Effects of dietary acculturation to Malaysian who migrate to the region of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Autor:	I Abu Bakar
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Dietary acculturation Geography media_common.quotation_subject digestive oral and skin physiology education parasitic diseases Immigration Marital status geographic locations Demography media_common
Zdroj:	IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. 756:012020
ISSN:	1755-1315 1755-1307
DOI:	10.1088/1755-1315/756/1/012020
Popis:	Migration is a global phenomenon in modern world. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of dietary acculturation to Malaysians who migrate to the region of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia compared to their traditional dietary patterns in Malaysia. About 122 healthy Malaysians immigrating respondents were conveniently recruited for this study and their dietary patterns before and after migration were evaluated using specific self-administered questionnaire. All the data were then analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) Windows program version 17.0. The results showed that the frequency of respondents who irregularly take their meals is increased from 9.8% (in Malaysia) to 41.8% (in Saudi Arabia). Before migration, about 95.1% to 98.4% of the respondents took their breakfast, lunch and dinner every day but after migration, only 52.5% to 86.9% of them took breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. All demographic factors which are; gender, marital status, age range, level of education, occupation in Saudi Arabia, length of stay in Saudi Arabia and factor of stay with whom in Saudi Arabia showed significant (P
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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