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Kareena McAloney1, Hilary Graham, Catherine Law
1Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK, kareena.mcaloney@gcu.ac.uk.
Objectives:
UK guidelines for youth recommend daily physical activity and five portions of fruit and vegetables per day. This study examined the prevalence and clustering of meeting recommendations among 10- to 15-year old.
Methods:
Data for 3,914 youth, from the first wave of Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study, were analysed. Clustering was assessed using the observed/expected ratio method.
Results:
A minority of youth met both recommendations, and these behaviours were clustered. The odds of meeting both recommendations were lower for older youth and for Pakistani and Bangladeshi youth; boys in lower income households were less likely to meet both recommendations.
Conclusions:
Most youth met neither recommendation and the behaviours clustered with variations by ethnicity and socioeconomic conditions.
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