted in the Netherlands (N = 1245 adults). We calculated geographic information system-based measures of restaurant density using residential administrative neighborhood boundaries, 800 m and 1600 m buffers around the home and respondents’ self-defined boundaries (drawn by the respondents on a map of their residential area). We used adjusted Poisson regression to test associations of restaurant density (tertiles) and the outcome ”weekly consumption of home-cooked meals” (six to seven as compared to five days per week (day/week) or fewer). Most respondents reported eating home-cooked meals for at least 6 day/week (74.2%). Regardless of the neighborhood definition used, no association between food environment and home cooking was observed. No effect modification was found. Although exposure in terms of density of restaurants was different according to the four different neighborhood definitions, we found no evidence that the area under study influences the association between density of restaurants and home cooking among Dutch adults.
KW - Adults
KW - Cooking at home
KW - Density of restaurants
KW - Exposure definition
KW - Food environment
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.3390/nu11081796
DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/nu11081796
M3 - Article
C2 - 31382624
SN - 2072-6643
VL - 11
JO - NUTRIENTS
JF - NUTRIENTS
IS - 8
M1 - 1796
ER -