ENS03 What food-related tasks and responsibilities do adolescents engage in?

Overview

Dietary intake in childhood and adolescence lays the foundation for lifelong food preferences, dietary quality and health. However, studies of dietary intake consistently show that young people do not meet recommendations – with excess energy intake derived from discretionary foods and low intakes of fruits and vegetables.

Adolescence marks an important shift with respect to dietary intake. Young people take on increasing responsibility regarding food choice, purchasing and preparation, while parental responsibility decreases. A scoping review will be undertaken to understand the range of food-related tasks that adolescences may engage in, and the degree of responsibility they assume for these tasks.  Understanding processes underpinning food choice may provide insight into how to improve dietary quality amongst young people.

Research engagement

Conduct a scoping review using relevant guidelines e.g. Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) methodological guidance for scoping reviews (Peters, Godfrey, et al., 2020; Peters, Marnie, et al., 2020); Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) (Tricco et al., 2018)

Research activities

Comprehensive search library data bases

Article screening using Covidence

Data extraction from included articles

Qualitative synthesis of findings

All with support from supervisors and liaison librarian

Outcomes

A draft of a scoping review, that could be submitted for publication with additional support from supervisors

Skills and experience

Attention to detail

Start date

1 November, 2024

End date

21 February, 2025

Location

QUT KG campus

Keywords

• Food literacy
• Food responsibility
• Autonomy
• Adolescence
• Dietary quality

Contact

Associate Professor Helen Vidgen, h.vidgen@qut.edu.au