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Gender differences in the influence of food safety and health concerns on dietary and physical activity habits
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2013
Can social cognitive theory constructs explain socio-economic variations in adolescent eating behaviours? A mediation analysis
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 16-10-2008
DOI: 10.1093/HER/CYN048
Abstract: Adolescents of low socio-economic position (SEP) are less likely than those of higher SEP to consume diets in line with current dietary recommendations. The reasons for these SEP variations remain poorly understood. We investigated the mechanisms underlying socio-economic variations in adolescents' eating behaviours using a theoretically derived explanatory model. Data were obtained from a community-based s le of 2529 adolescents aged 12-15 years, from 37 secondary schools in Victoria, Australia. Adolescents completed a web-based survey assessing their eating behaviours, self-efficacy for healthy eating, perceived importance of nutrition and health, social modelling and support and the availability of foods in the home. Parents provided details of maternal education level, which was used as an indicator of SEP. All social cognitive constructs assessed mediated socio-economic variations in at least one indicator of adolescents' diet. Cognitive factors were the strongest mediator of socio-economic variations in fruit intakes, while for energy-dense snack foods and fast foods, availability of energy-dense snacks at home tended to be strong mediators. Social cognitive theory provides a useful framework for understanding socio-economic variations in adolescent's diet and might guide public health programmes and policies focusing on improving adolescent nutrition among those experiencing socio-economic disadvantage.
Why do they like that? And can I do anything about it? The nature and correlates of parents' attributions and self-efficacy beliefs about preschool children's food preferences
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2013
DOI: 10.1016/J.APPET.2013.02.020
Abstract: Children's food preferences influence their food intakes, which then have important effects on their health status. Presently little is understood about the aetiology of children's food preferences within families. Parental beliefs are important in many domains of socialisation although their role in the development of children's food preferences has seldom been investigated. Parents of 2-5 year old children participated in semi-structured qualitative interviews, which were analysed with content analysis. The parents either had children with healthy food preferences (i.e. closely aligned with dietary guidelines) (N=20), unhealthy food preferences (i.e. not closely aligned with dietary guidelines) (N=18), or high levels of food neophobia (N=19). Parents described their beliefs about why children like and dislike foods (their attributions) and their ability to influence children's food preferences (their self-efficacy). Children's food preferences were attributed to (a) the influence of children's characteristics (e.g. food neophobia level and personality), (b) sensory attributes of foods (e.g. texture and appearance), and (c) socialisation experiences (e.g. peer modelling and parental feeding behaviours). Results provide preliminary evidence of differences in parents' attributions and self-efficacy beliefs in the feeding domain and highlight the need for greater understanding of the ways in which parents' beliefs affect children's food preferences.
Food industry awareness of consumers' plant food beliefs
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 08-2005
DOI: 10.1108/00070700510610977
Abstract: The aims of this study were to examine farmers' and food processors' alignment with consumers' views about plant foods and their intentions to produce plant foods. Data on plant food beliefs were collected from mail surveys of farmers, food processing businesses and random population s les of adults in Victoria, Australia. There were strong differences between consumers' beliefs and farmers' and food processors' perceptions of consumers' beliefs. For ex le, a higher proportion of farmers and processors believed that consumers would eat more plant foods if more convenience‐oriented plant‐based meals were available than consumers themselves agreed. Farmers appeared to be more aware of or aligned with consumers' beliefs than were processors. One‐ and two‐thirds of farmers and processors respectively were planning to grow or process more plant foods, which bodes well for the availability of plant and plant‐based foods. Study limitations include the small food industry s le sizes and possible response bias, although analysis suggests the latter was low. Future research could survey a larger s le of food industry representatives, including those from other sectors (e.g. retailers). Education of consumers and industry groups on plant foods and better lines of communication from consumer to processor to farmer, are required. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first study to examine farmers' and food processors' awareness of consumers' beliefs about plant foods. This issue is important for those involved with the production and marketing of plant foods or with food, farming and health policy.
PRESENT AND DESIRED BODY WEIGHTS OF AUSTRALIAN ADULTS: A CAUSE FOR CONCERN?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-02-2010
DOI: 10.1111/J.1753-6405.1987.TB00133.X
Abstract: Recent successes in the determination of G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) structures have relied on the ability of receptor variants to overcome difficulties in expression and purification. Therefore, the quick screening of functionally expressed stable receptor variants is vital. We developed a platform using Saccharomyces cerevisiae for the rapid construction and evaluation of functional GPCR variants for structural studies. This platform enables us to perform a screening cycle from construction to evaluation of variants within 6-7 days. We firstly confirmed the functional expression of 25 full-length class A GPCRs in this platform. Then, in order to improve the expression level and stability, we generated and evaluated the variants of the four GPCRs (hADRB2, hCHRM2, hHRH1 and hNTSR1). These stabilized receptor variants improved both functional activity and monodispersity. Finally, the expression level of the stabilized hHRH1 in Pichia pastoris was improved up to 65 pmol/mg from negligible expression of the functional full-length receptor in S. cerevisiae at first screening. The stabilized hHRH1 was able to be purified for use in crystallization trials. We demonstrated that the S. cerevisiae system should serve as an easy-to-handle and rapid platform for the construction and evaluation of GPCR variants. This platform can be a powerful prescreening method to identify a suitable GPCR variant for crystallography.
The availability of snack food displays that may trigger impulse purchases in Melbourne supermarkets
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 15-03-2012
Patterns of Food Safety Knowledge among Australians: A Latent Class Approach
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2013
Characteristics of soy bread users and their beliefs about soy products
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-02-2002
DOI: 10.1046/J.1440-6047.2002.00284.X
Abstract: A two-stage random telephone/mail survey was conducted during the last quarter of 1998 among Adelaide residents to determine consumers' use of soy bread and other soy products and their health expectations of soy products. One in five (21%) of 1477 telephone subscribers usually consumed soy bread and related soy products. Comparisons of soy bread consumers and non-consumers, based on the mail survey s le, showed that more soy bread consumers used dietary supplements and ate low fat and vegetarian diets, though their experiences of ill health were similar. Soy bread consumers held stronger universalism (pro-nature) values than non-consumers. They also held more positive expectations about the benefits of soy consumption, including reductions in menstrual and menopausal symptoms, increased bowel regularity and reductions in the risk of heart disease and cancer. The findings are discussed in relation to the psychology of dietary supplementation, values orientations and physiological plausibility. Further investigations are suggested.
Retirement Planning and Expectations of Australian Babyboomers
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-2007
Abstract: The "babyboomer" generation, those who were born between 1946 and 1965, account for over 30% of the population in Australia, and it is no surprise that the government is concerned about the financial implications for future healthcare costs. While many babyboomers are more financially secure than previous generations have been on account of compulsory superannuation contributions made over the past 15 years, there are still some who are financially vulnerable and expect to rely on government pensions and welfare assistance. Changes to family structures and job security also mean that those who are less financially secure will need social support. Using an ecological framework model, we explored the retirement expectations and experiences of some Australian babyboomers through focus groups and in idual interviews to identify key issues and their plans to address these issues. Four main themes are reported in this paper: retirement attitudes and expectations, finances, health, and food. The results suggested that for many persons retirement equated freedom. Little future planning was undertaken for retirement other than contributing to superannuation schemes, and expectations were reported in general terms, such as wanting to remain independent and healthy and to have time to socialize and travel.
The relationships between eating habits, smoking and alcohol consumption, and body mass index among baby boomers
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2012
DOI: 10.1016/J.APPET.2011.09.003
Abstract: The study was to examine the eating habits of baby boomers and to investigate the relationship of these and other lifestyle habits on their reported body mass indices (BMI). A questionnaire was administered by mail to a random s le of people aged 40 years and above, drawn from the Electoral Rolls in Victoria, Australia. Part of the questionnaire contained questions about the respondents' eating habits, smoking status and alcohol use, as well as self reported heights and weights and demographic characteristics. Eight hundred and forty-four people (out of 1470) returned usable questionnaires. Statistically significant differences were found between the eating habits of men and women. Generally, more women snacked on high energy dense foods (e.g., confectionery). More men took larger mouthfuls than women. The eating habits of women appeared to be more formal than men's. Four constructs named: unconstrained eating, traditional eating style, gulping, and chocolate and junk food were derived from the eating behaviour literature. Structural equation modelling showed that eating behaviour was associated with BMI along with current smoking, ex-smoking status, alcohol consumption, and demographics. Eating habits and other lifestyle behaviours appear to be associated with BMI though in different pathways for men and women.
The cognitive contexts of beliefs about the healthiness of meat
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 02-2002
DOI: 10.1079/PHN2001240
Abstract: The overall aim of this study was to examine a variety of belief and demographic factors that are associated with the perception that meat is intrinsically unhealthy. State-wide survey (written questionnaire) that included questions on meat and nutrition beliefs, perceived barriers and benefits of vegetarian diets, personal values, number of vegetarian friends and family members, and use and trust of health/nutrition/food information sources. South Australia. Six hundred and one randomly selected South Australians and 106 non-randomly selected vegetarians and semi-vegetarians. For all respondents considered as a group, the most important predictors of the belief that meat is intrinsically unhealthy were the perceived benefits of vegetarian diets (all positive predictors). These included: (1) the perceived links between vegetarianism, peace and increased contentment (2) animal welfare and environmental benefits and (3) health benefits. There were differences between different dietary groups however. For non-vegetarians, social concerns about vegetarianism (positive) were most important, followed by health and non-health benefits (positive) of vegetarianism. Red meat appreciation was the strongest (positive) predictor for vegetarians, with health benefits of vegetarianism (positive) and education (negative predictor) also important. The implications of the findings for health and other issues are discussed. Judgements about the healthiness of meat are likely to be related to moral and environmental beliefs and, for non-vegetarians, to social concerns about vegetarianism, in addition to health beliefs. These need to be considered if any attempts are made to influence meat consumption.
Benefits and barriers to the consumption of a vegetarian diet in Australia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 08-2003
DOI: 10.1079/PHN2002452
Abstract: The aim of this study was to examine consumers' perceived benefits and barriers to the consumption of a vegetarian diet. Survey (written questionnaire) that included questions on perceived benefits and barriers to the consumption of a vegetarian diet. South Australia. Six hundred and one randomly selected South Australians. The main perceived barriers to adopting a vegetarian diet were enjoying eating meat and an unwillingness to alter eating habits. This was the case for men, women and all age groups, although there were sex and age differences present in over half of the barrier items. For ex le, family food preferences were a greater problem for women than for men, while the oldest group was more likely to agree that humans are ‘meant’ to eat meat than the younger groups. The main benefits associated with vegetarian diets were health benefits: increased fruit and vegetable intake, decreased saturated fat intake, weight control. Animal welfare-related benefits and disease prevention were also important. Age and sex differences were apparent, although age differences were more important than sex differences. The majority of respondents perceived there to be health benefits associated with the consumption of a vegetarian diet, but also, predictably, enjoyed eating meat. Given this, it is likely that interest in plant-based diets that contain some meat is higher than that in no-meat diets. An understanding of the perceived benefits and barriers of consuming a vegetarian diet will allow the implementation of strategies to influence meat and vegetarianism beliefs, dietary behaviour and, hence, public health.
Nutrition care for adult cardiac patients: Australian general practitioners' perceptions of their roles
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 12-2008
Abstract: Australia has implemented systematic managed care for patients with chronic disease. Little is known about how GPs perceive their nutrition care role in this system. To examine GPs' perceptions of their roles in the nutrition care of cardiac patients and to identify factors that influence their role. Multi-methods research design. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with a s le (n = 30) GPs Victoria, Australia. The resulting narratives were used to develop a quantitative questionnaire to survey a random s le of GPs. Principal components analysis was conducted to reduce the role items to a small number of underlying dimensions. The association between roles and demographic variables were examined using stepwise multiple regressions. In all, 248 GPs (30% response) participated. Three main roles were established: Influencing, Coordinating and Nutrition Educator role. Together, the roles explained 54% of the total variance. Demographic variables were not associated with these roles. The majority (mean = 88%) endorsed the items which loaded on to the Influencing and Coordinating (mean = 49%) roles. Short consultation time, use of prescribed medications and perception of patient attendance at cardiac rehabilitation reduced the priority for nutrition education. This study highlights the importance of developing more effective team care arrangements for patients with chronic disease and working with the medical education colleges to develop education resources for doctors that include an explanation of the non-pharmaceutical as well as the pharmaceutical treatment for each chronic disease condition.
Nutrition communication: Do we need a new outlook?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-09-2002
Evaluation of the New Zealand Heart Food Festival 1988–9
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 1990
Lay people's views of school food policy options: associations with confidence, personal values and demographics
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 12-2006
DOI: 10.1093/HER/CYL138
Abstract: A random population survey administered by mail to examine lay people's views of children's food policies and their associations with demographics, personal values and confidence in authorities was conducted among adults in Victoria, Australia. Three hundred and seventy-seven people responded (response rate 57.6%). The questionnaire contained 35 items about children's healthy eating policy options plus details like personal values, confidence and demographic items. There was widespread support for healthy school food policies. The strongest support was for life skills education and school-based nutrition and physical education programmes. Many age-related associations indicated that people >48 years were more in favour of healthy eating policies than younger people. There were fewer statistically significant associations with parent status and sex. In contrast, many associations showed that respondents with strong equity-harmony values and those with least confidence in the authorities were most in favour of healthy eating policies for schoolchildren. It is concluded that there is widespread support for school-based health and nutrition education and for active school food policies. However, differences between demographic and values groups suggest the need for caution in the promotion of public health nutrition initiatives among schoolchildren.
Income differences in food consumption in the 1995 Australian National Nutrition Survey
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-09-2003
Influences on meat consumption in Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2001
Do children's food preferences align with dietary recommendations?
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 11-2007
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980007699546
Abstract: To examine how Australian children's reported everyday food preferences reflect dietary recommendations, and the impact of sociodemographic factors on these associations. Cross-sectional survey. Three hundred and seventy-one parents of children aged 2–5 years, recruited from three socio-economic groups in two Australian cities, completed a survey on their child's liking for 176 foods and drinks on a 5-point Likert scale in addition to demographic descriptors. Preferences were compared with the recommendations of the Dietary Guidelines for Children and Adolescents in Australia and the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating . Foods in the Extra Foods (non-nutritious foods) and Cereals groups of the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating were highly liked (mean: 4.02 and 4.01, respectively), whilst foods in the Vegetables group were liked least (mean: 3.01). A large percentage of foods in the Cereals and Extra Foods groups were liked (64% and 56%, respectively) in contrast to the other food groups, especially Vegetables (7%). Children liked foods that were higher in sugar ( r = 0.29, P 0.0001) and more energy-dense ( r = 0.34, P 0.0001) but not those higher in saturated fat ( r = 0.16, P = 0.03), total fat ( r = 0.12, P = 0.12) or sodium ( r = 0.10, P = 0.18). Sociodemographic variables (e.g. socio-economic status, parental education, children's age and sex) explained little of the variation in children's food preferences. Australian pre-school children's food preferences align with dietary guidelines in some respects, but not others. Interventions are needed to shift children's preferences away from non-nutritious foods that are high in energy density and sugar, and towards vegetables and fruits.
Groups of mothers based on feeding practices and their associations with dietary quality of pre-school children: A latent profile analysis
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.1016/J.APPET.2021.105754
Abstract: Parents' feeding practices are associated with children's food intake. However, little is known about the patterns of feeding practices used by groups of mothers or how these groupings of practices influence children's dietary intake. Therefore, the aims of this study are to classify and describe groups of mothers according to their patterns of feeding practices and to examine the associations between the groups of maternal feeding practices and pre-school children's dietary quality. In 2018, 1349 mothers based in Australia of children aged 2-5 years completed an online survey including validated measures of nine feeding practices and dietary quality, measured using thirteen summed dietary items. Latent profile analysis was used to identify distinct groups of mothers who shared similar feeding practices. Linear regression models were fitted to examine associations between the feeding practice profiles and child dietary quality. A three-profile model was chosen based on interpretation, profile size and statistical model fit criteria. Profile 1 had lower mean scores of structure-related feeding practices than the other profiles profile 2 had mean scores reflecting slightly higher use of most structure-related feeding practices and lower mean scores of some non-responsive feeding practices profile 3 had higher mean scores of non-responsive feeding practices than the other profiles. Profile 1 (-2.95, CI: 3.97 -1.92) and profile 3 (-2.81, CI: 3.49 -2.13) had lower mean child dietary quality scores compared with profile 2. Profile 2, which reflected the most engagement in structure-related feeding practices combined with least non-responsive feeding practices, was associated with higher child diet quality, compared with the other two profiles. The identification of these unique profiles could help to tailor future interventions to consider patterns of feeding practices used by groups of mothers.
School and anaemia prevention: current reality and opportunities--a Tanzanian case study
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 12-2001
Abstract: Iron deficiency anaemia is highly endemic in rural areas of Tanzania and in many developing countries. Its prevention among school children requires greater dissemination of knowledge of anaemia among children, teachers, parents and the general community. Associated improvements in the hygienic status of domestic and school environments are also often required. One-hundred-and-thirty-one anaemic children, 90 parents and 76 teachers were interviewed to ascertain their understanding of anaemia. Most children and parents had little knowledge of the symptoms, causes and prevention of anaemia. In addition to their iron-deficient diets, more than half of the children went to school without something to eat at breakfast and during school hours. However, parents and teachers were willing to work together to provide meals for the children. Poor sanitation in the children's homes and in schools was a little recognized factor which could pose a serious risk of anaemia. In addition, inadequate sanitation facilities and poor quality of physical environment prevailed both in the children's homes and in schools. The findings suggest the need for the establishment of a health-promoting schools network to provide a comprehensive framework for health promotion in schools as well as in homes in Tanzania and in other developing countries. Schools can be an ideal setting to positively influence a community's health status. Partnerships among teachers, parents and the wider community are required to identify, prioritize and ameliorate health problems.
AN ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECTS OF TWO PHYSICAL ACTIVITY PROGRAMMES ON CORONARY HEART DISEASE RISK FACTORS IN PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-02-2010
Kiwis, food and cholesterol: New Zealand consumers' food concerns and awareness of nutritional guidelines
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-02-2010
DOI: 10.1111/J.1753-6405.1991.TB00350.X
Abstract: New Zealand food shoppers' nutrition and food concerns and attitudes to cholesterol screening were assessed during four consecutive surveys. Over 1000 shoppers were interviewed during each survey, as part of the evaluation of the Heart Food Festival in 1988-89. Over two thirds of the respondents reported that they usually read the ingredients label on food products. Over a third were concerned about the presence of additives in foods (36 per cent), along with fat (27 per cent), salt (18 per cent), sugar (14 per cent) and fibre (5 per cent). Over half indicated that reductions in fat intake would make their diets healthier. One in five reported they were aware of the New Zealand nutrition guidelines. Only one third of respondents could correctly identify the bottom row of the healthy food pyramid. Almost one in eight respondents knew their cholesterol levels and a further two thirds wished to know them. Few differences were observed between the responses of early and late school leavers. In contrast, pronounced differences were associated with gender and the respondents' age groups. The results suggest that awareness of links between nutrition and heart disease is widespread. Educational and empowerment strategies are required to translate such awareness into dietary change.
Consumers' health perceptions of three types of milk: a survey in Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2003
DOI: 10.1016/S0195-6663(03)00004-7
Abstract: A survey was conducted among 345 randomly selected shoppers in Melbourne, Australia, to identify their perceptions of the healthiness of whole milk, reduced fat milk and soy milk and to investigate demographic influences on health perceptions and types of milk consumption. The survey revealed major differences in shoppers' perceptions of the three types of milk along the themes of bone health, weight control, disease prevention, and, allergy and disease causation. Generally whole milk was perceived more negatively than soy or reduced fat milk. There were few demographic differences in the shoppers' perceptions of the three products. Reported consumption of reduced fat milk was more frequent among women and elderly people, and whole milk consumption was positively related to parenthood. The findings suggest that previous marketing and education c aigns have been effective but the widespread uncertainty and erroneous beliefs about milk products suggest that many consumers have not assimilated new findings about milk products. This represents a challenge for industry and public health practitioners.
COVID-19 & culinary behaviours of Australian household food gatekeepers: A qualitative study
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2021
Australian ten year olds' perceptions of foods: II. Social status effects
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-1984
Strategies used by parents to influence their children's food preferences
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2015
DOI: 10.1016/J.APPET.2015.02.038
Abstract: Food preferences are important determinants of children's food intakes. Parental feeding behaviours have a significant influence on the development of children's food preferences. The aim of the present study was to describe the ways in which parents attempt to influence their children's food preferences. Parents of 2-5 year old children participated in semi-structured qualitative interviews, which were transcribed and content analysed using a thematic coding manual. The parents described the ways in which they tried to influence the foods their child liked and disliked. Participants (N = 57) were separated into three separate groups based on an a priori study measuring food preferences and food neophobia: those who either had children with healthy food preferences (i.e. closely aligned with dietary guidelines) (N = 20), or unhealthy food preferences (i.e. not closely aligned with dietary guidelines) (N = 18), or high levels of food neophobia (N = 19). The parents used many, erse behaviours to influence their child's food preferences. Some of these behaviours were likely to be effective in promoting healthy food preferences in children (e.g. parental modelling, food exposure), whilst others were likely to be ineffective (e.g. forcing consumption, restricting food access). Parents of children with healthy food preferences appeared to use more of the feeding behaviours predicted to promote healthy preferences than parents in the other two groups. Parents of children with unhealthy food preferences and those of food neophobic children appeared to rely more on ineffective behaviours. Parents used a mixture of effective and ineffective behaviours, with parents of children with unhealthy food preferences or high food neophobia using fewer behaviours known to be effective. Interventions aimed at influencing parental feeding behaviours should include those behaviours targeted at children's food preferences.
Australian ten year olds' perceptions of food: I. Sex differences
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-1984
Awareness and compliance with the australian dietary guidelines: A descriptive study of Melbourne residents
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-1985
Understanding the older food consumer. Present day behaviours and future expectations
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2009
DOI: 10.1016/J.APPET.2008.09.007
Abstract: The main aim of this study was to determine whether Baby boomers know how they would manage to maintain a healthy diet on lower incomes in retirement. A cross-sectional survey was conducted at two shopping centres in Melbourne, Australia with 352 respondents. Contingency table analyses (using chi-square tests) were used to examine differences in present and future cooking habits between gender, age and socio-economic groups as well as anticipated changes to food shopping if they had less money in the future. The findings suggest that the most common food preparation behaviours were making meals from scratch ingredients (approximately 80% of participants) or using a combination of fresh and convenience foods (approximately 55% of participants), with socio-economic and demographic factors significantly influencing specific behaviours. Nearly 50% responded that if they had reduced income they would make a change to their food shopping habits. The most common changes were to the types of food purchased and seeking out special offers or cheaper brands. The results suggest that when faced with a lower standard of living, people will make changes to their food consumption habits. The challenge facing health promotion practitioners, is to ensure that these changes are well informed, leading to healthy options.
Personal values, marketing attitudes and nutrition trust are associated with patronage of convenience food outlets in the Asia-Pacific region: a cross-sectional study
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-02-2017
Australian adult consumers' beliefs about plant foods: a qualitative study
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2005
Abstract: This exploratory qualitative study examined consumers’ perceived barriers and benefits of plant food (fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, nuts, seeds) consumption and views on the promotion of these foods. Ten focus groups were conducted in Melbourne, Australia. Groups consisted of employees of various workplaces, community group members, university students, and inner-city residents. Health-related benefits predominated, particularly relating to the properties of plant foods (e.g., vitamins). Taste, variety, versatility, and environmental benefits were also considered important. The main barriers to eating plant foods were lack of knowledge and skills and length of preparation time. The poor quality of plant foods was also an issue for consumers. Awareness of the promotion of plant foods was generally high. Participants noted that promotions require a stronger practical emphasis with a focus on quick, easy-to-prepare foods and meals. These findings provide insight into effective ways to promote a higher consumption of plant foods.
Ten year olds' acquisition of body knowledge - the Body Owner's programme 1980, 1981
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-1983
Baby boomers' reasons for choosing specific food shops
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 11-10-2011
DOI: 10.1108/09590551111177972
Abstract: Baby boomers (people born between 1946 and 1964) are approaching retirement and there is concern about their preparation for their future health and wellbeing. Food shopping is likely to play a major role in their future lives. The purpose of this paper is to examine their reasons for choosing to buy food from particular shops and whether demographic characteristics and health status were associated with them. A questionnaire survey was conducted among a random s le of 1,037 people aged between 40 and 71 years in Victoria, Australia. Respondents were asked to indicate, from a list, their reasons for choosing to shop at particular food outlets. Regression analysis was used to examine the relationships between respondents' demographics and health status and their reasons for shopping at the food stores. Multivariate analysis showed that the reasons the respondents reported in choosing shops fell into four groups: saving, convenience, quality and healthy foods, and user‐friendly environment. Saving was negatively related to income, age, level of education and also linked with country of birth, religious affiliation, and marital status. Convenience was negatively associated with age and also related to health status and religious affiliation. Quality/healthy food products were positively related to age but negatively associated with body mass index, and also linked to country of birth. User‐friendly environment was negatively associated with income and education and related to gender and religious affiliation. The paper's results show that stores could provide more information, perhaps as signage, to their recycling and health information facilities, particularly in low socio‐economic status areas. Furthermore, the social status and religious associations confirm the view that shopping reflects broad societal affiliations among baby boomers. Shopping centres can be used to provide support for health and environmental sustainability promotions.
Dietary Supplement Use in a Randomly Selected Group of Elderly Australians
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-1989
DOI: 10.1111/J.1532-5415.1989.TB02229.X
Abstract: The prevalence of dietary supplementation and its relationship to health and dietary habits was investigated in a random mail survey of 2,195 people aged 65 years and over in Adelaide, South Australia. Subjects were selected from the electoral rolls in an urban area, and 77% returned completed survey instruments. Thirty-five percent of men and 46% of women reported taking some form of supplement at least once a week regularly throughout the year (these are defined as "regular" supplementers). The most popular supplements (in descending order of popularity for the total group) were: unprocessed bran, wheatgerm, vitamin C, and multivitamins or minerals. Thirteen percent of men and 15% of women reported the use of supplements on an occasional basis (once every few months or "now and then")--these are defined as "irregular" or "occasional" supplementers. Supplement users did not differ from non-supplementers in their use of medical facilities or in the number of bouts of minor illness they had experienced in the preceding year. Regular supplement users had more favorable dietary habits and higher intakes of several vitamins, minerals, trace elements and fiber than either non-supplementers or occasional supplementers.
Australian farmers' and food processors' values
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 02-2006
DOI: 10.1108/00070700610644924
Abstract: The aim of this exploratory study was to examine and compare a range of business values held by farmers and food processors. Questionnaires with a section on business values were posted to 200 farmers and 200 food processing businesses in Victoria, Australia, with response rates of 44 per cent ( n =69) and 31 per cent ( n =48), respectively, achieved. The most important of the 28 value items for farmers were high quality produce, honesty, and caring for employees. For processors, the most important values were quality products, customer value, and caring for employees. Between group differences reached statistical significance for one‐third of the items. In particular, processor businesses valued innovation and convenience products more highly and had a stronger process orientation than did farming businesses. Environmental sustainability, caring for the community, and providing healthy products were more integral to farming than processing businesses. The main limitation was the small s le sizes, although it is likely that response bias was not high. Future research could survey a larger s le of food industry representatives and examine the values held by other food industry sectors. This information could increase the effectiveness of communications with industry groups on a range of issues and in the formulation of appropriate health and environmental policies. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first study to compare the values of farmers and food processors. This information is particularly important for those in the food industry and health and environmental policy makers.
Factors influencing fruit and vegetable intake among urban Fijians: A qualitative study
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2016
DOI: 10.1016/J.APPET.2016.03.003
Abstract: Low fruit and vegetable intake is an important risk factor for micronutrient deficiencies and non-communicable diseases, but many people worldwide, including most Fijians, eat less than the World Health Organization recommended amount. The present qualitative study explores factors that influence fruit and vegetable intake among 57 urban Fijians (50 women, 7 men) of indigenous Fijian (iTaukei) and South Asian (Indian) descent. Eight focus group discussions were held in and around Suva, Fiji's capital and largest urban area, which explored motivation for eating fruit and vegetables, understandings of links to health and disease, availability and sources, determinants of product choice, and preferred ways of preparing and eating fruit and vegetables. Data were analysed using thematic content analysis. Regardless of ethnicity, participants indicated that they enjoyed and valued eating fruit and vegetables, were aware of the health benefits, and had confidence in their cooking skills. In both cultures, fruit and vegetables were essential components of traditional diets. However, increasing preferences for processed and imported foods, and inconsistent availability and affordability of high-quality, low-priced, fresh produce, were identified as important barriers. The findings indicate that efforts to improve fruit and vegetable intake in urban Fijians should target the stability of the domestic fruit and vegetable supply and access.
An examination of the mediating role of salt knowledge and beliefs on the relationship between socio-demographic factors and discretionary salt use: a cross-sectional study
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2013
Dietary electrolytes are related to mood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 11-2008
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114508959201
Abstract: Dietary therapies are routinely recommended to reduce disease risk however, there is concern they may adversely affect mood. We compared the effect on mood of a low-sodium, high-potassium diet (LNAHK) and a high-calcium diet (HC) with a moderate-sodium, high-potassium, high-calcium Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH)-type diet (OD). We also assessed the relationship between dietary electrolytes and cortisol, a stress hormone and marker of hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis activity. In a crossover design, subjects were randomized to two diets for 4 weeks, the OD and either LNAHK or HC, each preceded by a 2-week control diet (CD). Dietary compliance was assessed by 24 h urine collections. Mood was measured weekly by the Profile of Mood States (POMS). Saliva s les were collected to measure cortisol. The change in mood between the preceding CD and the test diet (LNAHK or HC) was compared with the change between the CD and OD. Of the thirty-eight women and fifty-six men (mean age 56·3 ( sem 9·8) years) that completed the OD, forty-three completed the LNAHK and forty-eight the HC. There was a greater improvement in depression, tension, vigour and the POMS global score for the LNAHK diet compared to OD ( P 0·05). Higher cortisol levels were weakly associated with greater vigour, lower fatigue, and higher levels of urinary potassium and magnesium ( r 0·1–0·2, P 0·05 for all). In conclusion, a LNAHK diet appeared to have a positive effect on overall mood.
Exploration of student nurses' stereotypes of patients
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1980
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Young Australian Adults’ Food Practices
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2022
DOI: 10.1093/CDN/NZAC009
Dietary Behaviours, Impulsivity and Food Involvement: Identification of Three Consumer Segments
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 18-09-2015
DOI: 10.3390/NU7095379
Thought for food: Investigations of cognitive aspects of food
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1980
Lay people's views of the school food supply
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 19-06-2007
DOI: 10.1108/00070700710753490
Abstract: This article aims to examine lay‐persons' views of school food services in Victoria, Australia. A cross‐sectional postal questionnaire survey of a random s le of electors on the Electoral Roll in Victoria, Australia. Out of 1,000 potential respondents, 377 completed the questionnaire. Main outcome measures included responses to closed questions about foods supplied to children at school using five‐point scales. Data analyses included frequency and cross‐tabulation analyses, and multivariate analyses of principal component scores by demographic and personal values variables. Many respondents were critical of children's school food services but they were generally supportive of food and health education, whilst holding ambivalent attitudes towards snacks and marketing practices. This was a cross‐sectional survey with a relatively low response rate. Understanding of laypersons' views of children's food services is likely to facilitate nutrition communication and promotion of healthy children's foods. Lay views of children's food provision have rarely been reported, despite their importance for the support of public nutrition policies. The study identifies likely antecedents of lay people's views.
Ticks, claims, tables and food groups: a comparison for nutrition labelling
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 1994
How young adults in Australia classify foods as healthy and unhealthy
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2022
DOI: 10.1016/J.APPET.2022.106060
Abstract: Young Australian adults exhibit poor food behaviour however, there is limited research as to why young adults choose to eat healthy or unhealthy foods. This study aimed to explore how young adults' (18-30 years) in Australia classify foods as healthy and unhealthy. Through a social-constructivist approach, 38 young adults (76% females and 21% males mean age = 24.1 years) were interviewed Australia-wide. Data were thematically analysed. Participants were classified into three groups based on their living arrangements namely, parental, shared and independent households. Four themes emerged, food preparation food groups nutrient composition and perceived impact. Food classification criteria based on nutrients were the most frequently used criterion to classify foods as unhealthy. A strong emphasis was placed on avoiding less healthy nutrients and there were limited discussions about beneficial nutrients. Participants belonging to the different household groups defined 'moderation' in several ways to justify their consumption of unhealthy foods. Reading food labels was a key criterion for evaluating healthiness amongst the participants of the parental and independent household groups, not among the shared household group. Findings reveal how living arrangements influenced young adults' perceptions of healthiness. Future public health policy could incorporate the language of young adults identified in this study in the transfer of nutritional knowledge to young adults.
Food skills confidence and household gatekeepers’ dietary practices
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2017
DOI: 10.1016/J.APPET.2016.09.033
Abstract: Household food gatekeepers have the potential to influence the food attitudes and behaviours of family members, as they are mainly responsible for food-related tasks in the home. The aim of this study was to determine the role of gatekeepers' confidence in food-related skills and nutrition knowledge on food practices in the home. An online survey was completed by 1059 Australian dietary gatekeepers selected from the Global Market Insite (GMI) research database. Participants responded to questions about food acquisition and preparation behaviours, the home eating environment, perceptions and attitudes towards food, and demographics. Two-step cluster analysis was used to identify groups based on confidence regarding food skills and nutrition knowledge. Chi-square tests and one-way ANOVAs were used to compare the groups on the dependent variables. Three groups were identified: low confidence, moderate confidence and high confidence. Gatekeepers in the highest confidence group were significantly more likely to report lower body mass index (BMI), and indicate higher importance of fresh food products, vegetable prominence in meals, product information use, meal planning, perceived behavioural control and overall diet satisfaction. Gatekeepers in the lowest confidence group were significantly more likely to indicate more perceived barriers to healthy eating, report more time constraints and more impulse purchasing practices, and higher convenience ingredient use. Other smaller associations were also found. Household food gatekeepers with high food skills confidence were more likely to engage in several healthy food practices, while those with low food skills confidence were more likely to engage in unhealthy food practices. Food education strategies aimed at building food-skills and nutrition knowledge will enable current and future gatekeepers to make healthier food decisions for themselves and for their families.
Development and validation of a salt knowledge questionnaire
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 18-03-2014
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980013000517
Abstract: Initiatives promoting the reduction of high-salt food consumption by consumers need to be partly based on current levels of salt knowledge in the population. However, to date there is no validated salt knowledge questionnaire that could be used to assess population knowledge about dietary salt (i.e. salt knowledge). Therefore, the aim of the present study was to develop and validate a salt knowledge questionnaire. A cross-sectional study was conducted on an online web survey platform using convenience, snowball s ling. The survey questionnaire was evaluated for content and face validity before being administered to the respondents. Online survey. A total of forty-one nutrition experts, thirty-two nutrition students and thirty-six lay people participated in the study. Item analyses were performed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the test items. Twenty-five items were retained to form the final set of questions. The total scores of the experts were higher than those of the students and lay people ( P 0·05). The total salt knowledge score showed significant correlations with use of salt at the table ( ρ = −0·197, P 0·05) and inspection of the salt content in food products when shopping ( ρ = 0·400 P 0·01). The questionnaire demonstrated sufficient evidence of construct validity and internal consistencies between the items. It is likely to be a useful tool for the evaluation and measurement of levels of salt knowledge in the general population.
Who complies with the australian dietary guidelines?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1986
Breakfast size is related to body mass index for men, but not women
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2010
DOI: 10.1016/J.NUTRES.2010.03.006
Abstract: The objective of this study was to examine the effect of self-reported breakfast size, daily eating, and other health habits on body mass index (BMI). We hypothesized that a consumption of a substantial breakfast compared with skipping or small breakfasts would be associated with lower BMI. Three independent, cross-sectional, screening surveys were conducted by Sydney Adventist Hospital in 1976, 1986, and 2005 in the surrounding community. The archived survey forms of 384 men and 338 women in 1976, 244 men and 229 women in 1986, and 270 men and 62 women in 2005 were randomly selected. Body mass index was determined from height and weight measured by hospital staff. The reported amount consumed at breakfast was one of several eating habits that predicted BMI for men but not women. It explained 5% to 6% of the variance in male BMI in all 3 years examined. As the reported breakfast amount increased, men's BMI decreased. Lifestyle confounders including vegetarianism and physical activity did not affect this relationship. However, the consumption of breakfast was significantly positively associated with consumption of cereals, bread, fruit, and spreads, while coffee consumption was significantly associated with smaller breakfasts or breakfast skipping. The consumption of relatively large breakfasts may influence BMI in men, and its promotion may help reduce the prevalence of obesity in Australia and elsewhere.
Public views of the benefits and barriers to the consumption of a plant-based diet
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-2006
Abstract: The aim of this study was to examine consumers' perceived benefits and barriers to the consumption of a plant-based diet. Mail survey that included questions on perceived benefits and barriers to the consumption of a plant-based diet. Victoria, Australia. Four hundred and fifteen randomly selected Victorian adults. The main perceived barrier to adoption of a plant-based diet was a lack of information about plant-based diets (42% agreement). Sex, age and education differences were present in over a quarter of the barrier items. For ex le, non-university-educated respondents and older people were less willing to change their current eating pattern than were university educated and younger respondents. The main benefits associated with plant-based diets were health benefits, particularly decreased saturated fat intake (79% agreement), increased fibre intake (76%), and disease prevention (70%). Age, sex and education differences with regard to benefits were apparent, although sex differences were more important than age or education differences. The majority of respondents perceived there to be health benefits associated with the consumption of a plant-based diet. Compared with the proportion of respondents who agreed that there were particular benefits of eating a plant-based diet, perceived barriers were relatively low. An understanding of the perceived benefits and barriers of consuming a plant-based diet will help formulate strategies that aim to influence beliefs about plant foods, plant food consumption, and, ultimately, public health.
Enough time for lunch? The duration and governance of lunch eating times in Australian primary schools: A mixed-methods study
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2022
DOI: 10.1016/J.APPET.2021.105817
Abstract: Developing healthy eating behaviours is important to assist children in maintaining good health and decrease the risk of chronic health conditions. Recent nutrition promotion efforts in Australian primary schools have mainly focused on canteen guideline compliance and obesity prevention interventions. The aim of this study was to investigate the primary school food environment, specifically, allocated lunch eating duration and the governance of children's lunch breaks. Parents (n = 402) and teachers (n = 123) were asked via an online survey, about school allocated lunch eating duration and its adequacy. Respondents were asked about the supervision, monitoring and feedback of children's lunches, as well as how they felt about these practices. Parents (n = 308) and teachers (n = 102) also responded to the open-ended question "What could be done to improve the school food environment at your school?". Ten minutes was the allocated lunch eating duration reported by most parents and teachers and 58% of those parents and 30% of those teachers rated this as inadequate. Increasing the allocated lunch eating duration was frequently cited as a way to improve the school food environment. A similar proportion of parents and teachers agreed with teachers monitoring food intake, not providing feedback on food brought to school, and that parents should decide what children eat. More parents (44%) than teachers (23%) believed that teachers should eat their own lunch with the children. These findings provide an insight into the primary school lunch environment and the views of two key stakeholder groups. School food policies should consider these findings in future revisions, particularly with regards to eating times.
New Zealanders' attitudes to milk: implications for public health
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 02-2003
DOI: 10.1079/PHN2002353
Abstract: To identify consumer attitudes and beliefs about (liquid) milk that may be barriers to consumption. Two random-quota telephone surveys conducted in Auckland one year apart. Respondents were questioned about their usual milk intake and their attitudes to milk. The questionnaire included attitude items that reflected the main themes of consumer interest in milk. New Zealand. Seven hundred and thirteen respondents in the baseline survey and a separate s le of 719 respondents in the follow-up survey. At least one-third of the respondents consumed less than a glass (250ml) of milk a day. Non-consumption was highest in young women (15%). People's concerns about milk related to what was important in their lives what threatens them physically and emotionally. Women held more positive attitudes but they were concerned about the fat content of milk. Men were less aware of milk's nutritional benefits and as a result were less appreciative of its value. There is an opportunity to develop public health initiatives to address the barriers to drinking milk. Industry–health alliances may be an effective means to provide positive nutrition messages about milk and to engage the support of health professionals.
Diet, food beliefs and dietary supplementation
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-1987
What should you eat? A survey of South Australian women's food consumption norms
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-1991
DOI: 10.1016/0195-6663(91)90061-V
Abstract: In a random population survey, 418 South Australian women rated the desirability of consumption of 48 common foods, according to their perceived health relevance. Multidimensional scaling of the women's responses yielded three dimensions which accounted for 87% of total variance. The first two dimensions were related to healthiness (low fat, salt and sugar contents) and traditional-artificial nutrient-reduced foods respectively. Younger women rated healthy foods more highly. The mean ratings also formed a unidimensional scale which had high internal reliability (Cronbach's alpha = 0.80). These unidimensional scores were correlated with reported food intakes of a random s le of respondents in the State of Victoria, using mean values for demographic subgroups (r = 0.50). The results suggest that food intake, or alternatively recalls of food intake, may be influenced by such prescriptive norms.
Associations of Maternal Vitamin D Deficiency with Pregnancy and Neonatal Complications in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 18-05-2018
DOI: 10.3390/NU10050640
Demographic and psychographic associations of consumer intentions to purchase healthier food products
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2015
Similar but different. Health behaviour pathways differ between men and women
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2012
DOI: 10.1016/J.APPET.2012.01.008
Abstract: The purpose of the study was to examine middle to older aged Australians' healthy eating, eating out, and physical activity behaviours and to investigate their relationships with likely antecedents such as demographics, personal values, health background, and attention to weight and health habits. A mail survey was conducted among a random s le of men and women aged between 38 and 79 years 1105 usable questionnaires were obtained. Structural equation modelling was used to examine relationships between the variables. The results showed that there were distinct relationships between predictive variables and behavioural and BMI outcomes for men and women. For ex le, healthy eating, eating out behaviours were positively associated with body weight for women but not men while attention to weight and health habits was positively related to hedonism values for women but not for men. The interrelationships among the predictors and the outcome variables appear to be more complex for women than men. The implications of the findings for nutrition communication are discussed.
Advice from primary-care physicians and nurses may improve diet in people with hypertension
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2003
Adolescent television viewing and unhealthy snack food consumption: the mediating role of home availability of unhealthy snack foods
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 30-11-2012
The food choice conference
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-1993
THE VICTORIAN NUTRITION SURVEY: A PROFILE OF THE ENERGY, MACRONUTRIENT AND SODIUM INTAKES OF THE POPULATION
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-02-2010
DOI: 10.1111/J.1753-6405.1988.TB00571.X
Abstract: Osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee causes significant morbidity and current medical treatment is limited to symptom relief, while therapies able to slow structural damage remain elusive. This study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate (CS), alone or in combination, as well as celecoxib and placebo on progressive loss of joint space width (JSW) in patients with knee OA. A 24-month, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, conducted at 9 sites in the United States as part of the Glucosamine/Chondroitin Arthritis Intervention Trial (GAIT), enrolled 572 patients with knee OA who satisfied radiographic criteria (Kellgren/Lawrence [K/L] grade 2 or grade 3 changes and JSW of at least 2 mm at baseline). Patients with primarily lateral compartment narrowing at any time point were excluded. Patients who had been randomized to 1 of the 5 groups in the GAIT continued to receive glucosamine 500 mg 3 times daily, CS 400 mg 3 times daily, the combination of glucosamine and CS, celecoxib 200 mg daily, or placebo over 24 months. The minimum medial tibiofemoral JSW was measured at baseline, 12 months, and 24 months. The primary outcome measure was the mean change in JSW from baseline. The mean JSW loss at 2 years in knees with OA in the placebo group, adjusted for design and clinical factors, was 0.166 mm. No statistically significant difference in mean JSW loss was observed in any treatment group compared with the placebo group. Treatment effects on K/L grade 2 knees, but not on K/L grade 3 knees, showed a trend toward improvement relative to the placebo group. The power of the study was diminished by the limited s le size, variance of JSW measurement, and a smaller than expected loss in JSW. At 2 years, no treatment achieved a predefined threshold of clinically important difference in JSW loss as compared with placebo. However, knees with K/L grade 2 radiographic OA appeared to have the greatest potential for modification by these treatments.
How Often Do We Use Cooking Utensils? An Exploratory Study
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-06-2014
Investigation of population heterogeneity of diet use among middle-aged Australians
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 12-2010
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114510004745
Abstract: The purpose of the study was to determine patterns of diet use among middle-aged Australian men and women and the relationships between these different usage patterns and demographic characteristics, health status and health habits. A cross-sectional mail survey was conducted among a random s le of 2975 people aged 40–71 years in Victoria, Australia. A total of 1031 usable questionnaires were obtained which included information about the use of diets (e.g. low-fat and low-salt) during the past 3 months along with demographic information, health status and health habits. Based on the responses about the use of thirteen diets for both sexes, latent class analysis was employed to identify the optimal number of use of diets and the assignment of participants to particular groups. Three types of diet uses were identified and provisionally named: diet use, selected diet use and non-diet use. This classification was associated with demographics, health status and health habits, and these associations differed between men and women. The findings suggest that nutrition education programmes should be tailored to the different needs of the diet use groups.
The effects of an apparent breach of therapeutic regulations on consumers: the Pan Pharmaceuticals recall
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2008
Associations Between Parental Concern for Adolescent Weight and the Home Food Environment and Dietary Intake
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2010
DOI: 10.1016/J.JNEB.2008.11.004
Abstract: Examine associations between parental concern about adolescent weight and adolescent perceptions of their dietary intake, home food availability, family mealtime environment, and parents' feeding practices. Cross-sectional study. Adolescents, aged 12-15 years from 37 secondary schools in Victoria, Australia, and their parents completed surveys in 2004-2005. 1,448 adolescent-parent pairs. Parental concern about adolescent weight adolescent perceptions of their food intake and home food environment. Chi-square tests, exploratory factor analysis, independent t tests (P < .01). Although 12% of parents perceived their adolescent as overweight, 27% were concerned about their adolescent's weight (under- or overweight). Adolescents of concerned parents reported lower intakes of energy-dense snacks and less home availability of these food items, and they perceived that their parents less often listened to and considered their food preferences when shopping and cooking, than did adolescents of unconcerned parents. Concerned parents were no more likely to provide fruits and vegetables in the home or a positive family mealtime environment than unconcerned parents, at least as reported by their adolescents. Parental concern about adolescent weight was associated with lower intakes of energy-dense snacks among adolescents, less home availability of these food items, and less supportive parental feeding practices. Parents should be encouraged to listen to and consider their adolescents' food preferences, and provide supportive family mealtime environments and healthful food in the home.
Effects of varying recall periods on reported food intakes
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-1991
DOI: 10.1016/0195-6663(91)90113-7
Abstract: A 32-item food frequency questionnaire was administered with different time periods over which intake frequencies were to be recalled. In replicate Studies 1 and 2, 154 students were randomly allocated to six recall periods, ranging from the "the past 3 days" through to "the past year" and "usual intake". Perceived "oftenness" of intake was estimated on seven-point ratings. In Study 3, 78 students were randomly allocated to five short recall periods, e.g. last weekend, the past 5 days. In addition to rating "oftenness", they estimated their frequencies of intake numerically. In the first two studies, recall period was related to "oftenness" ratings in three ways. Responses for some foods (mainly snacks) were unaffected by recall period others (mainly staples) were monotonically related to the requested duration of the recall and, for a third set of foods, periods greater than one month (including "usual intake") yielded equivalent ratings but these were greater frequencies than those associated with shorter recall periods. In Study 3, marked differences were seen between frequency ratings over "average" durations and those over recent periods of similar duration. Correlations between numerical frequency estimates and "oftenness" ratings were high. The implications of the results for uses of food frequency methodology in nutritional epidemiology are discussed.
Perceptions of nutrition transition problems: a qualitative study of Vietnamese health and education professionals
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-11-2016
Dietary supplementation, naturalistic values and attitudes to the food supply among Australian women
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-1992
Social ideological influences on reported food consumption and BMI
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2008
The First Body Owner's Programme: An integrated school-based physical and nutrition education programme
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 1987
What is the role of theory in health behavior change interventions?
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2004
The Effects on Sexual Response and Mood after Sterilization of Women Taking Long-Term Oral Contraception: Results of a Double-Blind Cross-Over Study
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-1978
DOI: 10.1111/J.1479-828X.1978.TB00048.X
Abstract: Twenty women using oral contraception for a minimum of 2 years with no side effects volunteered to take part in this experiment which commenced after they had undergone laparoscopic sterilization. In a double-blind cross-over design, patients were administered either 1.0 mg ethynodiol diacetate + 0.1 mg mestranol ("Ovulen") each day for 21 days or an identical-looking placebo for the same number of days. The following month the alternative (cross-over) tablet was given. On days 12 and 25 of each cycle the women completed a modified form of Pitt's Depression Index and a short Sexual Response Score. The result indicated that the active pill ("Ovulen") was associated with a decreased sexual response, but with no increase in the depression index (relative to placebo). The significance of these findings is discussed in relation to previous work, the methodology of the study and hormone-behaviour experiments.
Radio Occultation Observations of the Solar Corona Over 1.60–1.86 R⊙: Faraday Rotation and Frequency Shift Analysis
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 10-2019
DOI: 10.1029/2019JA026937
A Population-based Study of Preschoolers' Food Neophobia and Its Associations with Food Preferences
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2008
DOI: 10.1016/J.JNEB.2007.03.007
Abstract: This cross-sectional study was designed to investigate the relationships between food preferences, food neophobia, and children's characteristics among a population-based s le of preschoolers. A parent-report questionnaire. Child-care centers, kindergartens, playgroups, day nurseries, and swimming centers. 371 two- to five-year-old Australian children. Associations between food neophobia and the food preferences and characteristics. Analysis of variance, analysis of covariance, Pearson product-moment correlations, and Fisher z test were used to estimate and compare the associations between these variables. Food neophobia was associated with reduced preferences for all food groups, but especially for vegetables (r = -0.60 P < .001). It was also associated with liking fewer food types (r = -0.55 P < .001), disliking more food types (r = 0.42 P < .001), the number of untried food types (r = 0.25 P < .001), a less varied range of food preferences (r = -0.59 P < .001), and less healthful food preferences overall (r = -0.55 P < .001). No significant relationships (P < .01) were observed between food neophobia and a child's age, sex, or history of breast-feeding. The study confirms and extends results obtained in experimental research and population-based intake studies of food neophobia to children's everyday food preferences. The findings suggest that preschool children's everyday food preferences are strongly associated with food neophobia but not with children's age, sex, or history of breast-feeding. When aiming to influence children's food preferences, the effects of food neophobia and strategies to reduce it should be considered.
Reducing sedentary behaviour and increasing physical activity among 10-year-old children: overview and process evaluation of the 'Switch-Play' intervention
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 03-2005
Abstract: Overweight and obesity has doubled among children in Australia. There is an urgent need to develop primary prevention strategies to prevent current and future unhealthy weight gain. The aims of this paper are to describe a randomized controlled trial ('Switch-Play') developed to prevent unhealthy weight gain among 10-year-old children and to report the findings of the process evaluation. Children from three government primary schools were randomized by class to one of four conditions: a behavioural modification group (BM n = 69) a fundamental motor skills group (FMS n = 73) a combined BM and FMS group (n = 90) or a control (usual classroom lessons) group (n = 61). Children in the BM group participated in 19 sessions that encouraged them to reduce screen-based behaviours, and identified physical activity alternatives. The FMS group participated in 19 lessons that focused on mastery of six skills: run, throw, dodge, strike, vertical jump and kick. The combined group participated in all the BM and FMS activities. The intervention specialist teacher reported that the children showed high enjoyment and engagement (88% lessons attended) in most aspects of the programme. At-home tasks were completed by 57-62% of the children, and 92% completed the in-class tasks. Two-thirds of the children in the BM group participated in the behavioural contracting to switch off the TV. Most of the children reported high enjoyment of the programmes, and only a small proportion (7-17%) reported difficulties in switching off their nominated TV shows. More than half the children reported reducing their TV viewing however, less than half reported increasing their physical activity. It was found that most aspects of the intervention arms of the programme were successfully delivered to the majority of children participating in 'Switch-Play' that the programmes were delivered as intended and that the programmes were favourably evaluated by participating children and their parents.
Welcome to the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (IJBNPA)!
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2004
What should we do about fruit and vegetables? Pulling fruit and vegetables back from extinction in the marketplace
Publisher: International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS)
Date: 11-2016
A multi‐dimensional scaling exploration of ten year olds’ food combination rules
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1984
Impact of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami on Japan’s horticultural industry
Publisher: International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS)
Date: 11-2016
Does the prescriptive lifestyle of Seventh-day Adventists provide ‘immunity’ from the secular effects of changes in BMI?
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 06-05-2008
Dietary approaches for weight loss with increased intakes of fruit, vegetables and dairy products
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-05-2008
Baby boomers’ food shopping habits. Relationships with demographics and personal values
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2010
DOI: 10.1016/J.APPET.2010.08.008
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine baby boomers' food shopping behaviours and to investigate their relationships with demographics and personal values. A questionnaire concerning food shopping behaviours, personal values and demographics was mailed to a random s le of 2975 people aged 40-70 years in Victoria, Australia. Usable questionnaires of 1031 were obtained. Structural equation modelling was employed for data analyses. The analyses revealed that demographics and personal values influenced shopping behaviours via different pathways among male and female baby boomers. For ex le, self-direction positively impacted on shopping planning for men but negatively influenced price minimization for women. Among women only, age was positively related to shopping planning and negatively to price minimization. Thus, both personal values and demographics influenced baby boomers' shopping behaviours. Since values are more likely to be amenable to change than demographics, segmentation of the population via value orientations would facilitate targeted interventions to promote healthy food shopping.
Does personality affect dietary intake?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2014
DOI: 10.1016/J.NUT.2013.08.012
Abstract: The purpose of this review is to evaluate the evidence for an association between the Big Five dimensions of personality, dietary intake, and compliance to dietary recommendations. Poor diet is a known risk factor for overweight and obesity and associated chronic lifestyle diseases and it has been proposed that personality may be linked to dietary choices. Findings from cross-sectional surveys from different countries and cultures show a positive association between Openness and consumption of fruits and vegetables and between Conscientiousness and healthy eating. Although no evidence has been found that personality dimensions are associated with adherence to dietary recommendations over time, Conscientiousness is associated with a number of prosocial and health-promoting behaviors that include avoiding alcohol-related harm, binge-drinking, and smoking, and adherence to medication regimens. With emerging evidence of an association between higher Conscientiousness and lower obesity risk, the hypothesis that higher Conscientiousness may predict adoption of healthy dietary and other lifestyle recommendations appears to be supported.
Dietary supplementers’ dietary descriptions, lifestyles and personal values
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-1988
Who uses herbs and spices?
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 08-07-2014
Abstract: – This paper aims to examine the usage patterns of herbs and spices among Australians and to identify how herbs and spices were consumed by respondents from different social backgrounds. – In all, 1,023 adult Australians completed an online survey and ranked the frequencies of use of 21 herbs and spices and provided details of their demographics, cooking intentions and household types. – Latent class analysis was applied and three types of usage patterns were identified, including high use, moderate use and low use of herbs and spices. The usage patterns were associated differentially with several covariates. For ex le, the chance of being in the high-usage group was positively associated with age, number of adults living in the household and cooking evening meals from scratch, but negatively related to levels of education and possession of cooking or culinary qualifications. Moreover, respondents who cooked their evening meals from scratch and who were not interested in receiving information or advice about making inexpensive but tasty meals were more likely to be in the moderate- rather than the low-usage group. – The identification of groups of users of herbs and spices would enable health communications to be tailored to enhance the use of herbs and spices and reduce the use of other flavouring agent including fat, sugar and salt.
Expert Perspectives on Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2011
DOI: 10.4278/AJHP.090615-QUAL-189
Abstract: To examine food system experts' explanations for the consistently low level of fruit and vegetable consumption in Australia and what can be done to increase it. A qualitative survey of food system experts. The survey was administered online to experts across Australia between August and November 2008 using SurveyMonkey.com . Key informants (N = 332) in sectors ranging from farming through food waste disposal 122 usable responses were analyzed. Opinions about fruit and vegetable consumption were collected through open-ended questions. Respondent background information was also collected. Identification of key themes via qualitative analysis. Many reasons for inadequate consumption were suggested, most of which related to inadequacies in the supply of fruit and vegetables. However, the most commonly cited solutions focused on increasing consumer demand. The incongruence between reasons for inadequate consumption and proposed solutions presents a challenge and suggests a need to shift policy priorities towards improving the supply of fruit and vegetables. Several well-coordinated approaches between the various sectors are needed to maximize outcomes. They include some outside the scope of traditional health promotion efforts.
Socio-Psychological Factors Associated with Young Australian Adults’ Consumption of Energy Dense and Nutrient Poor (EDNP) Foods
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 15-02-2022
DOI: 10.3390/NU14040812
Abstract: Young Australian adults’ exhibit high consumption of Energy Dense and Nutrient Poor (EDNP) foods however, there is limited research concerning the factors influencing their consumption. This study aimed to explore socio-psychological factors associated with young Australian adults’ (18–30 years) consumption of EDNP foods with consideration of the Food Related Lifestyle Model (FRLM) as a potential framework. Through qualitative descriptive research methodology, 38 young adults were interviewed. Data were thematically analyzed. Participants were classified into three groups based on their living arrangements namely, parental, shared and independent households. Five themes emerged, (1) psychological factors (2) intrinsic qualities of EDNP foods, (3) social factors, (4) accessibility and affordability and (5) health related beliefs. The FRLM takes into consideration some of the factors reported in this study as influencers of EDNP food intakes. However, the FRLM omits important psychological factors (motivation, restraint, cravings, coping strategies and habits) identified by participants as influencers over their EDNP food intakes. The FRLM may need to be extended in its application to EDNP food intakes of young Australian adults. Social marketing c aigns highlighting health risks, addressing social and environmental factors are suggested. The social desirability of healthier alternatives in social gatherings of young adults could be increased.
A prospective study of the effects of the progestagen content of oral contraceptives on measures of affect, automatization, and perceptual restructuring ability
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-1980
DOI: 10.1007/BF00431271
Abstract: Hyperglycemia is the major characteristic of diabetes mellitus, and a chronically high glucose (HG) level causes β-cell glucolipotoxicity, which is characterized by lipid accumulation, impaired β-cell function, and apoptosis. TXNIP (Thioredoxin-interacting protein) is a key mediator of diabetic β-cell apoptosis and dysfunction in diabetes, and thus, its regulation represents a therapeutic target. Recent studies have reported that p90RSK is implicated in the pathogenesis of diabetic cardiomyopathy and nephropathy. In this study, we used FMK (a p90RSK inhibitor) to determine whether inhibition of p90RSK protects β-cells from chronic HG-induced TXNIP expression and to investigate the molecular mechanisms underlying the effect of FMK on its expression. In INS-1 pancreatic β-cells, HG-induced β-cell dysfunction, apoptosis, and ROS generation were significantly diminished by FMK. In contrast BI-D1870 (another p90RSK inhibitor) did not attenuate HG-induced TXNIP promoter activity or TXNIP expression. In addition, HG-induced nuclear translocation of ChREBP and its transcriptional target molecules were found to be regulated by FMK. These results demonstrate that HG-induced pancreatic β-cell dysfunction resulting in HG conditions is associated with TXNIP expression, and that FMK is responsible for HG-stimulated TXNIP gene expression by inactivating the regulation of ChREBP in pancreatic β-cells. Taken together, these findings suggest FMK may protect against HG-induced β-cell dysfunction and TXNIP expression by ChREBP regulation in pancreatic β-cells, and that FMK is a potential therapeutic reagent for the drug development of diabetes and its complications.
Australians' organic food beliefs, demographics and values
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 12-2005
DOI: 10.1108/00070700510629797
Abstract: To examine consumers' beliefs about organic foods and their relationship with socio‐demographics and self‐transcendence (universal, benevolence) personal values. A random questionnaire‐based mail survey of 500 Australian (Victorian) adults (58 per cent response) was used. The questionnaire included items on organic food beliefs, the importance of self‐transcendence values as guiding principles in life, and socio‐demographics. Statistical analyses included cross‐tabulations of organic food beliefs by socio‐demographics and multiple regression analyses of positive organic food beliefs with personal value and socio‐demographic items as the independent variables. The majority of participants believed organic food to be healthier, tastier and better for the environment than conventional food. However, expense and lack of availability were strong barriers to the purchasing of organic foods. Generally, women were more positive about organic food than men (e.g. women were more likely to agree that organic food has more vitamins/minerals than conventional food). The personal value factor related to nature, environment and equality was the dominant predictor of positive organic food beliefs, followed by sex. These predictors accounted for 11 per cent of the variance. A survey response bias needs to be taken into account. However, the response rate was adequate for reporting and differences in age and education between participants and the Victorian population were taken into account in data presentation. Future understanding of consumers' use of organic foods will require the inclusion of a fairly extensive set of potential influences. Communication appeals based on psychographics may be a more effective way to alter consumers' beliefs about organic foods than those based on demographic segmentation. To the best of one's knowledge, this is the first study to examine the relationship between personal values, socio‐demographics and organic food beliefs in a random population s le. This study is relevant to producers, processors and retailers of organic food and those involved with food and agricultural policy.
Oral contraceptives and emotional state
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1978
Women's views of women's roles: a survey of South Australian women
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-1990
Mothers’ Perceptions of Toddler Beverages
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 19-03-2018
DOI: 10.3390/NU10030374
Abstract: Background: The prevalence of obesity among Australian pre-school children is a major concern with links to poor health outcomes. One contributing factor is excess energy intake. Sugar-sweetened beverages are energy-dense, nutrient-poor, readily available and have been implicated in the increasing prevalence of obesity. Furthermore, preschooler beverage consumption may develop into dietary habits that track into adulthood. There is little research on factors influencing parents’ decision-making when serving beverages to their preschoolers, or on mothers’ perceptions of preschooler’s beverages. The aim of this study was to explore mothers’ perceptions of commonly consumed preschooler beverages. Methods: The Repertory Grid Technique and the Laddering Technique methodologies were utilized in interviews with 28 mothers from Melbourne, Australia, to explore beverage perceptions. Results: A large number of erse perceptual categories (‘constructs’) (n = 22) about beverages were elicited, demonstrating the complexity of mothers’ perceptions when making beverage choices for their preschoolers. The five most common categories were related to health, sugar, dairy, packaging, and additives. Thematic analysis of responses from the laddering method identified three major themes: concerns about the types of beverages mothers would like to provide their preschoolers, the healthiness of a beverage, and the sugar content. Conclusions: Mothers’ perceptions of beverages are sophisticated and need to be included in the design of health communication strategies by health promoters and government agencies to influence mothers’ beverage selections for their preschoolers.
Consumers' readiness to eat a plant-based diet
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-11-2006
Abstract: The aim of this study was to examine consumers' readiness to change to a plant-based diet. Mail survey that included questions on readiness to change, eating habits and perceived benefits and barriers to the consumption of a plant-based diet. Victoria, Australia. A total of 415 randomly selected adults. In terms of their readiness to eat a plant-based diet, the majority (58%) of participants were in the precontemplation stage of change, while 14% were in contemplation reparation, and 28% in action/maintenance. Those in the action/maintenance stage ate more fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds, whole-meal bread, and cooked cereals than those in earlier stages. There were statistically significant differences in age and vegetarian status between the stages of change, but not for other demographic variables. There were strong differences across the stages of change with regard to perceived benefits and barriers to plant-based diets. For ex le, those in action/maintenance scored highest for benefit factors associated with well-being, weight, health, convenience and finances, whereas those in the precontemplation stage did not recognise such benefits. These findings can be utilised to help provide appropriate nutrition education and advertising, targeted at specific stages of change. For ex le, education about how it is possible to obtain iron and protein from a plant-based diet and on the benefits of change, in addition to tips on how to make a gradual, easy transition to a plant-based diet, could help progress precontemplators to later stages. Australian Research Council.
Towards a children’s food and nutrition policy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 16-09-2010
Spacecraft Radio Frequency Fluctuations in the Solar Corona: A MESSENGER–HELIOS Composite Study
Publisher: American Astronomical Society
Date: 31-01-2019
Understanding meal patterns: definitions, methodology and impact on nutrient intake and diet quality
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 19-03-2015
DOI: 10.1017/S0954422414000262
Abstract: Traditionally, nutrition research has focused on in idual nutrients, and more recently dietary patterns. However, there has been relatively little focus on dietary intake at the level of a ‘meal’. The purpose of the present paper was to review the literature on adults' meal patterns, including how meal patterns have previously been defined and their associations with nutrient intakes and diet quality. For this narrative literature review, a comprehensive search of electronic databases was undertaken to identify studies in adults aged ≥ 19 years that have investigated meal patterns and their association with nutrient intakes and/or diet quality. To date, different approaches have been used to define meals with little investigation of how these definitions influence the characterisation of meal patterns. This review identified thirty-four and fourteen studies that have examined associations between adults' meals patterns, nutrient intakes and diet quality, respectively. Most studies defined meals using a participant-identified approach, but varied in the additional criteria used to determine in idual meals, snacks and/or eating occasions. Studies also varied in the types of meal patterns, nutrients and diet quality indicators examined. The most consistent finding was an inverse association between skipping breakfast and diet quality. No consistent association was found for other meal patterns, and little research has examined how meal timing is associated with diet quality. In conclusion, an understanding of the influence of different meal definitions on the characterisation of meal patterns will facilitate the interpretation of the existing literature, and may provide guidance on the most appropriate definitions to use.
Teenage vegetarianism: Beauty or the beast?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-1997
Testosterone, early experience and behavioral arousal in a novel environment
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-1974
DOI: 10.1016/0018-506X(74)90015-4
Abstract: Trihalomethanes (THMs) and haloacetic acids (HAAs) are regulated disinfection by-products (DBPs) their joint reproductive toxicity in drinking water is unknown. We aimed to evaluate a drinking water mixture of the four regulated THMs and five regulated HAAs in a multigenerational reproductive toxicity bioassay. Sprague-Dawley rats were exposed (parental, F1, and F2 generations) from gestation day 0 of the parental generation to postnatal day (PND) 6 of the F2 generation to a realistically proportioned mixture of THMs and HAAs at 0, 500×, 1,000×, or 2,000× of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's maximum contaminant levels (MCLs). Maternal water consumption was reduced at ≥ 1,000× body weights were reduced at 2,000×. Prenatal and postnatal survival were unaffected. F1 pup weights were unaffected at birth but reduced at 2,000× on PND6 and at ≥ 1,000× on PND21. Postweaning F1 body weights were reduced at 2,000×, and water consumption was reduced at ≥ 500×. Males at 2,000× had a small but significantly increased incidence of retained nipples and compromised sperm motility. Onset of puberty was delayed at 1,000× and 2,000×. F1 estrous cycles and fertility were unaffected, and F2 litters showed no effects on pup weight or survival. Histologically, P0 (parental) dams had nephropathy and adrenal cortical pathology at 2,000×. A mixture of regulated DBPs at up to 2,000× the MCLs had no adverse effects on fertility, pregnancy maintenance, prenatal survival, postnatal survival, or birth weights. Delayed puberty at ≥ 1,000× may have been secondary to reduced water consumption. Male nipple retention and compromised sperm motility at 2,000× may have been secondary to reduced body weights.
A review of methods and tools to assess the implementation of government policies to create healthy food environments for preventing obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-2016
How to improve the impact of nutrition guidance by general physicians: Public health versus individual patient?
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-1999
Abstract: This paper will review the impacts that family physicians might exert over their patients' health, wellbeing and nutrition status. It commences with the examination of some of the characteristics of public health and family medicine as well as those of the societies in which family medicine is practised. This leads on to a discussion of several food, nutrition and consumer-related agendas which set the context for the work of family physicians. These agendas delineate the scope of family physicians' nutritional guidance. They suggest that current nutrition goals are one subset of a wider range of possibilities. Finally, several courses of action are proposed which may improve family physicians' impact on patients' lives.
Consumer concerns about food and health: Examination of general and specific relationships with personal values and demographics
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 24-10-2008
DOI: 10.1108/00070700810918018
Abstract: Aims to investigate the relationships between consumers' food concerns and their personal values and demographic characteristics. A questionnaire was administered in a cross sectional random population survey conducted among a s le of 1,000 adults in South Australia. The questionnaire elicited information about respondents' concerns about 20 food and health issues, the perceived importance of 23 values items derived from the Schwartz values inventory, and their demographic characteristics. Principal components analyses derived four food concerns factors and six personal values factors. Respondents' safety concerns scores were positively associated with devout‐tradition, order‐discipline, and moderate‐independent values. Their disease concerns score was positively linked to beauty‐nature, devout‐tradition, and order‐discipline. Multiple regression and chi‐square automatic interaction detection (CHAID) analyses showed that in idual values items were strong predictors of consumers specific concerns such as food and heart disease, and, genetic modification of foods. The research was based on a cross sectional study. More refined indices of food concerns and personal values should be used in replications of this preliminary study. The findings support the use of psychographic market segmentation approaches in communication programs about food and health issues. The findings suggest that personal values, may be stronger predictors of consumers' concerns about food and health issues than demographics. They also show that measurement level of values and concerns influence the observed strength of their relationships.
Correlates of meal skipping in young adults: a systematic review
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-2016
The relationship between education and food consumption in the 1995 Australian National Nutrition Survey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 08-2004
DOI: 10.1079/PHN2003577
Abstract: To assess the relationship between education and the intake of a variety of in idual foods, as well as groups of foods, for Australian men and women in different age groups. Cross-sectional national survey of free-living men and women. A s le of 2501 men and 2739 women aged 18 years and over who completed the National Nutrition Survey (NNS) 1995. Information about the frequency of consumption of 88 food items was obtained using a food-frequency questionnaire in a nation-wide nutrition survey. Irregular and regular consumers of foods were identified according to whether they consumed in idual foods less than or more than once per month. The relationship between single foods and an index of education (no post-school qualifications, vocational, university) was analysed via contingency table chi-square statistics for men and women. Food group variety scores were derived by assigning in idual foods to conventional food group taxonomies, and then summing the dichotomised intake scores for in idual foods within each food group. Two-way analyses of variance (education by age groups) were performed on food variety scores for men and women, separately. While university-educated men and women consumed many in idual foods more regularly than less-educated people, they were less likely to be regular consumers of several meat products. The relationship between education and food consumption was less apparent when in idual food scores were aggregated into food group scores. University-educated men and women exhibited higher scores on total food group variety than the other educational groups. Higher education is associated with the regular consumption of a wider variety of foods. Aggregation of in idual food consumption indices into food variety scores may mask the apparent effects of educational background on food consumption.
Improving perceptions of healthy food affordability: Results from a pilot intervention
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2014
Advice from primary care physicians and nurses may improve diet in people with hypertension
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2003
A Factor Analytic Study of the Twelve Item General Health Questionnaire
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-1977
DOI: 10.3109/00048677709159577
Abstract: A total of 152 fresh consecutive yeast isolates were tested for their ability to produce germ tubes by the API GT system (Analytab products, Plainview, N.Y.) and by a conventional method. The API system was found to be less sensitive than the conventional method. The costs per test by the API system and the conventional method were $0.76 and $0.39, respectively.
Healthy eating norms and food consumption
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-03-2014
DOI: 10.1038/EJCN.2014.2
Abstract: Beliefs about what people think they ought to eat to be healthy ('healthy eating norms (HENs)') may be important influences on food consumption. The purpose of this study was to examine the predictive roles of normative expectations and demographics, personal values, substance use behaviours and body weight on reported food consumption among middle-aged Australians. A questionnaire was administered by mail to a random s le of people aged 40 years and above, drawn from the Electoral Rolls in Victoria, Australia. Part of the questionnaire contained questions about the respondents' beliefs about what should they eat to be healthy, what actually they ate, their personal values, smoking and alcohol use, as well as self-reported heights and weights and demographic characteristics. Respondents' reported food consumption did not match their HENs. Demographics, smoking, body mass index (BMI) and personal values, and HENs were associated with reported consumption but the relationships differed among men and women. Generally, high energy-dense, nutrition-poor (EDNP) food consumption was negatively associated with age. Fruit and vegetable HEN and consumption was positively linked to universalist values but negatively related to smoking status among men. In contrast in women, fruit and vegetable HENs were positively related to income and education while EDNP HEN was negatively associated with age and income but positively linked to body weight and power values. Reported food consumption was associated with HEN, personal values, demographics, smoking and BMI through different pathways among men and women. The implications for nutrition promotion are discussed.
Snacking behaviours of adolescents and their association with skipping meals
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 17-09-2007
Abstract: Snacking is likely to play an important role in the development of overweight and obesity, yet little is known about the contexts of snacking in adolescents or how snacking may influence other dietary habits, like meal skipping. This study examines the contexts in which adolescents snack and whether these contexts are associated with demographic characteristics of adolescents and with meal skipping. A cross-sectional, self-reported online food habits survey was administered to 3,250 secondary students in years seven and nine. The students were drawn from 37 secondary schools in Victoria, Australia during 2004–2005. Frequencies of meal skipping, and snacking in eight contexts, were compared across gender, year level and region of residence. Logistic regressions were performed to examine associations between snacking contexts and meal skipping adjusting for gender and region. The most common contexts for snacking among adolescents were after school (4.6 times per week), while watching TV (3.5 times per week) and while hanging out with friends (2.4 times per week). Adolescents were least likely to snack all day long (0.8 times per week) or in the middle of the night (0.4 times per week). Snacking contexts were variously associated with gender, year level and region. In contrast, meal skipping was associated with gender and region of residence but not year level. Adolescents who reported more frequent snacking on the run, on the way to or from school, all day long, or in the middle of the night were more likely to skip meals. These data suggest adolescents snack frequently, especially in their leisure time. In addition, adolescents who snack on the run, on the way to or from school, all day long or in the middle of the night are more likely to skip meals than are adolescents who don't snack at these times. Understanding the contexts in which adolescents snack, and their associations with skipping meals, may assist those involved in the promotion of healthy food habits among adolescents.
Who cooks from scratch and how do they prepare food?
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 02-02-2015
Abstract: – There is increasing interest in the domestic preparation of food and with the postulated health benefits of “cooking from scratch”. The purpose of this paper is to examine the demographic and food preparation associations of this term in order to examine its operational value. – A national online survey was conducted during 2012 in Australia among 1,023 domestic food providers, half of whom were men. Questions were asked about cooking from scratch, demographic characteristics, food preparation practices and interest in learning about cooking. – Three quarters of the s le reported they often or always “cooked from scratch” (CFS). More women than men always CFS fewer 18-29 year olds did so often or always but more of the over 50s always did so fewer single people CFS than cohabiting people. No statistically significant ethnic, educational background or household income differences were found. High levels of cooking from scratch were associated with interest in learning more about cooking, greater use of most cooking techniques (except microwaves), meat and legume preparation techniques, and the use of broader ranges of herbs, spice, liquids/ sauces, other ingredients and cooking utensils. – In future work a numerical description of the frequency of cooking from scratch should be considered along with a wider range of response options. The data were derived from an online panel from which men were overs led. Caution is required in comparisons between men and women respondents. The cross-sectional nature of the s le prevents any causal attributions from being drawn from the observed relationships. Further replication of the findings, especially the lack of association with educational background should be conducted. – This is the first study to examine the associations of demographic characteristics and cooking practices with cooking from scratch. The findings suggest that cooking from scratch is common among Australian family food providers and signifies interest in learning about cooking and involvement in a wide range of cooking techniques.
Enhancing the dietary management of general practice patients through collaborative care: perspectives of general practitioners and dietitians
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-05-2009
Reply to Dr. Andrew and Dr. Archer
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-1977
Associations between appetitive traits and food preferences in preschool children
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2016
An exploration of the relationships between food lifestyle and vegetable consumption
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 07-2004
DOI: 10.1108/00070700410545728
Abstract: A short questionnaire was completed by 276 South Australian consumers, which examined postulated relationships between personal values, food lifestyle, demographics and their usual consumption of 24 vegetables. Principal components analyses showed that consumers' vegetable consumption could be ided into several categories, most notably salad and boiled vegetables. In multiple regression analyses different sets of values and lifestyle factors predicted intakes of overall vegetable (Rsq=27 per cent), salad (16 per cent) and boiled (27 per cent) vegetables. Path analysis revealed a complex set of pathways leading from values and personal demographics through motives, perceived food attributes and cooking skills to consumption. These partly confirmed the food lifestyle model proposed by Grunert et al. The findings show that vegetable consumption has a number of contextual and cognitive antecedents but strongly suggest that other likely predictive variables require investigation.
Australian adults’ knowledge of Australian agriculture
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 05-01-2015
Abstract: – Agriculture is a major generator of wealth and employment in Australia. However, it faces a range of economic and environmental challenges which require substantial community support. The purpose of this paper is to examine Australian adults’ Australian knowledge of, and attitudes towards, Australian agriculture. – Online questionnaire survey of 1,026 adults conducted nationwide during August 2012. – Most respondents had little knowledge of even the basic aspects of the industry but they approved of farmers’ performance of their roles. Latent class analysis showed that there are two groups of consumers with low and lower levels of knowledge. The respondents’ age, rural residence and universalist values were positive predictors of agricultural knowledge. – This was a cross-sectional, quota-based survey which examined only some aspects of agriculture. However, the findings suggest that more communication with the general public about the industry is required in order to build on the positive sentiment that exists within the community. – More education about agriculture in schools and higher education is indicated. – The poor state of knowledge of agriculture threatens the social contract upon which agricultural communities depend for survival. – The study highlights the poor state of general knowledge about agriculture in Australia. The findings could be used as a baseline against which the efficacy of future education programmes could be assessed.
Characterizing eating patterns: a comparison of eating occasion definitions
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2015
Abstract: To date, many approaches have been used to define eating occasions (EOs). A standard definition for EOs is required to facilitate further research. In this study, we examined the influence of differing definitions of EOs on the characterization of eating patterns. Cross-sectional dietary data from two 24-h recalls collected during the 2011-12 Australian National Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey (n = 5242 adults, aged ≥19 y) were analyzed. Eight definitions were applied: participant-identified, time-of-day, and 6 neutral definitions (in idual EOs separated by different time intervals and/or an additional energy criterion of 210 kJ). Frequency of and total energy intake from meals, snacks, and all EOs were estimated, as appropriate. Differences were tested by using F tests, stratified by sex and age group. Agreement between different definitions of meal and snack frequencies was assessed by using intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs). For each definition, linear regression was used to estimate the proportion of variance in total energy intake (kJ) and amount of food intake (g) predicted by frequency of EOs and meals and snacks. Among both sexes and across all age groups, mean frequencies of meals differed between the participant-identified and time-of-day definitions (mean difference range = 0.1-0.3 P < 0.001). There were statistically significant differences between mean frequencies of EOs across the 6 neutral definitions (P < 0.001). There was good agreement for snacks (men: ICC = 0.89 women: ICC = 0.87) but not meal frequencies (men: ICC = 0.38 women: ICC = 0.36) between the participant-identified and time-of-day definitions. The neutral definition (15-min time interval plus energy criterion) best predicted variance in total energy intake (R(2) range = 19.3-27.8). Different approaches to the definition of EOs affect how eating patterns are characterized, with the neutral definition best predicting variance in total energy intake. Further research that examines how different EO definitions affect associations with health outcomes is needed to develop consensus on a standard EO definition.
Public perceptions of the causes and prevention of obesity among primary school children
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-11-2003
The behavioural and demographic contexts of white bread consumption
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 11-2003
DOI: 10.1108/00070700310506245
Abstract: The aim of this study was to examine the demographic, health habits and personal values associations of white bread use. A total of 474 randomly selected consumers completed a questionnaire about bread consumption, health habits and personal values. The findings showed that compared with non‐consumers white bread users were younger, less educated, more likely to have children and to be smokers. They were less likely to follow vegetarian, low fat or special diets or use alternative therapies. Non‐consumers were more likely to hold pro‐nature universalistic values. This suggests that the use of this staple food is associated with demographic, behavioural and ideological domains. Their causal inter‐relationships require further investigation.
The associations of vegetable consumption with food mavenism, personal values, food knowledge and demographic factors
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2016
DOI: 10.1016/J.APPET.2015.11.005
Abstract: Poor dietary choices, in particular low consumption of fruits and vegetables are associated with the prevalence of diet related diseases. Ways to increase consumption are urgently required. This paper examines the associations of demographic, psychographic and food knowledge variables with reported vegetable consumption. An online questionnaire was administered in late 2012 to a national s le 2146 Australians who were selected to represent the Australian population in terms of age, sex, education and location of residence. It was ided into sections which assessed food knowledge, food involvement, food mavenism, personal values and personality factors, demographic characteristics and reported consumption of 13 vegetables and the total number of servings of vegetables per day. Principal components analyses of the in idual vegetable consumption ratings derived three forms of vegetable consumption scores. These and total serving per day were used as dependent variables in a structural equation model to identify pathways between them and their likely antecedents. Three types of vegetable consumption were formed:Salad vegetables (onion, tomato and lettuce) Dinner vegetables (carrot, peas and beans) and'Green' vegetables (cabbage, spinach broccoli and cauliflower). Food mavenism, food knowledge, food involvement and equality-universalist values mediated the relationships between demographics and conscientiousness and the vegetable consumption variables. The three types of vegetable consumption and total servings per day were associated with different antecedent pathways. The mediating roles of food mavenism, food knowledge, food involvement and equality-universalist values may present opportunities for health promotion and the horticultural industry to increase population vegetable intake. Further research is required to test these associations via experimental and longitudinal studies and qualitative investigation of the meaning and place of the three forms of vegetable consumption in people's daily lives is recommended.
Social ideological influences on food consumption, physical activity and BMI
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2009
DOI: 10.1016/J.APPET.2009.07.004
Abstract: We investigated relationships between ideological beliefs (i.e., diaphanous body image and environmental concerns), food attitudes, evening meal patterns, physical activity, and Body Mass Index (BMI). A behavioural model was hypothesized based on the Theory of Reasoned Action. A survey was conducted among shoppers aged 40-70 years at Eastland Shopping Centre, Melbourne, Australia. The hypothesized model was tested among female baby boomers (n=547) for younger (n=245) and older (n=302) age groups using structural equation modeling. Findings showed that diaphanous body image had a direct and positive influence on negative food attitudes, which is likely to lead to higher BMI for both age groups. Body image beliefs were positively related to physical activity only for women aged 56-70 years. In contrast, among women aged 40-55 years, strong pro-environmental concerns suggested less consumption of both healthy (e.g., fruit and vegetables) and unhealthy (e.g., sugar and fats) foods. Moreover, strong pro-animal concerns resulted in higher BMI for the younger women. As expected, increased physical activity negatively influenced BMI. Importantly, the associations between ideological beliefs, attitudes, evening meal patterns, and BMI differed between younger and older female baby boomers.
Consumption of foods by young children with diagnosed campylobacter infection – a pilot case–control study
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 02-2004
DOI: 10.1079/PHN2003521
Abstract: To determine whether parentally reported habitual intake of specific foods differed between children with diagnosed C ylobacter jejuni infection and children of a comparison group without diagnosed infection. Information was collected from the parents or primary caregivers of South Australian children aged 1–5 years with diagnosed C. jejuni (cases, n =172) and an age- and gender-matched group of uninfected children (controls, n =173). Frequency of consumption of 106 food and drink items was determined for the preceding two months by food-frequency questionnaire. Four children in the control group had recorded diarrhoeal episodes during the assessment period and were excluded, so 169 responses were evaluated for this group. Information was gathered on possible confounders including socio-economic status. Response frequencies were classified into three levels of consumption (rarely, weekly or daily) and statistical comparison was made by frequency of consumption of foods versus the ‘rarely’ classification for cases and controls, respectively. Frequency of consumption of most foods, including starchy foods and fruits and vegetables, did not differ between cases and controls. However, reported consumption of eight food items (block and processed cheese (slices and spread), salami/fritz (a form of processed sausage), chicken nuggets, pasteurised milk, fish (canned or fresh) and hot French fries) was significantly higher by controls. The hypothesis that reported consumption of starchy foods was lower by cases than by controls was not supported by the data. However, consumption of some processed and unprocessed foods was higher by controls. Some of these foods have established bactericidal actions in vitro that may indicate a possible mechanism for this apparent protection.
Perceived reliability of sources of health information
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 1989
DOI: 10.1093/HER/4.3.367
Students' Perceptions of Favourite and Disliked Foods
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1981
DOI: 10.3109/09637488109143310
Abstract: Secondary students and tertiary dietetics and health education students rated their Favourite and Most Disliked foods on 35 seven-point rating scales. The resulting data were subjected to a series of factor analyses which indicated little difference between the students' conceptions of their Favourite and Most Disliked foods. The main factors were named: "Fattening-poor aspects', "Healthy aspects', "Appeal', "Simplicity-convenience', "Hardness-crunchiness'. Discriminant analyses of the factor scores indicated significant differences in the ways students of different ages, and from different ethnic and educational backgrounds, construed the foods. The results are discussed in relation to adolescent development, and a social motivation model of food choice is proposed.
Best strategies to improve school-leavers′ knowledge of nutrition and food systems: Views from experts in Iran
Publisher: Medknow
Date: 2016
ERA and nutrition
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-05-2011
Screening for Psychological Disturbance amongst Gynaecology Patients
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-1977
Food concerns and support for environmental food policies and purchasing
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2015
DOI: 10.1016/J.APPET.2015.02.040
Abstract: Consumer support for pro environmental food policies and food purchasing are important for the adoption of successful environmental policies. This paper examines consumers' views of food policy options as their predisposition to purchase pro environmental foods along with their likely demographic, educational and cognitive antecedents including food and environmental concerns and universalism values (relating to care for others and the environment). An online survey to assess these constructs was conducted among 2204 Australian adults in November 2011. The findings showed strong levels of support for both environmental food policies (50%-78% support) and pro environmental food purchasing (51%-69% intending to purchase pro environmental foods). Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling showed that different cognitive mediators exist along pathways between demographics and the two outcome variables. Support for food policy was positively related to food and environment concerns (std. Beta = 0.25), universalism (0.41), perceived control (0.07), and regulatory issues (0.64 but negatively with food security issues (-0.37). Environment purchasing intentions were positively linked to food and nutrition concerns (0.13), food and environment concerns (0.24), food safety concerns (0.19), food and animal welfare concerns (0.16), universalism (0.25), female gender (0.05), education (0.04), and perceived influence over the food system (0.17). In addition, health study in years 11 and 12 was positively related to the beginning of both of these pathways (0.07 for each). The results are discussed in relation to the opportunities that communications based on the mediating variables offer for the promotion of environmental food policies and purchasing.
Consumers' personal values and sources of nutrition information
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2003
The association of mavenism and pleasure with food involvement in older adults
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2014
Classification of main meal patterns – a latent class approach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 19-11-2012
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114512004539
Abstract: Relatively little examination of the meals that are prepared in households has been conducted, despite their well-defined properties and widespread community interest in their preparation. The purpose of the present study was to identify the patterns of main meal preparation among Australian adult household meal preparers aged 44 years and younger and 45 years and over, and the relationships between these patterns and likely socio-demographic and psychological predictors. An online cross-sectional survey was conducted by Meat and Livestock Australia among a representative s le of people aged 18–65 years in Australia in 2011. A total of 1076 usable questionnaires were obtained, which included categorical information about the main meal dishes that participants had prepared during the previous 6 months along with demographic information, the presence or absence of children at home, confidence in seasonal food knowledge and personal values. Latent class analysis was applied and four types of usage patterns of thirty-three popular dishes were identified for both age groups, namely, high variety, moderate variety, high protein but low beef and low variety. The meal patterns were associated differentially with the covariates between the age groups. For ex le, younger women were more likely to prepare a high or moderate variety of meals than younger men, while younger people who had higher levels of education were more likely to prepare high-protein but low-beef meals. Moreover, young respondents with higher BMI were less likely to prepare meals with high protein but low beef content. Among the older age group, married people were more likely to prepare a high or moderate variety of meals than people without partners. Older people who held strong universalist values were more likely to prepare a wide variety of meals with high protein but low beef content. For both age groups, people who had children living at home and those with better seasonal food knowledge were more likely to prepare a high variety of dishes. The identification of classes of meal users would enable health communication to be tailored to improve meal patterns. Moreover, the concept of meals may be useful for health promotion, because people may find it easier to change their consumption of meals rather than in idual foods.
Australian consumers' food-related environmental beliefs and behaviours
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2008
DOI: 10.1016/J.APPET.2005.07.012
Abstract: The aim of this study was to examine Australians' food-related environmental beliefs and behaviours. Questionnaires were posted to 500 randomly selected adults, with 223 questionnaires completed (58% response rate). Decreased use of packaging by food manufacturers was viewed as being the most important item to help the environment, while lower meat consumption was seen as least likely to help. Composting food scraps and purchase or consumption of locally produced foods were the most commonly performed food-related environmental behaviours, while use of organic products was the least commonly performed. Moderate consistency (rs=0.54) was found between reported beliefs and behaviours. Older people were more likely to perform certain food-related environmental behaviours, such as composting. Awareness of the impact on the environment of meat production, organic compared to conventional farming, and food packaging was low even among those who were found to already believe that food-related actions are important to help the environment, suggesting widespread consciousness raising is needed.
Consumers' interest in learning about cooking: the influence of age, gender and education
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 31-03-2014
DOI: 10.1111/IJCS.12089
Understanding Meal Choices in Young Adults and Interactions with Demographics, Diet Quality, and Health Behaviors: A Discrete Choice Experiment
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2021
DOI: 10.1093/JN/NXAB106
Abstract: Our understanding of meal choices is limited by methodologies that do not account for the complexity of food choice behaviors. Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) rank choices in a decision-making context. This study aimed to rank the relative importance of influences on meal choices in young adults and examine interactions by subgroups. Adults (18-30 y) living in Australia were recruited via social media to complete an Internet-based DCE and survey. Participants were presented with 12 choice sets about a typical weekday meal, consisting of 5 attributes (taste, preparation time, nutrition content, cost, and quality). Diet quality (Dietary Guideline Index) was calculated from brief dietary questions. Conditional logit models ranked meal attributes, including interactions by sex, education, area-level disadvantage, diet quality, and weight status. In total, 577 adults (46% female, mean ± SD age 23.8 ± 3.8 y) completed the DCE and survey. Nutrition content was the most important influence on meal choice (B: 1.48 95% CI: 1.31, 1.64), followed by cost (B: -0.75 95% CI: -0.87, -0.63), quality (B: 0.58 95% CI: 0.49, 0.67), taste (B: 0.55 95% CI: 0.45, 0.65), and preparation time (B: -0.42 95% CI: -0.52, -0.31). Females, those with higher diet quality, and those with a BMI (in kg/m2) <25 had higher preferences for better nutrition content. Females had higher preferences for better taste and lower preferences for higher-cost meals. Participants with higher education had higher preferences for better nutrition content. Participants living in higher area-level disadvantage areas had higher preferences for longer preparation time. Nutrition content was the most important influence on young adults' meal choices. Preferences differed by sex, socioeconomic position, diet quality, and weight status. Findings show the suitability of DCEs for understanding food choice behaviors in young adults and support the need for meal-based interventions to be tailored according to demographic and health characteristics.
Prescription medication hoarding and borrowing or sharing behaviours in older residents in the Illawarra, New South Wales, Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-2010
DOI: 10.1111/J.1741-6612.2010.00457.X
Abstract: To examine prescription medication hoarding and borrowing or sharing (PMHBS) behaviours in older people, particularly which medications are subject to these behaviours and the circumstances that enable these behaviours. A mixed methods triangulation design, using consecutive qualitative (focus groups) and quantitative (survey) methodologies in a convenience s le of people older than 65 years, living independently in the Illawarra region (New South Wales). Focus group participants (n = 28) acknowledged PMHBS behaviours were widespread however, very few survey respondents (n = 226) admitted to engaging in these behaviours. Main findings in the study were enablers for these behaviours: the prescription medication is considered the same as that prescribed previously and self-medicating for pain relief. The prevalence of PMHBS behaviours in this study was low, although it was acknowledged such behaviours occurred in the wider community. Sharing strong pain medication and the same prescription medication appeared to be acceptable in this population.
What influences urban Indian secondary school students' food consumption? - A qualitative study.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2016
DOI: 10.1016/J.APPET.2016.07.018
Abstract: Indian adolescents' over reliance on foods such as nutrient-poor snacks, sugar-sweetened beverages and take-away foods puts them at significant risk of obesity and several diet-related chronic diseases. Therefore, the factors that influence their dietary behaviours need to be better understood in order to develop effective nutrition promotion strategies. The purpose of this qualitative inquiry was to investigate adolescents', parents', teachers', and school principals' perceptions of the main influences on adolescent eating behaviours. Fifteen adolescents aged 14-15 years, 15 parents, 12 teachers and 10 principals from 10 private English-speaking schools in Kolkata, India, participated in semi-structured interviews. The digitally-recorded conversations were transcribed verbatim and analysed thematically. The 52 interviews revealed a number of factors that may influence adolescents' eating habits including parent and peer influences, home and school food environments, and the mass media. Emerging evidence suggests that future health and nutrition promotion interventions need to target the different influences on Indian teenagers' food consumption.
Thai Yoga improves physical function and well-being in older adults: A randomised controlled trial
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2017
DOI: 10.1016/J.JSAMS.2016.10.007
Abstract: Compare two 12-week low-intensity exercise regimens on components of physical function and quality of life in community-dwelling healthy yet sedentary adults aged over 60. This study used a randomised, multi-arm, controlled trial design. Thirty-nine sedentary participants (29 women), aged 67.7±6.7 years were randomly allocated to either a 12-week Thai Yoga (TY) or Tai Chi (TC) for 90min twice per week, or telephone counselling Control (C). A Senior Fitness Test (chair-stand, arm-curl, sit-&-reach, back-scratch, 8-foot up-&-go and 6-min walk) and Short-Form 36 Health Survey, Centre for Epidemiological Studies of Depression, Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly and the Physical Activity Enjoyment Scale were assessed at baseline, six, 12 weeks, and three months after the completion of the regimen. After 12 weeks, chair-stand (mean difference, 2.69 95% CI, 0.97-4.41 P<0.001), arm-curl (2.23 95% CI, 0.06-4.52 P=0.009), sit-&-reach (1.25 95% CI, 0.03-2.53 P=0.013), back-scratch (2.00 95% CI, 0.44-3.56 P=0.005), 8-foot up-&-go (-0.43 95% CI, -0.85 to 0.01 P=0.013), 6-min walk (57.5 95% CI, 20.93-94.07 P<0.001), vitality (13.27 95% CI, 2.88-23.66 P=0.050) and enjoyment (7.96 95% CI, 3.70-12.23 P=0.001) significantly improved in TY compared to C, however no change was observed in TC compared to C. TY improved in chair-stand (2.31 95% CI, 0.59-4.03 P=0.007), sit-&-reach (1.38 95% CI, 0.10-2.66 P=0.007), 6-min walk (32.31 95% CI, -4.26-68.88 P=0.015), vitality (12.88 95% CI, 2.50-23.27 P=0.040) and enjoyment (5.65 95% CI, 1.39-9.92 P=0.010) compared to TC after 12 weeks. The findings suggest that older adults can make significant improvements in their health and well-being by engaging in low intensity Thai Yoga exercise.
Environmental attitudes of senior secondary school students in South Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-1998
Parents' food choice motives and their associations with children's food preferences
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 02-06-2015
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980014001128
Abstract: The objective was to investigate parents’ motives for selecting foods for their children and the associations between these motives and children’s food preferences. Cross-sectional survey. A modified version of the Food Choice Questionnaire was used to assess parents’ food choice motives. Parents also reported children’s liking/disliking of 176 food and beverage items on 5-point Likert scales. Patterns of food choice motives were examined with exploratory principal component analysis. Associations between motives and children’s food preferences were assessed with linear regression while one-way and two-way ANOVA were used to test for sociodemographic differences. Two Australian cities. Parents ( n 371) of 2–5-year-old children. Health, nutrition and taste were key motivators for parents, whereas price, political concerns and advertising were among the motives considered least important. The more parents’ food choice for their children was driven by what their children wanted, the less children liked vegetables ( β =−0·27, P ·01), fruit ( β =−0·19, P ·01) and cereals ( β =−0·28, P ·01) and the higher the number of untried foods ( r =0·17, P ·01). The reverse was found for parents’ focus on natural/ethical motives (vegetables β =0·17, P ·01 fruit β =0·17, P ·01 cereals β =0·14, P =0·01). Health and nutrition motives bordered on statistical significance as predictors of children’s fruit and vegetable preferences. Although parents appear well intentioned in their motives for selecting children’s foods, there are gaps to be addressed in the nature of such motives (e.g. selecting foods in line with the child’s desires) or the translation of health motives into healthy food choices.
Current Levels of Salt Knowledge: A Review of the Literature
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 12-2014
DOI: 10.3390/NU6125534
Dietitians’ Interests in Primary Food Production: Opportunities for Greater Involvement in the Promotion of Environmental Sustainability
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2014
Australian consumers' views of fruit and vegetable policy options
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 04-01-2011
Abstract: An Internet survey was conducted among 511 respondents in Victoria, Australia, to ascertain their support for possible government fruit and vegetable promotion policies. The findings suggest that there is a strong and widespread support for policies which encourage country of origin labelling, local and increased production, subsidies, bans and taxes, and communication c aigns. The respondents' Universalism values (e.g. valuing nature, harmony and beauty) were more pervasive predictors of their opinions than their demographic characteristics. The findings suggest that many Australians hold different views to the prevailing neoliberal views of the political establishment.
Food and activity in out of school hours care in Victoria
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2006
Consumers' sensory and nutritional perceptions of three types of milk
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 04-2003
DOI: 10.1079/PHN2002417
Abstract: To identify consumer perceptions of whole milk, reduced-fat milk and soy milk, and to investigate demographic influences on perceptions and types of milk consumption. Questionnaires covering nutritional and sensory perceptions of three types of milk. Three hundred and sixty-one randomly selected shoppers in Melbourne, Australia. Generally, respondents held positive perceptions about milk. Milk was considered as having good sensory properties, providing a good source of nutrients, and being a convenient and safe product. However, despite these findings, misperceptions and unawareness about the nutrient content of milk were prevalent. Negative perceptions were most common for whole milk and were mostly related to its perceived high fat, cholesterol and energy contents. Soy milk received lower ratings on sensory quality and convenience than dairy milk. There were few sociodemographic differences in consumers' perceptions. Although reduced-fat milk consumption was more frequent among elderly people and type of milk consumption was related to parenthood, no other significant effects of demographic variables were found on the consumption of specific milk types. Although positive perceptions were common, negative perceptions and misperceptions appear to be prevalent, presenting a challenge for nutrition education. Sociodemographic factors were not shown to be important predictors of perceptions and type of milk consumption.
Teenage vegetarianism: Prevalence, social and cognitive contexts
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-1998
Abstract: The aim of this study was to measure the prevalence of teenage vegetarianism and associated food habits and beliefs. Two thousand senior secondary school students (mean age 16 years), from 52 schools in South Australia, participated in a two part survey. The findings show that teenage vegetarianism is primarily a female phenomenon, ranging in prevalence, according to definition, from 8 to 37% of women and 1 to 12% of men. Support for vegetarian practices was high especially from mothers (63%) and classmates (46%). Generally, "teenage vegetarians" consumed fewer red meats than non-vegetarians but ate more chicken. They cited health, animal welfare and environmental reasons in support of their habits. The importance of operational definitions of vegetarianism is emphasized and the findings are discussed in relation to likely motivational influences.
The Heterogeneity of Middle-Age Australians' Retirement Plans
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 03-2014
DOI: 10.1093/SWR/SVU005
The obesogenic household: Factors influencing dietary gatekeeper satisfaction with family diet
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-04-2015
DOI: 10.1002/MAR.20799
Farmers' and consumers' beliefs about community-supported agriculture in Australia: A qualitative study
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2006
Attitudes to food and nutrition policy from five different sectors in Australia
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 1994
Baby boomers' desires for future health and food services
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 13-09-2011
DOI: 10.1108/00346651111170950
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to identify food and health services desired by baby boomers and to examine their likely antecedents. A random s le of baby boomers in Victoria, Australia ( n =1,108) completed a postal survey and rated the desirability of 13 post retirement food and health services. The strongest demand was expressed for low cost fruit and vegetables, 24‐hour GP services, environmentally friendly foods, and friendly places to meet friends and exercise, among others. Generally, psychographic variables were key predictors of demand for social (health) services, food services, and vitamin pills and herbal remedies. Demand for food services was associated with universalism values. The cross‐sectional design prevents causal attributions however, the findings suggest that baby boomers' demand for services falls into three groups, which are related to their psychographic characteristics. Consideration of these desired services may facilitate the planning of future health and food services for this broad age group.
Responses of Australian patients with gynaecological disorders to the General Health Questionnaire: a factor analytic study
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 02-1978
DOI: 10.1017/S003329170000670X
Abstract: One hundred and twenty-seven out-patients attending a gynaecology clinic completed the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ, 60-item version) and a role problems checklist (RPCL). Principal factors analysis of the GHQ yielded 8 factors which were named: poor performance (which accounted for 63·3 % of total variance), depression-anxiety, sleep-disturbance, anhedonia-anergia, loss of confidence, general illness, social dysfunction and headache. These results were compared with previous principal components analyses of the GHQ (Goldberg, 1972 Goldberg et al. 1976). A multiple regression analysis indicated that age and 7 of the 8 factors were significantly related to the number of role problems reported by the patients. However, it appears that psychiatric distress (as measured by the GHQ) and role problems were only related to a small degree (multiple R 2 = 12·69% only).
Influence of dietary modifications on the blood pressure response to antihypertensive medication
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 09-2010
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114510003223
Abstract: Identifying dietary modifications that potentiate the blood pressure (BP)-lowering effects of antihypertensive medications and that are practical for free-living people may assist in achieving BP reduction goals. We assessed whether two dietary patterns were effective in lowering BP in persons on antihypertensive therapy and in those not on therapy. Ninety-four participants (38/56 females/males), aged 55·6 ( sd 9·9) years, consumed two 4-week dietary regimens in random order (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH)-type diet and low-Na high-K (LNAHK) diet) with a control diet before each phase. Seated home BP was measured daily for the last 2 weeks in each phase. Participants were grouped based on antihypertensive drug therapy. The LNAHK diet produced a greater fall in systolic BP (SBP) in those on antihypertensive therapy ( − 6·2 ( sd 6·0) mmHg) than in those not on antihypertensive therapy ( − 2·8 ( sd 4·0) mmHg) ( P = 0·036), and this was greatest for those on renin–angiotensin system (RAS) blocker therapy ( − 9·5 ( sd 6·4) mmHg) (interaction P = 0·007). The fall in SBP on the DASH-type diet, in those on therapy (overall − 1·1 ( sd 6·2) mmHg renin–angiotensin blocker therapy − 4·2 ( sd 4·7) mmHg), was not as marked as that observed on the LNAHK diet. Dietary modifications are an important part of all hypertension management regimens, and a low-Na and high-K diet enhances the BP-lowering effect of antihypertensive medications, particularly those targeting the RAS.
The nutrition information needs of New Zealand general practitioners
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-1990
Food Store Choice Among Urban Slum Women Is Associated With Consumption of Energy-Dense Food
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 20-05-2016
Abstract: The aim of this study was to examine the associations of food store choice with food consumption among urban slum women. A cross-sectional survey was carried out among 188 urban slum women (19-50 years old) in Jakarta, Indonesia. A semiquantitative food frequency questionnaire was used to assess food consumption. Associations between food consumption and food store choice were tested by linear regression. This study found that frequencies of buying food from small shops ( warung), street food vendors, and modern food stores were significantly associated with consumption of snacks, mixed dishes, and fruit respectively. In addition, buying food from traditional markets and small cafes ( warung makan) was not significantly associated with particular types of food consumption. As modern food stores are rarely utilized by these women, small shops ( warung) and street food vendors are likely to be important channels to improve slum dwellers’ diet.
Contribution of Australian cardiologists, general practitioners and dietitians to adult cardiac patients' dietary behavioural change
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-05-2009
Barriers to Nutrition Promotion in Private Secondary Schools in Kolkata, India: Perspectives of Parents and Teachers
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 06-2018
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