Explaining the effects of a point-of-purchase nutrition-information intervention in university canteens: a structural equation modelling analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The importance of canteen meals in the diet of many university students makes the provision of simple point-of-purchase (POP) nutrition information in university canteens a potentially effective way to promote healthier diets in an important group of young adults. However, modifications to environments such as the posting of POP nutrition information in canteens may not cause an immediate change in meal choices and nutrient intakes. The present study aimed at understanding the process by which the POP nutrition information achieved its effects on the meal choice and energy intake, and whether the information was more effective in changing the meal choice of subgroups of university canteen customers.

Methods

The POP nutrition-information intervention used a one-gro

SUBMITTER: Hoefkens C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3499394 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature