Association of a Community Campaign for Better Beverage Choices With Beverage Purchases From Supermarkets.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Data are needed to evaluate community interventions to reduce consumption of sugary drinks. Supermarket sales data can be used for this purpose.

Objective

To compare beverage sales in Howard County, Maryland (HC), with sales in comparison stores in a contiguous state before and during a 3-year campaign to reduce consumption of sugary beverages.

Design, setting, and partipicants

This observational experiment with a control group included 15 HC supermarkets and 17 comparison supermarkets. Weekly beverage sales data at baseline (January 1 to December 31, 2012) and from campaign years 1 to 3 (January 1, 2013, through December 31, 2015) were analyzed. A difference-in-differences (DID) regression compared the volume sales per product per week in the HC and compar

SUBMITTER: Schwartz MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5470385 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature