Association between the neighborhood food environment and dietary variety in Japanese rural community-dwelling older adults: a cross-sectional study

Association between the neighborhood food environment and dietary variety in Japanese rural community-dwelling older adults: a cross-sectional study - Association between the neighborhood food environment and dietary variety in Japanese rural community-dwelling older adults: a cross-sectional study

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

JPRN

Registry ID

JPRN-UMIN000038157

Enrollment

1650

Registered

2019-10-01

Start date

2019-10-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2026-06-29

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Conditions

Dietary variety

Interventions

None listed

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: The participants of this study were who participated "Effectiveness of community-wide promotion of physical activity in middle-aged and older adults: a dissemination study"(UMIN000024682)* who were 65 years or more and responded to the survey of the second year of intervention (November 2018). * This intervention study is a community-wide intervention for the Uunnan city, and the evaluation is conducted by mail survey of 7,000 people randomly selected from all citizens aged 40 to 79 years. The participants of the second-year survey were those who responded to the baseline survey.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: People who need someone's assistance to go outside.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Dietary variety assessed by dietary variety score (DVS). DVS is calculated from the intake frequency of 10 food item (meat, fish/shellfish, eggs, milk, soybean products, green/yellow vegetables, potatoes, fruit, seaweed, and fats/ oils) (Kumagai, Nihon Koshu Eisei Zasshi, 2003 (in Japanese)).	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Frequency of intake for each of the 10 food groups used to evaluate DVS.	—

Countries

Japan

Contacts

Public ContactTatsunosuke Gomi

Physical Education and Medicine Research Center UNNAN Research Division

shintai@bs.kkm.ne.jp0854-49-9050

Outcome results