Public attitudes towards obesity policies on the island of Ireland; exploring the relationship with biopsychosocial characteristics.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Public attitudes towards policies targeting obesity can influence their implementation. Gaining a better understanding of the levels of public agreement with different policies and their determinants can contribute to the development of effective approaches that can halt the rise of obesity. This study aimed to: (1) group a number of different regulatory approaches to preventing obesity into coherent categories; and (2) explore how anthropometrics (bio), health behaviours and obesity-related beliefs and experiences (psycho) and social determinants (social) may influence agreement with different obesity-related policies on the island of Ireland.

Methods

A cross-sectional telephone survey collected data from a randomly selected quota sample of 1000 adults who live i

SUBMITTER: Spyreli E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12512851 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature