Impact of health warning labels and calorie labels on selection and purchasing of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks: A randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To estimate the impact on selection and actual purchasing of (a) health warning labels (text-only and image-and-text) on alcoholic drinks and (b) calorie labels on alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks.

Design

Parallel-groups randomised controlled trial.

Setting

Drinks were selected in a simulated online supermarket, before being purchased in an actual online supermarket.

Participants

Adults in England and Wales who regularly consumed and purchased beer or wine online (n = 651). Six hundred and eight participants completed the study and were included in the primary analysis.

Interventions

Participants were randomized to one of six groups in a between-subjects three [health warning labels (HWLs) (i): image-and-text HWL; (ii) text-only HWL; (iii) no HWL]

SUBMITTER: Clarke N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10952514 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature