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Do Where The Elderly Live Matter? Factors Associated with Diet Quality among Korean Elderly Population Living in Urban Versus Rural Areas by Park, Sohyun; Kim, Hyun Ja; Kim, Kirang is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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This study aimed to examine whether there is an area difference on diet quality among the Korean elderly population. The effect of personal factors on diet quality is also estimated and compared between rural and urban areas. A cross-sectional data from the 2013–2015 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) was used for this study. The participants were older adults aged ≥ 65 years (__n__ = 3207) who participated in the KNHANES. Urban and rural areas classified the region and the Korean Healthy Eating Index (KHEI) assessed the diet quality. Personal factors that were related to diet quality included socio-demographic factors, health behaviors, and health conditions. This study found that the diet quality was different between urban and rural areas in the Korean elderly population, showing a higher mean of KHEI scores in urban areas than rural areas (67.3 for urban seniors, 63.6 for rural seniors, __p__ < 0.001), and the regional difference was still significant, even after adjusting for the personal factors (__p__ < 0.001). Different sets of personal factors were found to be significant that explain the diet quality of participants between areas, such as eco
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- Author
- Park, Sohyun; Kim, Hyun Ja; Kim, Kirang
- Publisher
- MDPI AG; Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI); Basel: MDPI, 2009-; Publons; Research Square (ISSN 2072-6643)
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)