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Perception and practice of ‘healthy’ diet in relation to noncommunicable diseases among the urban and rural people in northern Ethiopia: a community-based qualitative study
Lemlem Weldegerima Gebremariam
Aoyama, Atsuko
Alemayehu Bayray Kahsay
Hirakawa, Yoshihisa
Chiang, Chifa
Yatsuya, Hiroshi
Matsuyama, Akiko
open access
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
noncommunicable diseases
Northern Ethiopia
dietary habit
habitual practice
qualitative study
Dietary habits are related to the risks of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes, of which burdens are increasing in low-income countries including Ethiopia. Although several epidemiological studies of NCD risk factors were conducted in Ethiopia, qualitative studies on people’s dietary habit in relation to NCDs have not been conducted yet. This study aims to describe people’s perception and practice of ‘healthy’ diet, and barriers to practice ‘healthy’ diet, paying attention to the dynamics between the perception and practice. We conducted 16 key informant interviews and eight focus group discussions in an urban and a rural areas in northern Ethiopia between November 2014 and January 2016. Audio-records in local language were transcribed word-for-word, and translated into English. English text data were analyzed qualitatively, through constant comparative analysis following the principles of the grounded theory. Three themes have emerged: (1) dietary habit perceived as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ for health; (2) reasons for continuing current ‘unhealthy’ dietary habit; and (3) current dietary habit perceived as ‘traditional.’ People’s practice was mostly consistent with their perception, while they sometimes practiced contrary to the perception because of personal preference and physical or financial obstacles. People were often indifferent of health implications of their habitual dietary practice, such as drinking a lot of sweet coffee. We showed dynamics between perception and practice of ‘healthy’ diet among people in northern Ethiopia. It is needed to increase awareness of NCDs both among the urban and rural people and to improve the social environment for removing the obstacles.
Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, School of Medicine
2018-11
eng
departmental bulletin paper
VoR
https://doi.org/10.18999/nagjms.80.4.451
http://hdl.handle.net/2237/00029218
https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/27018
10.18999/nagjms.80.4.451
http://www.med.nagoya-u.ac.jp/medlib/nagoya_j_med_sci/804.html
2186-3326
0027-7622
Nagoya Journal of Medical Science
80
4
451
464
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