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Examining dietary self-talk content and context for discretionary snacking behaviour: a qualitative interview study
Background: Consuming discretionary snack foods high in calories, salt, sugar or fat in between regular meals can have a negative impact on weight management and health. Despite the intention to refrain from discretionary snacking, individuals often report feeling tempted by snack foods. A cognitive...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9004508/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35425666 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21642850.2022.2053686 |
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description | Background: Consuming discretionary snack foods high in calories, salt, sugar or fat in between regular meals can have a negative impact on weight management and health. Despite the intention to refrain from discretionary snacking, individuals often report feeling tempted by snack foods. A cognitive process to resolve food choice related tension may be dietary self-talk which is one’s inner speech around dietary choice. This study aimed to understand the content and context of dietary self-talk before consuming discretionary snack foods. Methods: Qualitative semi-structured interviews based on Think-Aloud methods were conducted remotely. Participants answered open-ended questions and were presented with a list of 37 dietary self-talk items. Interview transcripts were analyzed thematically. Results: Interviews (n = 18, age: 19–54 years, 9 men, 9 women) confirmed the frequent use of dietary self-talk with all 37 content items endorsed. Reported use was highest for the self-talk items: ‘It is a special occasion’; ‘I did physical activity/exercise today’; and ‘I am hungry’. Three new items were developed, eight items were refined. Identified key contextual themes were: ‘reward’, ‘social’, ‘convenience’, ‘automaticity’, and ‘hunger’. Conclusions: This study lists 40 reasons people use to allow themselves to consume discretionary snack foods and identifies contextual factors of dietary-self talk. All participants reported using dietary self-talk, with variation in content, frequency and degree of automaticity. Recognising and changing dietary self-talk may be a promising intervention target for changing discretionary snacking behaviour. |
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spelling | pubmed-90045082022-04-13 Examining dietary self-talk content and context for discretionary snacking behaviour: a qualitative interview study Rose, Jordan Pedrazzi, Rebecca Dombrowski, Stephan U. Health Psychol Behav Med Research Article Background: Consuming discretionary snack foods high in calories, salt, sugar or fat in between regular meals can have a negative impact on weight management and health. Despite the intention to refrain from discretionary snacking, individuals often report feeling tempted by snack foods. A cognitive process to resolve food choice related tension may be dietary self-talk which is one’s inner speech around dietary choice. This study aimed to understand the content and context of dietary self-talk before consuming discretionary snack foods. Methods: Qualitative semi-structured interviews based on Think-Aloud methods were conducted remotely. Participants answered open-ended questions and were presented with a list of 37 dietary self-talk items. Interview transcripts were analyzed thematically. Results: Interviews (n = 18, age: 19–54 years, 9 men, 9 women) confirmed the frequent use of dietary self-talk with all 37 content items endorsed. Reported use was highest for the self-talk items: ‘It is a special occasion’; ‘I did physical activity/exercise today’; and ‘I am hungry’. Three new items were developed, eight items were refined. Identified key contextual themes were: ‘reward’, ‘social’, ‘convenience’, ‘automaticity’, and ‘hunger’. Conclusions: This study lists 40 reasons people use to allow themselves to consume discretionary snack foods and identifies contextual factors of dietary-self talk. All participants reported using dietary self-talk, with variation in content, frequency and degree of automaticity. Recognising and changing dietary self-talk may be a promising intervention target for changing discretionary snacking behaviour. Routledge 2022-04-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9004508/ /pubmed/35425666 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21642850.2022.2053686 Text en © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Rose, Jordan Pedrazzi, Rebecca Dombrowski, Stephan U. Examining dietary self-talk content and context for discretionary snacking behaviour: a qualitative interview study |
title | Examining dietary self-talk content and context for discretionary snacking behaviour: a qualitative interview study |
title_full | Examining dietary self-talk content and context for discretionary snacking behaviour: a qualitative interview study |
title_fullStr | Examining dietary self-talk content and context for discretionary snacking behaviour: a qualitative interview study |
title_full_unstemmed | Examining dietary self-talk content and context for discretionary snacking behaviour: a qualitative interview study |
title_short | Examining dietary self-talk content and context for discretionary snacking behaviour: a qualitative interview study |
title_sort | examining dietary self-talk content and context for discretionary snacking behaviour: a qualitative interview study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9004508/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35425666 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21642850.2022.2053686 |
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