Consumer Attitudes and Understanding of Low Sodium Claims on Food: An Analysis of Healthy and Hypertensive Individuals
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 987
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Response to survey questions measuring attitudes towards sodium claims using 5 point likert rating scales
研究概览
简要总结
Sodium-related claims on food labels should help people find lower sodium food choices; however consumer attitudes and understanding of such claims are unknown.
The objective of this study was to evaluate: 1) the attitudes and understanding to different types of permitted sodium claims and 2) the effect of hypertension on responses to such claims.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Ecologic Or Community
- 时间视角
- Cross Sectional
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 20 Years 至 69 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Primary grocery shoppers
- •Canadian adults between the ages 20 to 69 years
排除标准
- •Did not have an email address or have access to internet
结局指标
主要结局
Response to survey questions measuring attitudes towards sodium claims using 5 point likert rating scales
时间窗: On average the survey took 25 minutes to complete
Within an online survey, participants were exposed to 4 mock soup packages that differed only by the claim it carried. After being exposed to each mock package, participants were asked to rate their perceived attractiveness, healthiness, credibility, usefulness of the tested sodium claims using 5 point likert scales. Participants were also asked to rate their purchasing intentions of the mock soup product with the different sodium claims.
Response to survey questions evaluating participants understanding of sodium claims
时间窗: On average the survey took 25 minutes to complete
After each mock package, understanding of sodium claims was evaluated using various survey methods. First, participants were asked to rate their perceived clarity of the wording of the claim using a 5 point likert scale (a subjective measure of understanding). Second, participants were ask to rate, on 5 point likert scales, the perceived benefit of consuming the mock package for subgroups with different health conditions (an indirect measure of understanding). Finally we asked participants, in an open ended question, to explain what a claim means to a friend (an objective measure of understanding).
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Mary R. L'Abbé
Earle W. McHenry Professor, and Chair, Department of Nutritional Sciences
University of Toronto