A qualitative research study comparing nutrition advice communicated by registered Dietitian and non-Registered Dietitian bloggers

Chan, Taylor; Drake, Teresa; Vollmer, Rachel L.

doi:10.1080/17538068.2020.1749351

Cited by 21 publications

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“…Healthy diets was selected because food has a high profile within the wider digital health discourse [Cavusoglu and Demirbag-Kaplan, 2017]. Research is emerging to suggest that the digital discourse on healthy diets also contains a diverse range of communicators, including: industry [Pilgrim and Bohnet-Joschko, 2019;Klassen et al, 2018], health professionals, such as dieticians [Saboia et al, 2018;Helm and Jones, 2016] and those from a range of related professions including, alternative health practitioners, personal trainers, and 'culinary experts' [Chan, Drake and Vollmer, 2020;Saboia et al, 2018]. With both climate change and healthy diets, this research is intended to provide a more holistic picture of the actors communicating online and the platforms being used.…”

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Exploring the digital media ecology: insights from a study of healthy diets and climate change communication on digital and social media

Weitkamp¹,

Milani²,

Ridgway³

et al. 2021

JCOM

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This study explores the types of actors visible in the digital science communication landscape in the Netherlands, Serbia and the U.K. Using the Koru model of science communication as a basis, we consider how science communicators craft their messages and which channels they are using to reach audiences. The study took as case studies the topics of climate change and healthy diets to enable comparison across countries, topics and platforms. These findings are compared with the results from a survey of over 200 science communication practitioners based in these countries. We find that although traditional media are challenged by the variety of different new entrants into the digital landscape, our results suggest that the media and journalists remain highly visible. In addition, our survey results suggest that many science communicators may struggle to gain traction in the crowded digital ecology, and in particular, that relatively few scientists and research institutions and universities are achieving a high profile in the public digital media ecology of science communication.

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Exploring the digital media ecology: insights from a study of healthy diets and climate change communication on digital and social media

Weitkamp¹,

Milani²,

Ridgway³

et al. 2021

JCOM

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“…In total, 11 articles were found to be relevant to the research question. 16,[22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31] Nine were research studies from scientific databases. 16,[22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31] Four of these centred on blogs, 23,24,28,30 ((title:"social media") OR (abstract:"social media") OR (title:"influencer") OR (abstract:"influencer")) AND ((title:"nutrition*") OR (abstract:"nutrition*") OR (title:"diet*") OR (abstract:"diet*")) AND ((title:"educate") OR (title:"education") OR (title:"influence*") OR (title:"campaign*") OR (title:"program*") OR (title:"promot*") OR (title:"engag*") OR (title:"strateg*") OR (title:"communicat*") OR abstract:"educate" OR (abstract:"education") OR (abstract:"influence*") OR (abstract:"campaign*") OR (abstract:"program*") OR (abstract:"promot*") OR (abstract:"engag*") OR (abstract:"strateg*") OR (abstract:"communicat*"))…”

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“…22 Seven of the research studies involved qualitative and/or quantitative content analysis of SMI accounts. 22,24,25,[27][28][29][30] Bissonnette-Maheux et al 23 and Jenkins et al 26 gathered participant feedback on perceptions of SMI communicating nutrition information for their findings. Two articles from the marketing/business databases were considered relevant.…”

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Communication of nutrition information by influencers on social media: A scoping review

Rogers

Wilkinson

Truby

et al. 2022

Health Prom J of Aust

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Issue addressed: Although government promoted public health, social media and media campaigns have communicated nutrition information, the Australian population remains chronic under-consumers of fruit and vegetables and overconsumers of ultra-processed foods. This scoping review aimed to determine how social media influencers (SMI) communicate nutrition information and the factors that influence the popularity of messages. Identified factors could inform how governments may utilise social media to impact positively on food choices.Methods: Nine databases were searched in the past 5 years (2016-2021). After relevant sources were identified, entire texts of the grey literature and the "Results" sections of the academic literature were coded. Using Microsoft Word, each key feature of the relevant text was highlighted, and the relevant code was recorded. Inductive coding was utilised where codes were created based on the text itself. These codes were then sorted iteratively into relevant themes and subthemes.Results: Eleven studies were included. From these sources, five themes were identified. These were, (i) promoting dietary change, (ii) certain modes/styles of content delivery, (iii) an attractive individual, (iv) language features and (v) appearing connected to the audience. Conclusion:SMI are selective in their content and communication techniques to ensure their nutrition messages are popular with social media users. These methods exhibited by SMI could inform strategies to build trust in government messages about food and nutrition.

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“…Additionally, often, social media influencers are selling something, and it is not always clear if the aim of the 'advice' is for personal profit [11]. Regardless of credentials or expertise, anyone can disseminate nutrition information online, putting the public at risk of receiving unreliable and harmful advice [12]. There is lack of research on who New Zealanders seek out for food-and health-related information and how this impacts their dietary patterns.…”

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Who We Seek and What We Eat? Sources of Food Choice Inspirations and Their Associations with Adult Dietary Patterns before and during the COVID-19 Lockdown in New Zealand

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Research shows the shaping of food choices often occurs at home, with the family widely recognised as significant in food decisions. However, in this digital age, our eating habits and decision-making processes are also determined by smartphone apps, celebrity chefs, and social media. The ‘COVID Kai Survey’ online questionnaire assessed cooking and shopping behaviours among New Zealanders during the 2020 COVID-19 ‘lockdown’ using a cross-sectional study design. This paper examines how sources of food choice inspirations (cooking-related advice and the reasons for recipe selection) are related to dietary patterns before and during the lockdown. Of the 2977 participants, those influenced by nutrition and health experts (50.9% before; 53.9% during the lockdown) scored higher for the healthy dietary pattern. Participants influenced by family and friends (35% before; 29% during the lockdown) had significantly higher scores for the healthy and the meat dietary patterns, whereas participants influenced by celebrity cooks (3.8% before; 5.2% during the lockdown) had significantly higher scores in the meat dietary pattern. There was no evidence that associations differed before and during the lockdown. The lockdown was related to modified food choice inspiration sources, notably an increase in ‘comforting’ recipes as a reason for recipe selection (75.8%), associated with higher scoring in the unhealthy dietary pattern during the lockdown. The lockdown in New Zealand saw an average decrease in nutritional quality of diets in the ‘COVID Kai Survey’, which could be partly explained by changes in food choice inspiration sources.

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A qualitative research study comparing nutrition advice communicated by registered Dietitian and non-Registered Dietitian bloggers

Cited by 21 publications

References 22 publications

Exploring the digital media ecology: insights from a study of healthy diets and climate change communication on digital and social media

Exploring the digital media ecology: insights from a study of healthy diets and climate change communication on digital and social media

Communication of nutrition information by influencers on social media: A scoping review

Who We Seek and What We Eat? Sources of Food Choice Inspirations and Their Associations with Adult Dietary Patterns before and during the COVID-19 Lockdown in New Zealand

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