Perception of healthy eating among adults participating in the Eat-Mot survey in Brazil

Ferreira, Vanessa Alves; Lopes, Aline Cristine Souza; Guiné, Raquel; Ribeiro, Matilde; Pires, Ivy Scorzi Cazelli; Miranda, Lucilene Soares; Magalhães, Rosana

doi:10.33448/rsd-v10i2.12601

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“…Our findings agree with the results reported by other authors as for the determinants of healthy or unhealthy eating patterns. For example, Ferreira et al showed that the perception of healthy eating was negatively associated with being male, having lower education, practicing less physical activity and having a higher body mass index (BMI) [ 66 ]. In a Polish study, male gender and lower level of education were predictors of unhealthy eating patterns.…”

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Eating Choices—The Roles of Motivation and Health Literacy: A Cross-Sectional Study

2022

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Food choices are determined by intrinsic and extrinsic product characteristics, biological and physiological features, psychological factors, and situational and socio-cultural factors. Self-determination theory offers the explanation of health behavior change identifying motivations located along a continuum of autonomy. Another approach to the motivations guiding health behaviors, including food choices, relies on distinguishing thematic categories. Health motivations seem to be an obvious determinant of health behaviors, but final decisions regarding health are also the effect of other types of motivations such as economic, cultural, or emotional. The role of marketing pressure in modern society is perceived to be an important source of motivation for purchasing food and other products. The Motivation–Opportunity–Ability (MOA) framework was initially proposed in order to explain the processing of brand information from advertisements and was later expanded to other areas, including health and nutritional behaviors. The aim of this study was the analysis of determinants of food choices. We have developed a common regression model including six categories of motivations addressed by the Eating Motivations Scale and three health literacy types corresponding with element of ability from the MOA framework, adjusted for socio-demographic factors, health status, and the use of the Internet and TV. The analysis was performed on data from a computer-assisted web-based interviewing (CAWI) survey among 2008 adult Internet users completed in May 2022. The uni- and multivariate linear regression models were developed with the Index of Unhealthy Food Choices (IUFC), calculated based on the responses to items asking about the frequency of the consumption of twelve food categories. Univariate modeling revealed that IUFC is significantly associated with health, food, and e-health literacies and with five out of six eating motivations. However, the multivariate regression model yielded significant associations only for eating motivations but not for the three literacy scores. Health motivation was negatively associated with IUFC (B, standard error (SE): 0.83, 0.07; 95% confidence interval (95% CI): 0.98–0.69), but positively with emotional (B, SE: 0.22, 0.04; 95% CI: 0.14–0.3), economic (B, SE: 0.41, 0.08; 95% CI: 0.25–0.56), and marketing (B, SE: 0.62, 0.08; 95% CI: 0.47–0.78) motivations. Our findings suggest that motivations guiding food choices may prevail over the element of ‘ability’ distinguished in the frameworks and models that explain people’s behaviors, including behaviors relating to health. Thus, it is essential to emphasize development of appropriate motivations and not only to provide knowledge and skills. Furthermore, one should also remember motivations other than health motivations when searching for the determinants of health behaviors.

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Eating Choices—The Roles of Motivation and Health Literacy: A Cross-Sectional Study

2022

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“…Individual perception of healthy eating is a complex construct and reflects personal, cultural, and social experiences, as well as the surrounding environment, the latter being a determinant of food choices [ 7 ]. Food is a manifestation of culture, of the history of each person and that of social groups, closely related with health and well-being, with the potential to prevent or trigger diseases [ 8 , 9 , 10 ].…”

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Food Literacy Scale: Validation through Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis in a Sample of Portuguese University Students

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Eating behaviors and healthy food choices are associated with food literacy, and they have a huge impact on one’s health status. For that reason, to increase food literacy is a way to effectively help individuals make appropriate choices that help maintain health and diminish the incidence of non-communicable diseases. The objective of this work was to test and validate a scale to assess food literacy. The validation was conducted on a sample of 924 Portuguese university students. The scale was composed of 50 items, which were submitted to exploratory and confirmatory factors analysis. The final validated scale corresponded to a second-order model with a global factor called “Food literacy”, which retained 26 items distributed by three factors: F1—literacy about the nutritional composition of foods (10 items), F2—literacy about labelling and food choices (7 items), and F3—literacy about healthy eating practices (9 items). The internal consistency of the scale is very high, with an alpha higher than 0.9, and the Pierson correlations between the three factors and the global are also higher than 0.9. In conclusion, the present scale has been validated and can therefore be utilized to measure food literacy.

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Perception of healthy eating among adults participating in the Eat-Mot survey in Brazil

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Eating Choices—The Roles of Motivation and Health Literacy: A Cross-Sectional Study

Eating Choices—The Roles of Motivation and Health Literacy: A Cross-Sectional Study

Food Literacy Scale: Validation through Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis in a Sample of Portuguese University Students

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