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Healthy motivations for food consumption in 16 countries
Guiné, Raquel; Joana Gonçalves; Florença, Sofia de Guiné e; Ferreira, Manuela; Cardoso, Ana Paula; Elena Bartkiene; Djekić, Ilija; Tarcea,MonicaThere are many factors that can influence people’s attitudes towards healthy eating, including personal nature, sociodemographic influences, and lifestyle. This work investigated to what extent the motivations for healthy food consumption are shaped in individuals from different countries. A questionnaire survey was carried out on a sample of 11,919 participants from 16 countries. The results indicated that the...
Motivation for health behaviour: A predictor of adherence to balanced and healt...
Ljubičić, Marija; Sarić, Marijana Matek; Klarin, Ivo; Rumbak, Ivana; Barić, Irena Colić; Ranilović, Jasmina; EL-Kenawy, Ayman; Papageorgiou, MariaThis cross-sectional study aimed to assess perceptions of healthy food and motivation for health behaviour (MHB) in different Mediterranean countries. Multiple linear regression was used to identify the association between perception of healthy food and MHB in different countries. The highest MHB was observed in Portugal (median 38.0; IQR 7.0) and the lowest in Greece (median 34.0; IQR 8.0). Compared to Portugu...
Cultural dimensions associated with food choice: A survey based multi-country s...
Djekic, Ilija; Bartkiene, Elena; Szűcs, Viktória; Tarcea, Monica; Klarin, Ivo; Černelić-Bizjak, Maša; Isoldi, Kathy; EL-Kenawy, Ayman; Ferreira, VanessaThe aim of this research was to analyze motivations behind food choices from a cross-cultural perspective. It presents results derived from a multi-country study associated with Hofstede's cultural dimensions. A total of 11,919 respondents from 16 countries took part in this research. Two groups of statements were included in the survey: ‘economic & availability motivations' and ‘social & cultural motivations'....
Study about Food Choice Determinants According to Six Types of Conditioning Mot...
Guiné, Raquel; Bartkiene, Elena; Szűcs, Viktória; Tarcea, Monica; Ljubičić, Marija; Černelič-Bizjak, Maša; Isoldi, Kathy; EL-Kenawy, AymanMany aspects linked to personal characteristics, society and culture constitute some of the motivators that drive food choice. The aim of this work was to determine in what extent the eating behaviors of individuals are shaped by six different types of determinants, namely: health, emotions, price and availability, society and culture, environment and politics, and marketing and commercials. This is a descripti...
Influence of sociodemographic factors on eating motivations – modelling through...
Guiné, Raquel; Ferrão, Ana Cristina; Ferreira, Manuela; Correia, Paula; Mendes, Mateus; Bartkiene, Elena; Szűcs, Viktória; Tarcea, MonicaThis study aimed at investigating the influence of some sociodemographic factors on the eating motivations. A longitudinal study was carried conducted with 11960 participants from 16 countries. Data analysis included t-test for independent samples or ANOVA, and neural network models were also created, to relate the input and output variables. Results showed that factors like age, marital status, country, living...
Study about some environmental factors that determine people’s food choices in ...
Guiné, Raquel; Ferreira, Manuela; Correia, Paula; Leal, Marcela; Ferreira, Vanessa; Rumbak, Ivana; EL-Kenawy, Ayman; Papageorgiou, MariaIn the ambit of the multinational project EATMOT undertaken in 16 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Croatia, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and United States of America) a study was undertaken to evaluate the motivations for food choices as influenced by variables linked to sustainability. In this way aspects related with minimization of tr...
EATMOT Project: Eating motivations in different parts of the world, and particu...
Guiné, Raquel; Ferrão, Ana Cristina; Ferreira, Manuela; Correia, Paula; Cardoso, Ana Paula; Duarte, João; Rumbak, Ivana; Vittadini, ElenaThe EATMOT Project is a multinational study about different eating motivations, and that is being carried out in 18 countries. The project addresses several types of factors that are related to food choice and consumption patterns, and that may in some extent condition the eating motivations, namely health related factors; economic and availability aspects; emotional determinants; social, cultural and religious...
Benefits of dietary fibre to human health: study from a multi-country platform
Guiné, Raquel; Duarte, João; Ferreira, Manuela; Correia, Paula; Leal, Marcela; Rumbak, Ivana; Baric, Irena; Komes, Drazenka; Satalic, ZvonimirPurpose: Because dietary fibre has been recognized as a major ally to the maintenance of a healthy body as well as to help against the development of some chronic diseases, this work aimed at studying the level of knowledge of a relatively wide range of people about the health effects related to the ingestion of dietary fibre in appropriate dosages. Methodology: A descriptive cross-sectional study was undertake...
Knowledge about dietary fibre: a fibre study framework
Guiné, Raquel; Ferreira, Manuela; Correia, Paula; Duarte, João; Leal, Marcela; Rumbak, Ivana; Barić, Irena C.; Komes, Drazenka; Satalić, ZvonimirThe objective of this work was to study the degree of knowledge about dietary fibre (DF), as influenced by factors such as gender, level of education, living environment or country. For this, a descriptive cross-sectional study was undertaken on a non-probabilistic sample of 6010 participants from 10 countries in different continents (Europe, Africa and America). The results showed that the participants reveale...