Abstract
The Perceived Nutrition Environment Measures Survey (NEMS-P) is a validated tool that illustrates individuals’ perceptions of their nutrition environments. We developed a culturally tailored NEMS-P that characterizes the nutrition environment of the Bangladeshi ethnic enclaves in New York City. The tool captures (a) home food environment & dietary acculturation, (b) perception regarding diabetes, (c) consumer nutrition environment, (d) thoughts and habits about food, (e) food security, (f) household information, and (g) demographics. This tool includes culturally specific Bangladeshi foods and assesses the availability and intake of foods in adult Bangladeshi immigrants ages 18 years and older. Furthermore, we will be able to examine the role that cultural foods and behaviors play in diabetes. Printed guide images of common ethnic foods have also been developed to aid in translation and overcome linguistic barriers to communication. Sample recruitment has been done by distributing fliers on social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, distribution throughout the Brooklyn College campus, and snowball sampling. We have interviewed 20 Bangladeshi Immigrants ( female= 65%,male=35%; Age =(Mean土SD) 37土16 years; diabetes prevalence= 25%). This research reflects the shifting cultural and ethnic landscape and the accessibility of cultural foods which were once considered exotic in NYC. Furthermore, it shifts the focus from the Western diet and practices, to evaluating and incorporating cultural foods and practices in all aspects of nutrition and dietetics, from community settings to food policy.
Presenters
Tamara AlamStudent, Masters, CUNY-Brooklyn College, New York, United States Jasmine Kaur
Margrethe Horlyck Romanovsky
Assistant Professor, Health and Nutrition Sciences, City University of New York, Brooklyn College, New York, United States
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Bangladeshi Immigrants, NEMS-P, Diabetes, Acculturation, Nutrition Environment, Perception, New York
