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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Amelia Lake, Emeritus Professor Andrew Rugg-Gunn, Dr Robert Hyland, Professor John Mathers, Professor Ashley AdamsonORCiD
Dietary patterns and change in eating habits are influenced by multiple factors from an individual's internal and external environment. A longitudinal dietary survey study provided quantitative evidence of dietary change and investigated factors influencing dietary change from adolescence to adulthood, using sociodemographic data and participants' own perceptions of, and attributions for, their dietary change. Longitudinal dietary data were obtained in 1980 and 2000 (average age 11.6 and 32.5 years, respectively). Two questionnaires (2000) and 2×3-day food diaries (1980 and 2000) were collected from 198 participants. Foods consumed were assigned to one of the five food groups from The Balance of Good Health (a UK food guide). Questionnaire responses were used to examine how subjects perceived their own dietary change and the factors to which they attributed such change. Six key factors were identified from the questionnaire: parents, partners, children, nutritional awareness, employment and lack of time. Demographic and key factors were associated with degree of change in intake. The complex process of change in food consumption can be linked with an individual's attributions for change. Author Keywords: Attributions; Perceptions; Dietary change; Longitudinal study
Author(s): Lake AA, Rugg-Gunn AJ, Hyland RM, Wood CE, Mathers JC, Adamson AJ
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Appetite
Year: 2004
Volume: 42
Issue: 3
Pages: 255-263
Print publication date: 07/02/2004
Date deposited: 07/12/2009
ISSN (print): 0195-6663
ISSN (electronic): 1095-8304
Publisher: Elsevier BV
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2003.11.008
DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2003.11.008
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