Spatial access to restaurants and grocery stores in relation to frequency of home cooking

Maria Gabriela M. Pinho*, Joreintje D. Mackenbach, Hélène Charreire, Jean-Michel Oppert, Helga Bárdos, Harry Rutter, Sofie Compernolle, Joline W. J. Beulens, Johannes Brug, Jeroen Lakerveld

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Background
Little is known about the relation between the neighbourhood food environment and home cooking. We explored the independent and combined associations between residential neighbourhood spatial access to restaurants and grocery stores with home cooking in European adults.

Methods
Data of 5076 participants of the SPOTLIGHT study were collected across five European countries in 2014. Food retailers were classified into grocery stores (supermarkets and local food shops) and restaurants (full-service restaurants, fast food and take-away restaurants, café/bars). We used multinomial logistic regression models to test the associations between tertiles of spatial access to restaurants and spatial to access grocery stores and the outcome ‘frequency of home cooking’ categorized into 0-3; 4-5; and 6-7 days/week. Additive interaction analysis was used to test the combined association between access to grocery stores and to restaurants with home cooking.

Results
Mean age was 52.3 years; most participants were women (55.5%) and completed higher education (53.8%). Residents with highest access to restaurants had a reduced likelihood of home cooking 6-7 days/week (vs. 0-3 days/week) (relative risk ratio (RRR) 0.42; 95%CI = 0.23-0.76) when compared with lowest access to restaurants. No association was found for spatial access to grocery stores. Additive interaction analysis showed that individuals with medium access to grocery stores and highest access to restaurants had the lowest likelihood (RRR = 0.29, 95%CI = 0.10-0.84) of cooking 6-7 days/week when compared to individuals with lowest access to restaurants and highest access to grocery stores.

Conclusion
Greater neighbourhood spatial access to restaurants was associated with lower frequency of home cooking, largely independent of access to grocery stores.
Original languageEnglish
Article number6
JournalInternational Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
Volume15
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2018
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Home cooking
  • food environment
  • restaurants
  • grocery stores
  • spatial analysis
  • adults

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