Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption, Perceptions, and Disparities in Children and Adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the association between sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) perceptions-knowledge, attitudes, and norms and media literacy-and beverage consumption, and to identify differences in beverage consumption and SSB perceptions by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status.

Design

Cross-sectional.

Setting

Diverse California school district.

Participants

A total of 992 fifth-grade (elementary), seventh-grade (middle), and ninth-12th-grade (high school) students.

Main outcome measures

Questionnaire-assessed continuous beverage consumption and perceptions.

Analysis

Linear regression adjusting for school, grade, gender, race/ethnicity, and free and reduced-price meal (FRPM) eligibility.

Results

Knowledge, attitudes, and norms, and media l

SUBMITTER: Roesler A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8388314 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature