Factors associated with the understanding of nutritional labels reported by consumers in a city in the interior of Sao Paulo

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Autor(a) principal: Santos, Ellen R.
Data de Publicação: 2023
Outros Autores: Corrente, Jose Eduardo [UNESP], Fumes-Ghantous, Giovana
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: por
Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/245614
Resumo: The nutritional labels help people to do choices about their products. This study evaluated the factors associated to the ease comprehension of nutritional labels related by consumers in a countryside city of Sao Paulo state, Brazil. A questionnaire was answered by 100 consumers of a supermarket chain, through which sociodemographic variables and information about labels were collected. For sample characterization, tables with percentage values were used; chi-square tests were performed to verify the association between the variables studied and the ease of understanding of the contents contained in the labels, and a logistic regression model was proposed. The factors that showed significant associations with the understanding of the contents on the labels were gender, age, education level and previous knowledge to their information (p<0.05). According to the logistic model, corrected by age, to assess the ease of understanding the labels, it was found that men were more likely to understand their contents than women (OR (CI 95%): 0.284 (0.092-0.876)), as well as those people who already had some previous education on the subjects described in them (OR (CI 95%): 0.106(0.029-0.390)). People with more education reported having more problems to understand the information (OR (CI 95%): 3.572(1.257-10.152)). It was concluded that gender, age group, education level and to have accessing to prior information about labels affect the understanding of their contents; and detailed and more accessible label is desirable.
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spelling Factors associated with the understanding of nutritional labels reported by consumers in a city in the interior of Sao Paulologistic regressionlabelingassociation testsThe nutritional labels help people to do choices about their products. This study evaluated the factors associated to the ease comprehension of nutritional labels related by consumers in a countryside city of Sao Paulo state, Brazil. A questionnaire was answered by 100 consumers of a supermarket chain, through which sociodemographic variables and information about labels were collected. For sample characterization, tables with percentage values were used; chi-square tests were performed to verify the association between the variables studied and the ease of understanding of the contents contained in the labels, and a logistic regression model was proposed. The factors that showed significant associations with the understanding of the contents on the labels were gender, age, education level and previous knowledge to their information (p<0.05). According to the logistic model, corrected by age, to assess the ease of understanding the labels, it was found that men were more likely to understand their contents than women (OR (CI 95%): 0.284 (0.092-0.876)), as well as those people who already had some previous education on the subjects described in them (OR (CI 95%): 0.106(0.029-0.390)). People with more education reported having more problems to understand the information (OR (CI 95%): 3.572(1.257-10.152)). It was concluded that gender, age group, education level and to have accessing to prior information about labels affect the understanding of their contents; and detailed and more accessible label is desirable.Univ Sao Paulo, Fac Zootecnia & Engn Alimentos, Sao Paulo, BrazilUNESP, Inst Biociencias, Dept Bioestat, Botucatu, SP, BrazilUNESP, Inst Biociencias, Dept Bioestat, Botucatu, SP, BrazilUniv Federal AlfenasUniversidade de São Paulo (USP)Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)Santos, Ellen R.Corrente, Jose Eduardo [UNESP]Fumes-Ghantous, Giovana2023-07-29T12:00:01Z2023-07-29T12:00:01Z2023-01-01info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/article123-128Sigmae. Alfenas: Univ Federal Alfenas, v. 12, n. 1, p. 123-128, 2023.2317-0840http://hdl.handle.net/11449/245614WOS:000968046600012Web of Sciencereponame:Repositório Institucional da UNESPinstname:Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)instacron:UNESPporSigmaeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess2023-07-29T12:00:01Zoai:repositorio.unesp.br:11449/245614Repositório InstitucionalPUBhttp://repositorio.unesp.br/oai/requestopendoar:29462024-08-05T23:29:51.992050Repositório Institucional da UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)false
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Factors associated with the understanding of nutritional labels reported by consumers in a city in the interior of Sao Paulo
title Factors associated with the understanding of nutritional labels reported by consumers in a city in the interior of Sao Paulo
spellingShingle Factors associated with the understanding of nutritional labels reported by consumers in a city in the interior of Sao Paulo
Santos, Ellen R.
logistic regression
labeling
association tests
title_short Factors associated with the understanding of nutritional labels reported by consumers in a city in the interior of Sao Paulo
title_full Factors associated with the understanding of nutritional labels reported by consumers in a city in the interior of Sao Paulo
title_fullStr Factors associated with the understanding of nutritional labels reported by consumers in a city in the interior of Sao Paulo
title_full_unstemmed Factors associated with the understanding of nutritional labels reported by consumers in a city in the interior of Sao Paulo
title_sort Factors associated with the understanding of nutritional labels reported by consumers in a city in the interior of Sao Paulo
author Santos, Ellen R.
author_facet Santos, Ellen R.
Corrente, Jose Eduardo [UNESP]
Fumes-Ghantous, Giovana
author_role author
author2 Corrente, Jose Eduardo [UNESP]
Fumes-Ghantous, Giovana
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Santos, Ellen R.
Corrente, Jose Eduardo [UNESP]
Fumes-Ghantous, Giovana
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv logistic regression
labeling
association tests
topic logistic regression
labeling
association tests
description The nutritional labels help people to do choices about their products. This study evaluated the factors associated to the ease comprehension of nutritional labels related by consumers in a countryside city of Sao Paulo state, Brazil. A questionnaire was answered by 100 consumers of a supermarket chain, through which sociodemographic variables and information about labels were collected. For sample characterization, tables with percentage values were used; chi-square tests were performed to verify the association between the variables studied and the ease of understanding of the contents contained in the labels, and a logistic regression model was proposed. The factors that showed significant associations with the understanding of the contents on the labels were gender, age, education level and previous knowledge to their information (p<0.05). According to the logistic model, corrected by age, to assess the ease of understanding the labels, it was found that men were more likely to understand their contents than women (OR (CI 95%): 0.284 (0.092-0.876)), as well as those people who already had some previous education on the subjects described in them (OR (CI 95%): 0.106(0.029-0.390)). People with more education reported having more problems to understand the information (OR (CI 95%): 3.572(1.257-10.152)). It was concluded that gender, age group, education level and to have accessing to prior information about labels affect the understanding of their contents; and detailed and more accessible label is desirable.
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