Journal article
The association between self-reported diet quality and health-related quality of life in rural and urban Australian adolescents
KA Bolton, F Jacka, S Allender, P Kremer, L Gibbs, E Waters, A de Silva
Australian Journal of Rural Health | Published : 2016
DOI: 10.1111/ajr.12275
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: This study examines the relationship between diet quality and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in rural and urban Australian adolescents, and gender differences.DESIGN: Cross-sectional.SETTING: Secondary schools.PARTICIPANTS: 722 rural and 422 urban students from 19 secondary schools.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Self-report dietary-related behaviours, demographic information, HRQoL (AQoL-6D) were collected. Healthy and unhealthy diet quality scores were calculated; multiple linear regression investigated associations between diet quality and HRQoL.RESULTS: Compared to urban students, rural students had higher HRQoL, higher healthy diet score, lower unhealthy diet score, consumed l..
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Awarded by Australian National Health and Medical Research Council/Australian National Heart Foundation Career Development Fellowship
Funding Acknowledgements
We gratefully acknowledge the funding support for this study from the Windermere Foundation. We acknowledge the assistance of research assistants involved in collecting data in the field, input from Boyd Swinburn, and the assistance and support of the project officers from each of the five school-based 'Go for your life' Health Promoting Communities: Being Active and Eating Well (HPC: BAEW) projects. The HPC: BAEW projects and their evaluation were funded by the Department of Health and Department of Planning and Community Development, State Government of Victoria (note the views in this paper do not necessarily represent those of the Department of Health). Data collection was supported by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. KB was funded by the Windermere Foundation. FJ has received Grant/Research support from the Brain and Behaviour Research Institute, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Australian Rotary Health, the Geelong Medical Research Foundation, the Ian Potter Foundation, Eli Lilly, the Meat and Livestock Board and The University of Melbourne and has been a paid speaker for Sanofi-Synthelabo, Janssen Cilag, Servier, Pfizer, Health Ed, Network Nutrition, Angelini Farmaceutica, and Eli Lilly. SA is supported by funding from an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council/Australian National Heart Foundation Career Development Fellowship (APP1045836). SA is a researcher on the US National Institutes of Health grant titled Systems Science to Guide Whole-of-Community Childhood Obesity Interventions (1R01HL115485-01A1) and a researcher within a NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Obesity Policy and Food Systems (APP1041020). At the time of the study LG was partly funded by an NHMRC capacity building grant and LG and EW were supported by the Jack Brockhoff Foundation.