Development of a Questionnaire to Assess People’s Food Choices Determinants

Ferrão, Ana Cristina; Guiné, Raquel; Correia, Paula; Ferreira, Manuela; Lima, João

doi:10.2174/1573401313666171117150648

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“…The instrument used for this research was developed by Ferrão et al [ 18 ] with the purpose of addressing different groups of food motivations. The EATMOT project uses a questionnaire that was developed to explore in what way some personal, psychological and social motivations can influence food choices and eating practices.…”

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“…The EATMOT project uses a questionnaire that was developed to explore in what way some personal, psychological and social motivations can influence food choices and eating practices. The questionnaire was prepared and previously validated for a study carried out only in Portugal [ 18 ], and then it was translated into the native languages of the 15 participating countries, following a back-translation methodology for validation. For the translation process, all the issues related to the possible cultural influences in the interpretation of the questions were verified.…”

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“…The development of a valid and reliable instrument for assessing the factors taken into consideration by consumers when making their food choices is not only a matter of purely academic interest, but it also impacts many different aspects of society, namely health, economy, society, environment, just to name a few. The use of a validated instrument allows for reliability in the data gathered, and guarantees its applicability on a broader scale, particularly when that validation is carried out with data obtained from different sources, like for example different countries [ 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 ].…”

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Study about Food Choice Determinants According to Six Types of Conditioning Motivations in a Sample of 11,960 Participants

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Many aspects linked to personal characteristics, society and culture constitute some of the motivators that drive food choice. The aim of this work was to determine in what extent the eating behaviors of individuals are shaped by six different types of determinants, namely: health, emotions, price and availability, society and culture, environment and politics, and marketing and commercials. This is a descriptive cross-sectional study, involving a non-probabilistic sample of 11,960 participants from 16 countries. The objective of this work was to validate the questionnaire, so as to make it suitable for application in different contexts and different countries. For that, six scales were considered for validation by confirmatory factor analysis with structural equation modelling. The obtained results showed that the six individual scales evaluated presented good or very good fitting indices, with saturation in goodness-of-fit index in all cases. The values of chi-square ratio were 6.921 (for health), 0.987 (environment), 0.610 (emotions) and 0.000 in the remaining cases (convenience, society, marketing). Furthermore, the fit was perfect, with saturation for all indices, in three of the six models (convenience, society and marketing). The results of this wok allowed the validation of the six scales, and the assessing of different types of factors that can influence food choices and eating behaviors, namely in the categories: health, emotions, price and availability, society and culture, environment and politics, and marketing and commercials.

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Study about Food Choice Determinants According to Six Types of Conditioning Motivations in a Sample of 11,960 Participants

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“…The questionnaire used in this study was first validated for the Portuguese population [ 28 , 29 , 30 ] and then applied in other countries, after translation and adaptation. The questionnaire was applied in Brazil in Portuguese and translated into Spanish, following a back-translation methodology for validation.…”

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Perceptions about Healthy Eating and Emotional Factors Conditioning Eating Behaviour: A Study Involving Portugal, Brazil and Argentina

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Leal

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This study analysed the perceptions about healthy eating as well as some emotional factors conditioning eating behaviour in a sample of people from Portugal, Brazil and Argentina. This is a descriptive cross-sectional study involving a non-probabilistic sample of 2501 participant. Data was collected through a questionnaire applied to adult citizens residing in their respective countries. For data analysis chi-square tests were used, and associations were evaluated by Cramer’s coefficients. Moreover, a tree classification analysis was conducted for variables related with perceptions about healthy eating and emotional conditioning of eating behaviour. The results revealed that participants’ perceptions are generally in agreement with healthy eating. However, significant differences were found between countries (p = 0.018) and by levels of education (p < 0.0005), with a more accurate perception for Portugal and at the university level. The existence of statistically significant associations between all sociodemographic variables considered and the conditioning of eating behaviour by emotional motivations should be noted. Tree classification analysis showed that the most important discriminant sociodemographic variable for perceptions about healthy eating was education, followed by professional area and country, while the most relevant discriminants for emotional conditioning of eating behaviour were country and then living environment and sex. Thus, it is important to consider these variables in initiatives that aim to promote adherence to behaviours that contribute to the health and well-being of the population.

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“…The MD has been linked with many beneficial health effects, but some people are driving away from the traditional MD, consuming higher convenience and readily available fast, but unhealthier, foods The information about Lebanese eating habits is limited, and therefore, it is very important to develop studies in this area, to become aware of Lebanese eating practices and also to promote efficient health strategies. This study is an extension of the multinational project entitled "Psycho-social motivations associated with food choices and eating practices (EATMOT)," carried out in different countries to study some psychic and social motivations that influence people's food choices and eating behaviors (Ferrão et al 2019b;Guiné et al 2019aGuiné et al , 2019b. The main objective of this specific study was to evaluate whether Lebanese people were motivated toward a healthy diet and in what way their sociodemographic differences could influence their perception on it.…”

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Food choice motivations and perception of a healthy diet in a developing Mediterranean country

Boustani

Guiné

2020

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This study investigated the Lebanese consumers’ knowledge about healthy food perception and their food motivations according to gender and also to environmental, social, and health behaviors. The survey consisted of a longitudinal study undertaken on a sample of 450 participants from which only 410 questionnaires were considered to be valid. For the analysis of the data, basic descriptive statistics were used, complemented with statistical tests (Student t-test for comparisons between two groups and ANOVA for comparisons between three or more groups). Finally, analyses were done to evaluate the importance of healthy food perception among these people, and the possible sociodemographic variables are as follows: age group, level of education, gender, and living environment. The results allowed identifying which types of factors mostly influence people's food choices. They revealed that both the economic and availability motivations (mean scores 2.83 and 2.98 for female and male participants, respectively) and the social and cultural motivations (mean scores 2.90 and 3.09) have less impact on the perception of a healthy diet than the healthy motivations (mean scores 3.48 and 3.29) and the environmental and political motivations (mean scores 3.35 and 3.43), this last being also the highest expression and without statistical gender differences. This work is relevant because it highlights the food motivation factors that influence people’s perception about a healthy diet in a developing country, facing social and economic crisis in addition to many gender inequalities, yet having the highest education levels in the region in addition to its multiethnical diversity and religiosity.

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Development of a Questionnaire to Assess People’s Food Choices Determinants

Cited by 27 publications

References 44 publications

Study about Food Choice Determinants According to Six Types of Conditioning Motivations in a Sample of 11,960 Participants

Study about Food Choice Determinants According to Six Types of Conditioning Motivations in a Sample of 11,960 Participants

Perceptions about Healthy Eating and Emotional Factors Conditioning Eating Behaviour: A Study Involving Portugal, Brazil and Argentina

Food choice motivations and perception of a healthy diet in a developing Mediterranean country

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