MEGA_Kids
Brief description:
The project aims to describe the nutritional and health situation of children, adolescents, and adults in households with children at risk of poverty in numerous domains. In addition to the usual consumption of food groups and selected health indicators as well as demographic backgrounds, these domains also include food insecurity, expenditure on food, the use of school meals and charitable food services such as food banks, nutrition-related attitudes, cooking skills, nutritional knowledge, knowledge of existing nutritional services and other domains. In addition, the influence of these domains on nutrition and food security will be investigated.
Four sub-studies are planned to achieve the objectives. In sub-study A, multi-stage stratified random samples of households at risk of poverty with children will be recruited via various institutions. One adult and one child or adolescent from each of 500 households at risk of poverty will be interviewed in writing or orally on various nutrition and health-related domains. In sub-study B, knowledge about and assessment of the benefits of existing nutrition-related measures among adults from a further sample of 200 households with children at risk of poverty will be recorded. In the qualitative sub-study C, 20 adults from a sub-sample of study A will be interviewed using semi-standardized interviews about their experiences and subjective perceptions of conditions and factors that influence their food security and food quality. Finally, in the qualitative sub-study D, a total of approx. 40 adults from a sub-sample of study A will discuss their perceived support needs and effective offers in terms of nutrition-related behavioral and situational prevention in the context of two group events. For the quantitative data, the prevalences are given with 95% confidence intervals for various socioeconomic variables, taking into account the clustering of the data. The qualitative data will be analyzed inductively and deductively. Finally, the results of the sub-studies will be synthesized and presented for the first time in the 15th DGE Nutrition Report. The overall project is being carried out in cooperation with the Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics at Charité – Medical University Berlin.
Duration of the project:
01.07.2021 - 30.06.2024
Project team:
Prof. Nanette Ströbele-Benschop, Ph.D.
Funding:
In Kooperation mit:
