Testing a conceptual Hierarchy of Effects model of food marketing exposure and associations with children and adolescents' diet-related outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Children's exposure to unhealthy food marketing contributes to poor diets by influencing the foods that children like, request, buy and consume. This study aimed to use confirmatory mediational analyses to test a hypothetical model of marketing effects, to better understand the mechanisms behind food marketing's impacts on children.

Design

Children responded to a cross-sectional online survey about their attitudes towards, and purchase and consumption behaviours of, ten frequently promoted food/beverage brands and their media use. Structural equation modelling tested a priori potential pathways for the effects of food marketing exposure on children's diets.

Participants

10-16-year-old children (n 400).

Setting

Australia.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Kelly B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10830363 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature