Development and testing of the Sustainable Nutrition Environment Measures Survey for retail stores in Ontario.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To develop and test a tool to assess the price and availability of low-carbon footprint and nutritionally balanced dietary patterns in retail food environments in Ontario, Canada.

Design

Availability and price of selected food from discount and regular grocery stores (n 23) in urban/rural areas of northern/southern Ontario were assessed with the Sustainable Nutrition Environment Measures Survey in 2017.

Setting

Ontario, Canada.

Results

Inter-rater reliability was high for price (intra-class correlation coefficients = 0·819) and for availability (Cohen's κ = 0·993). The tool showed 78 % of the selected food items were available in all stores. Overall, price differences were small between urban and rural locations, and northern and southern Ontario. The

SUBMITTER: Mollaei S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10195576 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature