Dietary Characteristics and Influencing Factors on Chinese Immigrants in Canada and the United States: A Scoping Review

Nutrients

Hui Zhang¹  Dong Ba²  Yan Luo³  Ping Zou⁴  Yeqin Yang⁵  Chunmei Zhang⁵  Yao Wang⁶ 

[1] Department of Cardiology, Guizhou Provincial People’s Hospital, Guiyang 550002, China;Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada;Faculty of Nursing, Health Science Center, Xi’an Jiaotong University, No. 76 Yanta West Road, Xi’an 710061, China;School of Nursing, Nipissing University, 222 St. Patrick Street, Suite 618, Toronto, ON M5T 1V4, Canada;School of Nursing, Wenzhou Medical University, Chashan Higher Education Park, Wenzhou 325035, China;Xiang Ya School of Nursing, Central South University, Changsha 410013, China;

关键词: diet;    influencing factors;    Chinese;    immigrants;    review;    Canada;   

DOI  :  10.3390/nu14102166

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Background: Chinese immigrants are an integral part of Canadian and American society. Chinese immigrants believe diet to be an important aspect of health, and dietary behaviours in this population have been associated with changes in disease risk factors and disease incidence. This review aims to summarize the characteristics of the dietary behaviours of Chinese immigrants and the associated influencing factors to better inform individual, clinical, and policy decisions. Methods: This scoping review was written in accordance with PRISMA guidelines. MEDLINE, PsychINFO, CINAHL, AgeLine, ERIC, ProQuest, Nursing and Allied Health Database, PsychARTICLES, and Sociology Database were utilized for the literature search. Articles were included if they explored dietary or nutritional intake or its influencing factors for Chinese immigrants to Canada or the United States. Results: A total of 51 papers were included in this review. Among Chinese immigrants in Canada and the United States, the intake of fruits and vegetables, milk and alternatives, and fiber were inadequate against national recommendations. Chinese immigrants showed increased total consumption of food across all food groups and adoption of Western food items. Total caloric intake, meat and alternatives intake, and carbohydrate intake increased with acculturation. Individual factors (demographics, individual preferences, and nutritional awareness), familial factors (familial preferences and values, having young children in the family, and household food environment), and community factors (accessibility and cultural conceptualizations of health and eating) influenced dietary behaviours of Chinese immigrants. Discussion and Conclusion: Efforts should be undertaken to increase fruit, vegetable, and fibre consumption in this population. As dietary acculturation is inevitable, efforts must also be undertaken to ensure that healthy Western foods are adopted. It is important for healthcare providers to remain culturally sensitive when providing dietary recommendations. This can be achieved through encouragement of healthy ethnocultural foods and acknowledgement and incorporation of traditional health beliefs and values into Western evidence-based principles where possible.

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