Effects of front-of-package nutrition labelling systems on understanding and purchase intention in Jamaica: results from a multiarm randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the effects of three different front-of-package labelling (FOPL) schemes on objective understanding and intention to purchase of products, in Jamaica.

Setting

Supermarkets in Jamaica.

Participants

Adult supermarket shoppers in Jamaica (n=1206) aged 18 years old or older were included in the study, except for those visually impaired, or unable to give informed consent.

Design

Multiarm parallel-group randomised trial.

Interventions

Participants were randomly allocated to one of the three intervention groups or the control group. They were exposed to two-dimensional images of 12 mock-up products presented in random and balanced order. Participants assigned to the intervention groups were exposed to one FOPL scheme: black octagonal warnin

SUBMITTER: White-Barrow V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10083749 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature