{"id":3272,"date":"2016-05-29T17:32:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T14:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal-ene.gr\/?p=3272&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2026-11-05T23:27:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T21:27:46","slug":"family-affluence-socio-economic-status-and-dietary-habits-of-1st-year-university-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/family-affluence-socio-economic-status-and-dietary-habits-of-1st-year-university-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Family affluence, socio &#8211; economic status and dietary habits of 1st year University students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Introduction:<\/strong> Low socio-economic status (SES) is associated with health risk behaviours contributing to the social inequalities in health. However, the associations of dietary habits with socio-economic status have not been investigated in emerging adulthood in detail yet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Aim: <\/strong>To investigate the associations of dietary habits with socio-economic status in 1<sup>st<\/sup> year undergraduate university students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Methods:<\/strong> This cross-sectional analysis draws data from the LATO study, a longitudinal study of all 1<sup>st<\/sup> year undergraduate students of TEI Crete during the academic year 2012\/13 (\u039d=1138, 54% girls, Mean age 18,31 years, response rate 96,7%). The consumption frequencies of fruits, vegetables, soft drinks, breakfast and delivery food were associated with the following socio-economic indicators: Family affluence (FAS II), paternal and maternal educational level and self-reported economic status. The SPSS v21.0 was used to perform logistic regression models after adjusting for potential confounders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Results:<\/strong> Only 24,9%, 12% and 17% of the students were consuming breakfast, fruits and vegetables, respectively, in a daily basis. Soft drinks were consumed daily by 6,1% of the participants but most of them consumed delivery\/junk food less than 1\/week (73,8%). Higher family affluence was associated with increased odds of consuming breakfast (OR=2,90, 95%CI=1,13-7,44), soft drinks (OR=8,10, 95%CI=1,38-47,68) and delivery\/junk food (OR=2,44, 95%CI=1,27-4,70) in boys. High paternal educational level was associated in a protective way with boys\u2019 consumption of delivery food (OR=0,42, 95%CI=0,18-0,95) and soft drinks (OR=0,19, 95%CI=0,05-0,72). Fruits and vegetables consumption was not associated with any SES indicator.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Conclusions:<\/strong> The majority of 1st year university students were not following current diet recommendations irrespective of SES. Interventions targeting eating behaviours are needed at higher education institutes.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Key words:<\/strong> eating habits, socio-economic status, fruits, vegetables, breakfast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract Introduction: Low socio-economic status (SES) is associated with health risk behaviours contributing to the social inequalities in health. 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