Competing public narratives in nutrition policy: insights into the ideational barriers of public support for regulatory nutrition measures.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Enacting evidence-based public health policy can be challenging. One factor contributing to this challenge is a lack of public support for specific policies, which may stem from limited interest or conviction by policy arguments. This can happen when messaging strategies regarding policy do not resonate with the target group and/or policy narratives compete in public discourse. To understand how policy messaging can better resonate with a target audience, we examined the frames and narratives used by the Australian public when discussing nutrition policies.

Methods

We conducted 76 street intercept interviews in urban and regional settings in Queensland, Australia. Quantitative data were analysed using mean agreement scores and t-tests, and the qualitative data wer

SUBMITTER: Cullerton K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9361541 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature