From: Adolescent dietary patterns in Fiji and their relationships with standardized body mass index
Diet variable | Dichotomised diet variable | |
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 | Healthier | Less healthy |
Breakfast, lunch and morning snack | Â | Â |
Breakfast consumption | Frequent consumer (4–5 days in the last 5 school days) | Infrequent consumer (0–3 days in the last 5 school days) |
Source of breakfast | Home | Outside-home (school canteen, shops, friends) |
Morning snack consumption | Frequent consumer (4–5 days in the last 5 school days) | Infrequent breakfast consumer (0–3 days in the last 5 school days) |
Source of morning snack | Home | Outside-home (school canteen, shops, friends) |
Lunch consumption | Frequent consumer (4–5 days in the last 5 school days) | Infrequent lunch consumer (0–3 days in the last 5 school days) |
Source of lunch | Home | Outside-home (school canteen, shops, friends) |
Fruit and vegetable | Â | Â |
Fruit and vegetable consumption | High consumer (≥5 serves a day) | Low consumer (≤5 serves a day) |
Fruit consumption after school | Frequent consumer (every day/ almost every day/ most days) | Infrequent consumer (some days/ hardly) |
Availability of fruit at home after school | Frequent (every day/ almost every day/ most days) | Infrequent (some days/ hardly) |
Sugar sweetened beverages | Â | Â |
SSB consumption (frequency) | Infrequent consumer (0–3 days in the last 5 school days) | Frequent consumer (4–5 days in the 5 school days) |
SSB consumption (quantity) | Low consumer (≤2 glasses on the last school day) | High consumer (≥ 2 glasses on the last school day) |
Availability of SSB at home after school | Infrequent (some days/hardly ever/never) | Frequent (every day/almost every day) |
Takeaway consumption | Infrequent consumer (about once a week/2-3 times a month/once a month or less) | Frequent consumer (usually more than once a week) |
Takeaway consumption for dinner | Infrequent consumer (2–3 times a month/once a month or less) | Frequent consumer (more than once a week) |
Snacks | Â | Â |
Buying snacks after school | Infrequent (0–3 days in the last 5 school days) | Frequent (4–5 days in the last 5 school days) |
Snacks consumption after school | Infrequent consumer (some days/hardly ever/never) | Frequent consumer (every day/almost every day) |
Availability of snacks at home | Infrequent (some days/hardly ever/never) | Frequent (every day/most days) or |
Consumption of fried food after school | Infrequent consumer (some days/hardly ever/never | Frequent consumer (every day/most days) |
Consumption of confectionary after school | Infrequent consumer (some days/hardly ever/never) | Frequent consumer (every day/most days) |
Availability of confectionery at home | Infrequent (some days/hardly ever/never) | Frequent (every day/most days) |