worsley-differentpatterns-2014.pdf (715.09 kB)
Different patterns of Australian adults' knowledge of foods and nutrients related to metabolic disease risk
journal contribution
posted on 2014-01-01, 00:00 authored by Tony WorsleyTony Worsley, Wei Wang, S Byrne, H YeatmanA nationwide survey of 2022 consumers was conducted in Australia in late 2011. A short list of questions about knowledge of the nutrient composition of common foods was administered along with questions about the respondents’ food attitudes, demographics, school education and dieting practices. Overall, the results showed that nutrition knowledge was relatively high. Latent class analysis showed two groups of consumers with ‘high’ and ‘low’ knowledge of nutrition. Higher knowledge was positively associated with age, female sex, university education, experience of home economics or health education at school, having a chronic disease, and attitudes to food issues, and negatively with type 1 diabetes or the use of diabetes-control diets. The implications of the findings for nutrition communication are discussed.
History
Journal
Journal of nutritional scienceVolume
3Season
e14Pagination
1 - 7Publisher
Cambridge University PressLocation
Cambridge, EnglandPublisher DOI
ISSN
2048-6790Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2014, Cambridge University PressUsage metrics
Categories
No categories selectedKeywords
Licence
Exports
RefWorks
BibTeX
Ref. manager
Endnote
DataCite
NLM
DC