Social support, adherence to Mediterranean diet and physical activity in adults: results from a community-based cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT: There is a growing recognition that social support can potentially exert consistent or opposing effects in influencing health behaviours. The present paper presents a cross-sectional study, including 2,064 adults from Italy, Spain and Greece, who were participants in a multi-centre randomised controlled trial (C4H study), aiming to examine whether social support is correlated with adherence to a healthy Mediterranean diet and physical activity. Social support data were available for 1,572 participants. The majority of the sample reported emotional support availability (84·5 %), financial support availability (72·6 %) and having one or more close friends (78·2 %). Mediterranean diet adherence was significantly associated with emotional support (P = 0·009) and social network support (

SUBMITTER: Laiou E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7681167 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature