A Multicenter Study Evaluating the Stages of Change in Food Consumption with Warning Labels among Chilean University Students.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To analyze the stage of change in food consumption with warning labels among Chilean university students.

Materials and methods

Cross-sectional study which applied surveys in universities from all over the country. Study included 4807 participants of 18 to 40 years of both sexes who were asked about the level of knowledge of the new food law and food consumption with warning signals, including questions regarding their willingness to behavior change according to Prochaska's transtheoretical model. To compare continuous variables, Student's t-test was used in the statistical package SPSS 22.0, and p <0.05 was considered a significant difference.

Results

Of the total number of respondents, 99.3% of the students indicated that they know about the food law, clas

SUBMITTER: Duran Aguero S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7212336 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature