A measure of satisfaction with food-related life

Grunert, Klaus G.; Dean, Moira; Raats, Monique M.; Nielsen, Nina Odgaard; Lumbers, Margaret

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2007.03.010

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“…Regardless of what perspective is taken, food is an essential part of living that occupies a considerable part of a person's daily life (in relation to time and resources), meaning it can be seen as both a source of satisfaction as well as potential dissatisfaction [66]. Health policies have drawn attention to the fact that food is an aspect of life that influences subjective wellbeing.…”

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“…The majority of food related wellbeing literature focuses on developed nations and specifically the consumption of food, except for Grunert et al [66] who added procurement and preparation of food. However, food-related wellbeing research ignores food production altogether and has yet to establish what role this plays in healthy eating, especially in developing countries.…”

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Who Cares? The Importance of Emotional Connections with Nature to Ensure Food Security and Wellbeing in Cities

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Abstract:To be "connected" is "to care", because how and what we care about is influenced, and influences, what we are connected with. Emotional connection predicts environmental concern and children exposed to green environments take this appreciation of nature with them into adulthood. However, the majority of the human population is now living within urban areas, where opportunities for people to interact and bond with nature are greatly diminished, thereby potentially threatening the liveability of cities into the future. Connection with nature has been shown repeatedly to benefit human wellbeing and predict pro-environmental behaviours. By definition "nature" includes urban agriculture, which is also an integral component of a city's foodscape, thereby providing opportunities to improve the wellbeing of city inhabitants as well as help ensure food security. This will only be attainable if the next generation has an emotional connection to nature, and the necessary life skills to help them enter adult life as informed food citizens who make healthy and sustainable decisions for themselves as well as others. This paper reviews existing literature on foodscape (or one's food environment) and biophilia (the love of life or living systems) to highlight the need for inter-disciplinary research that combines urban agriculture and food literacy to ensure future food security and wellbeing of urban inhabitants.

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Section: Food Related Wellbeingmentioning

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Who Cares? The Importance of Emotional Connections with Nature to Ensure Food Security and Wellbeing in Cities

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“…Recent studies conclude that food is among the important domains of life which affect the subjective wellbeing of individuals (Grunert et al, 2007;Schnettler et al, 2013c). It has been reported that there is a relation between satisfaction with food-related life and preferences for different foods (Schnettler et al, , 2011.…”

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“…The questionnaire included the SWFL (Satisfaction with Food-related Life) scale. SWFL was proposed and tested by Grunert et al (2007) in eight European countries (Cronbach's α: 0.81-0.85); the five items on the scale are grouped in a single dimension: 1. Food and meals are positive elements, 2.…”

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Acceptance of nanotechnology applications and satisfaction with food-related life in southern Chile

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“…The Health Questionnaire (see Appendix 6) included the required questions from the EQ-5D-5L to evaluate health-related quality of life 38 and the Satisfaction with Food-related Life Questionnaire to evaluate the patient's nutritional quality of life. 39 It is a measure of satisfaction developed by Grunert and the Food in Later Life team. The five items exhibit good reliability (as measured by Cronbach's alpha), good temporal stability, convergent validity with two related measures, and construct validity as indicated by relationships with other indicators of quality of life.…”

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A multicentre, randomised controlled trial comparing the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of early nutritional support via the parenteral versus the enteral route in critically ill patients (CALORIES)

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BackgroundMalnutrition is a common problem in critically ill patients in UK NHS critical care units. Early nutritional support is therefore recommended to address deficiencies in nutritional state and related disorders in metabolism. However, evidence is conflicting regarding the optimum route (parenteral or enteral) of delivery.ObjectivesTo estimate the effect of early nutritional support via the parenteral route compared with the enteral route on mortality at 30 days and on incremental cost-effectiveness at 1 year. Secondary objectives were to compare the route of early nutritional support on duration of organ support; infectious and non-infectious complications; critical care unit and acute hospital length of stay; all-cause mortality at critical care unit and acute hospital discharge, at 90 days and 1 year; survival to 90 days and 1 year; nutritional and health-related quality of life, resource use and costs at 90 days and 1 year; and estimated lifetime incremental cost-effectiveness.DesignA pragmatic, open, multicentre, parallel-group randomised controlled trial with an integrated economic evaluation.SettingAdult general critical care units in 33 NHS hospitals in England.Participants2400 eligible patients.InterventionsFive days of early nutritional support delivered via the parenteral (n = 1200) and enteral (n = 1200) route.Main outcome measuresAll-cause mortality at 30 days after randomisation and incremental net benefit (INB) (at £20,000 per quality-adjusted life-year) at 1 year.ResultsBy 30 days, 393 of 1188 (33.1%) patients assigned to receive early nutritional support via the parenteral route and 409 of 1195 (34.2%) assigned to the enteral route had died [p = 0.57; absolute risk reduction 1.15%, 95% confidence interval (CI) −2.65 to 4.94; relative risk 0.97 (0.86 to 1.08)]. At 1 year, INB for the parenteral route compared with the enteral route was negative at −£1320 (95% CI −£3709 to £1069). The probability that early nutritional support via the parenteral route is more cost-effective – given the data – is < 20%. The proportion of patients in the parenteral group who experienced episodes of hypoglycaemia (p = 0.006) and of vomiting (p < 0.001) was significantly lower than in the enteral group. There were no significant differences in the 15 other secondary outcomes and no significant interactions with pre-specified subgroups.LimitationsBlinding of nutritional support was deemed to be impractical and, although the primary outcome was objective, some secondary outcomes, although defined and objectively assessed, may have been more vulnerable to observer bias.ConclusionsThere was no significant difference in all-cause mortality at 30 days for early nutritional support via the parenteral route compared with the enteral route among adults admitted to critical care units in England. On average, costs were higher for the parenteral route, which, combined with similar survival and quality of life, resulted in negative INBs at 1 year.Future workNutritional support is a complex combination of timing, dose, duration, delivery and type, all of which may affect outcomes and costs. Conflicting evidence remains regarding optimum provision to critically ill patients. There is a need to utilise rigorous consensus methods to establish future priorities for basic and clinical research in this area.Trial registrationCurrent Controlled Trials ISRCTN17386141.FundingThis project was funded by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme and will be published in full inHealth Technology Assessment; Vol. 20, No. 28. See the NIHR Journals Library website for further project information.

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A measure of satisfaction with food-related life

Cited by 200 publications

References 21 publications

Who Cares? The Importance of Emotional Connections with Nature to Ensure Food Security and Wellbeing in Cities

Who Cares? The Importance of Emotional Connections with Nature to Ensure Food Security and Wellbeing in Cities

Acceptance of nanotechnology applications and satisfaction with food-related life in southern Chile

A multicentre, randomised controlled trial comparing the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of early nutritional support via the parenteral versus the enteral route in critically ill patients (CALORIES)

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