Citation

Pengpid S, Peltzer K. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019; 17(1): e132.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, MDPI: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute)

DOI

10.3390/ijerph17010132

PMID

31878104

PMCID

PMC6981753

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

Language: en

Keywords

Humans; Female; Male; Students; Schools; Adolescent; adolescents; Anxiety; Suicide; Health Surveys; psychological distress; Mental Health; Bullying; substance use; Southeast Asia; Asia, Southeastern; aggressive behavior; Health Risk Behaviors; Carbonated Beverages; soft drink intake