Disentangling women’s responses on complex dietary intake patterns from an Indian cross-sectional survey: a latent class analysis
Padmadas, Sabu S., Dias, José G. and Willekens, Frans J. (2006) Disentangling women’s responses on complex dietary intake patterns from an Indian cross-sectional survey: a latent class analysis. Public Health Nutrition, 9, (2), 204-211. (doi:10.1079/PHN2005842).
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Description/Abstract
Objective: To investigate the degree of individual heterogeneity related to complex dietary behaviour and to further examine the associations of different dietary compositions with selected characteristics.
Design: Latent class analysis was applied to data from the recent cross-sectional National Family Health Survey that collected information on the intake frequency of selected foods. Different responses regarding intake frequency were condensed into a set of five meaningful latent clusters representing different dietary patterns and these clusters were then labelled based on the reported degree of diet mixing.
Setting: Indian states.
Subjects: In total, 90?180 women aged 15–49 years.
Results: Three clusters were predominantly non-vegetarian and two were vegetarian. A very high or high mixed-diet pattern was observed particularly in the southern and a few north-eastern states. Many women in the very high mixed-diet cluster consumed mostly non-green/leafy vegetables on a daily basis, and fruits and other non-vegetarian diet on a weekly basis. In contrast, those in the low mixed-diet cluster consumed more than three-fifths of the major vegetarian diet ingredients alone on a daily basis. The affluent group that represented the low mixed-diet cluster were primarily vegetarians and those who represented the very high mixed-diet cluster were mostly non-vegetarians. The significant interrelationships of different characteristics highlight not only socio-economic, spatial and cultural disparities related to dietary practices, but also the substantial heterogeneity in diet mixing behaviour.
Conclusions: The results of this study confirmed our hypothesis of heterogeneous dietary behaviour of Indian women and yielded useful policy-oriented results which might be difficult to establish otherwise.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 1368-9800 (print) |
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races H Social Sciences > HA Statistics R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Social Sciences > Social Statistics |
| Item ID: | 34600 |
| Date Deposited: | 15 May 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2011 11:39 |
| Contributors: | Padmadas, Sabu S. (Author) Dias, José G. (Author) Willekens, Frans J. (Author) |
| Date: | 2006 |
| Status: | Published |
| Contact Email Address: | S.Padmadas@soton.ac.uk |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/34600 |
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