Reducing Retail Merchandising of Discretionary Food and Beverages in Remote Indigenous Community Stores: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Discretionary food and beverages (products high in saturated fat, added sugars, and salt) are detrimental to a healthy diet. Nevertheless, they provide 42% of total energy and account for 53% of food and beverage expenditure for remote living Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, contributing to the excessive burden of chronic diseases experienced by this population group. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study is to test an intervention to reduce sales of discretionary products, in collaboration with the Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation (ALPA), which operates 25 stores in very remote Australia, by reducing their merchandising and substituting with core products in remote Australian communities. METHODS:We will use a community-level randomized controlled pragmat

SUBMITTER: Brimblecombe J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6538313 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature