Factors influencing consumer dietary health preventative behaviours

Petrovici, Dan Alex; Ritson, Christopher

doi:10.1186/1471-2458-6-222

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“…For example, in a sample population Harnack et al (1997) found that cancer prevention-related nutritional knowledge corresponded to cancer prevention related dietary behaviour. Petrovici and Ritson (2006) also show that knowledge about nutrition has a positive influence on dietary health preventive behaviour.…”

Section: Knowledge and Behaviourmentioning

confidence: 81%

Understanding behaviour to inform water supply management in developed nations – A review of literature, conceptual model and research agenda

Hurlimann

Dolničar

Meyer

2009

Journal of Environmental Management

115

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Water is a scarce resource in many parts of the developed world. Two solutions are possible to address water scarcity: conservation of existing resources, or the further production of water from new sources e.g. through recycling of wastewater or desalination of seawater. However, the main hurdle to implementation of many of these solutions is often viewed as a lack of public willingness to adopt these alternative water behaviours. Research in this area is therefore crucial. Yet, and possibly due to the interdisciplinary nature of such research, there is currently no comprehensive overview of what has been done before. This study fills this gap by (1) choosing a general consumer behaviour perspective as a starting point, (2) developing a conceptual model of research required in the area of water-related public acceptance studies, (3) identifying eight key water-related behaviours which require future research attention, and (4) reviewing which areas of the conceptual model have been investigated in the past by conducting an extensive literature review of water-related social science research. The review established that the majority of work which has been conducted is located at the crossroads of personal characteristics and behavioural intentions. Significant gaps exist in relation to researching the adoption of a wide range of demand-side water behaviours. This indicates a dominance of supply-side solutions in social-research exploration. The review identifies a number of research needs including: the exploration of actual adoption of water-related behaviours (rather than behavioural intentions); and to widen the scope of water behaviour enquiry to include more demand-side solutions. Given the increasing scarcity of water in many areas of the world, addressing these identified gaps will be of significant importance. Thus our model informs the social-research agenda for water policy. The review established that the majority of work which has been conducted is located at the crossroads of personal characteristics and behavioural intentions. Significant gaps exist in relation to researching the adoption of a wide range of demand-side water behaviours. This indicates a dominance of supply-side solutions in social research exploration. The review identifies a number of research needs including: the exploration of actual adoption of water-related behaviours (rather than behavioural intentions); and to widen the scope of water behaviour enquiry to include more demand-side solutions.Given the increasing scarcity of water in many areas of the world, addressing these identified gaps will be of significant importance. Thus our model informs the social-research agenda for water policy.

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Section: Knowledge and Behaviourmentioning

confidence: 81%

Understanding behaviour to inform water supply management in developed nations – A review of literature, conceptual model and research agenda

Hurlimann

Dolničar

Meyer

2009

Journal of Environmental Management

115

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“…Overall, these studies indicate that use of nutrition labels among the general population is generally high and typically above 50 %. Age A majority of studies found that middle-aged or younger adults were more likely to use nutrition labels than were older individuals (25,32,37,42,44,47,(69)(70)(71)(72)(73)(74)(80)(81)(82)(83)(84) , with several exceptions (20,30,35,85,86) . For example, a large survey of the nutrition perceptions of Americans found that older participants tended to trust nutrition labels as a source of accurate nutrition information to a less extent than younger respondents (44) .…”

Section: Prevalence Of Label Usementioning

confidence: 99%

Nutrition labels on pre-packaged foods: a systematic review

Campos

Doxey

Hammond

2011

Public Health Nutr.

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“…Most of the predictor concepts and the outcome variable label use were assessed in scales consisting of several items (see Table 1). We based the items of these scales on several previous studies that had examined knowledge, attitudes and beliefs in a health and nutrition context, or numeracy (15,(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28) , and completed them with our own questions. Table 1 presents the scales used in the study with one item example each, the internal reliability, mean sum score, number of respondents and original sources*.…”

Section: Questionnairementioning

confidence: 99%

The role of health-related, motivational and sociodemographic aspects in predicting food label use: a comprehensive study

Hess

Visschers

Siegrist

2011

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: Previous studies focused on a limited number of determinants of food label use. We therefore tested a comprehensive model of food label use consisting of sociodemographic, health-related and motivating variables. These three predictor groups were chosen based on the previous literature and completed with new predictors not yet examined in a comprehensive study of frequency of label use. Design: We sent questionnaires to a random sample of households in the Germanspeaking part of Switzerland. Setting: The respondents filled in the questionnaire at home and returned it by mail. Subjects: We analysed the data of 1162 filled-in questionnaires (response rate 5 38 %). Of the respondents, 637 were women (55 %), and their mean age was 53?54 (SD 15?68) years. Results: Health-related variables were the most important group of predictors of label use, followed by motivating factors and sociodemographic variables. Placing importance on health, healthy eating and nutritional value of food, perceived vulnerability for diet-related diseases, nutrition knowledge, numeracy and gender were positively associated with frequency of food label use whereas shopping habits and seeing eating as something positive were negative predictors of frequency of label use. Conclusions: People's health consciousness should be raised in order to increase the frequency of food label use. Furthermore, it should be stressed that reading labels and keeping a healthy diet do not contradict 'good eating', and that both of these aspects can be combined with the help of food labels. Keywords Food label Nutrition table Comprehensive model Predictors of food label useNutrition labels on food products are often praised as an important instrument for health promotion and prevention of diseases associated with overweight and obesity (1)(2)(3)(4) . To find out how this preventive strategy can be used optimally and where the potential starting points for further improvement could be, it is very important to understand what determines use of food labels. This knowledge would help public health communicators to decide to whom and how they need to promote food label use. However, to our knowledge, existing studies investigating food label use have focused mainly on either sociodemographic and economic variables or on health-related factors. No study has systematically included factors inhibiting label use. The aims of the present study were, therefore, to provide a comprehensive framework of determinants of nutrition label use and to shed light on the motivators and inhibitors of nutrition label use. Thereby, we paid attention to three groups of potential determinants of label use: (i) a person's sociodemographic and economic background; (ii) healthrelated aspects; and (iii) factors which discourage people from using food labels (see Fig. 1). We now discuss the relevant factors of each of these three determinants, based on previous studies. One difficulty of studying label use is the number of different labels in the different international marke...

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Factors influencing consumer dietary health preventative behaviours

Cited by 107 publications

References 40 publications

Understanding behaviour to inform water supply management in developed nations – A review of literature, conceptual model and research agenda

Understanding behaviour to inform water supply management in developed nations – A review of literature, conceptual model and research agenda

Nutrition labels on pre-packaged foods: a systematic review

The role of health-related, motivational and sociodemographic aspects in predicting food label use: a comprehensive study

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