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The effect of providing nutritional information about fast-food restaurant menus on parents' meal choices for their children
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: To encourage healthier food choices for children in fast-food restaurants, many initiatives have been proposed. This study aimed to examine the effect of disclosing nutritional information on parents' meal choices for their children at fast-food restaurants in South Korea...
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The Korean Nutrition Society and the Korean Society of Community Nutrition
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4667209/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26634057 http://dx.doi.org/10.4162/nrp.2015.9.6.667 |
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author | Ahn, Jae-Young Park, Hae-Ryun Lee, Kiwon Kwon, Sooyoun Kim, Soyeong Yang, Jihye Song, Kyung-Hee Lee, Youngmi |
author_facet | Ahn, Jae-Young Park, Hae-Ryun Lee, Kiwon Kwon, Sooyoun Kim, Soyeong Yang, Jihye Song, Kyung-Hee Lee, Youngmi |
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description | BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: To encourage healthier food choices for children in fast-food restaurants, many initiatives have been proposed. This study aimed to examine the effect of disclosing nutritional information on parents' meal choices for their children at fast-food restaurants in South Korea. SUBJECTS/METHODS: An online experimental survey using a menu board was conducted with 242 parents of children aged 2-12 years who dined with them at fast-food restaurants at least once a month. Participants were classified into two groups: the low-calorie group (n = 41) who chose at least one of the lowest calorie meals in each menu category, and the high-calorie group (n = 201) who did not. The attributes including perceived empowerment, use of provided nutritional information, and perceived difficulties were compared between the two groups. RESULTS: The low-calorie group perceived significantly higher empowerment with the nutritional information provided than did the high-calorie group (P = 0.020). Additionally, the low-calorie group was more interested in nutrition labeling (P < 0.001) and considered the nutritional value of menus when selecting restaurants for their children more than did the high-calorie group (P = 0.017). The low-calorie group used the nutritional information provided when choosing meals for their children significantly more than did the high-calorie group (P < 0.001), but the high-calorie group had greater difficulty using the nutritional information provided (P = 0.012). CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest that improving the empowerment of parents using nutritional information could be a strategy for promoting healthier parental food choices for their children at fast-food restaurants. |
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spelling | pubmed-46672092015-12-02 The effect of providing nutritional information about fast-food restaurant menus on parents' meal choices for their children Ahn, Jae-Young Park, Hae-Ryun Lee, Kiwon Kwon, Sooyoun Kim, Soyeong Yang, Jihye Song, Kyung-Hee Lee, Youngmi Nutr Res Pract Original Research BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: To encourage healthier food choices for children in fast-food restaurants, many initiatives have been proposed. This study aimed to examine the effect of disclosing nutritional information on parents' meal choices for their children at fast-food restaurants in South Korea. SUBJECTS/METHODS: An online experimental survey using a menu board was conducted with 242 parents of children aged 2-12 years who dined with them at fast-food restaurants at least once a month. Participants were classified into two groups: the low-calorie group (n = 41) who chose at least one of the lowest calorie meals in each menu category, and the high-calorie group (n = 201) who did not. The attributes including perceived empowerment, use of provided nutritional information, and perceived difficulties were compared between the two groups. RESULTS: The low-calorie group perceived significantly higher empowerment with the nutritional information provided than did the high-calorie group (P = 0.020). Additionally, the low-calorie group was more interested in nutrition labeling (P < 0.001) and considered the nutritional value of menus when selecting restaurants for their children more than did the high-calorie group (P = 0.017). The low-calorie group used the nutritional information provided when choosing meals for their children significantly more than did the high-calorie group (P < 0.001), but the high-calorie group had greater difficulty using the nutritional information provided (P = 0.012). CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest that improving the empowerment of parents using nutritional information could be a strategy for promoting healthier parental food choices for their children at fast-food restaurants. The Korean Nutrition Society and the Korean Society of Community Nutrition 2015-12 2015-11-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4667209/ /pubmed/26634057 http://dx.doi.org/10.4162/nrp.2015.9.6.667 Text en ©2015 The Korean Nutrition Society and the Korean Society of Community Nutrition http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Research Ahn, Jae-Young Park, Hae-Ryun Lee, Kiwon Kwon, Sooyoun Kim, Soyeong Yang, Jihye Song, Kyung-Hee Lee, Youngmi The effect of providing nutritional information about fast-food restaurant menus on parents' meal choices for their children |
title | The effect of providing nutritional information about fast-food restaurant menus on parents' meal choices for their children |
title_full | The effect of providing nutritional information about fast-food restaurant menus on parents' meal choices for their children |
title_fullStr | The effect of providing nutritional information about fast-food restaurant menus on parents' meal choices for their children |
title_full_unstemmed | The effect of providing nutritional information about fast-food restaurant menus on parents' meal choices for their children |
title_short | The effect of providing nutritional information about fast-food restaurant menus on parents' meal choices for their children |
title_sort | effect of providing nutritional information about fast-food restaurant menus on parents' meal choices for their children |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4667209/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26634057 http://dx.doi.org/10.4162/nrp.2015.9.6.667 |
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