High Carbonated Soft Drink Intake is Associated with Health Risk Behavior and Poor Mental Health among School-Going Adolescents in Six Southeast Asian Countries

Supa Pengpid and Karl Peltzer
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Supa Pengpid: ASEAN Institute for Health Development, Mahidol University, Salaya, Phutthamonthon, Nakhonpathom 73170, Thailand
Karl Peltzer: Lifestyle Diseases Research Entity, Faculty of Health Sciences, North-West University, Mafikeng Campus, Mmabatho 2745, South Africa

IJERPH, 2019, vol. 17, issue 1, 1-9

Abstract: Carbonated soft drink (CSD) intake has been associated with various risk behaviors in adolescents in high-income countries, but there is lack of evidence of this association in cross-nationally representative samples of school adolescents in low- and middle-income countries. This study aimed to assess the association between CSD intake, health risk behavior, and poor mental health behavior among school-going adolescents in six Southeast Asian countries. Cross-sectional national “Global School-Based Student Health Survey (GSHS)” data from 36173 school-going adolescents from Bangladesh, Indonesia, Laos, Philippines, Thailand, and Timor-Leste were analyzed. Results indicate that across all six Southeast Asian countries, in the past 30 days 23.9% of study participants had consumed no CSD, 38.8% had consumed CSD Keywords: soft drink intake; aggressive behavior; substance use; psychological distress; adolescents; Southeast Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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