Store-specific grocery shopping patterns and their association with objective and perceived retail food environments.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore store-specific grocery shopping patterns and assess associations with the objective and perceived retail food environment (RFE).

Design

This cross-sectional study used principal component analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis to identify grocery shopping patterns and logistic regression models to assess their associations with the RFE, while adjusting for household characteristics.

Setting

The Montpellier Metropolitan Area, France.

Participants

To be eligible for inclusion, participants had to be 18 years of age or older and reside in the Montpellier Metropolitan Area. Analyses were carried out on 415 households.

Results

Households of cluster 'Supermarket' (49 % of households) primarily shopped at supermarkets and were less like

SUBMITTER: Recchia D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10830372 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature