A detour for snacks and beverages? A cross-sectional assessment of selective daily mobility bias in food outlet exposure along the commuting route and dietary intakes

L Wei; J Mackenbach; M Poelman; R Vermeulen; M Helbich

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103088

A detour for snacks and beverages? A cross-sectional assessment of selective daily mobility bias in food outlet exposure along the commuting route and dietary intakes

L Wei^*, J Mackenbach, M Poelman, R Vermeulen, M Helbich

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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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Abstract

The evidence of selective daily mobility bias distorting exposure-health associations is limited. Using 7-day smartphone-based global positioning system (GPS) tracking data for 67 Dutch adults aged 25–45, we conducted paired Wilcoxon tests to compare the absolute and relative exposure to food outlets along actual and modelled commuting routes. We fitted Tobit regressions to examine their associations with three daily snack and soft drink intake outcomes. We found significant differences in absolute food outlet exposure between two types of routes. Adjusted regression analyses yielded unexpected associations between dietary intakes and food outlet exposures. Our results suggested no evidence of a selective daily mobility bias in the association between the food environment along commuting routes and adults’ snacks and soft drink consumption in this sample.

Original language	English
Article number	103088
Number of pages	10
Journal	Health and Place
Volume	83
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103088
Publication status	Published - Sept 2023

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The study was supported by EXPOSOME-NL, which is funded through the Gravitation program of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO grant number 024.004.017). The study was funded by the NWO-MaGW Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Veni (project number 451-16-029), financed by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. The Future Food hub of Utrecht University and the department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning provided additional funding. The funding bodies had no input into the design of the study, the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data, or the writing of the manuscript. The study was supported by EXPOSOME-NL, which is funded through the Gravitation program of the Dutch Ministry of Education , Culture, and Science and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research ( NWO grant number 024.004.017). The study was funded by the NWO-MaGW Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Veni (project number 451-16-029), financed by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. The Future Food hub of Utrecht University and the department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning provided additional funding. The funding bodies had no input into the design of the study, the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data, or the writing of the manuscript.

Funders	Funder number
Dutch Ministry of Education , Culture, and Science
Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science
EXPOSOME-NL
Future Food hub of Utrecht University
NWO-MaGW Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Veni	451-16-029
Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek	024.004.017

Keywords

Dietary behavior
Food environment
GPS
Selective daily mobility bias

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