Why Don’t You [Government] Help Us Make Healthier Foods More Affordable Instead of Bombarding Us with Labels? Maternal Knowledge, Perceptions, and Practices after Full Implementation of the Chilean Food Labelling Law
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Methods
2.1. Participants
2.2. Procedures
2.3. Analytical Strategy
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
Abbreviations
FoP: | front-of-package warning label |
SES: | Socio-economic status |
yo: | Years old |
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Higher | Middle | Lower | |
---|---|---|---|
Education | Complete College or higher | Complete college | 95% complete high school 5% incomplete high school |
Monthly income | CLP 2,500,000–5,000,000 (USD 3000–6000) | CLP 1,100,000–2,500,000 (USD 1300–3000) | CLP 250,000-750,000 (USD 300–950) |
Material goods | 100% own car, own house and housekeeping service | 75% own car, 50% own house, 20% housekeeping service | 0% own house, 0% own car, 0% housekeeping service |
Districts | Vitacura, Las Condes, Providencia, La Reina | Peñalolén, Ñuñoa, La Florida, Pudahuel, San Miguel, Maipú, Providencia, Santiago, La Cisterna | La Florida, Puente Alto, La Granja, Renca, El Bosque, Maipú, Quinta Normal, Puente Alto, Macul |
Occupation/ Profession | Lawyer, architect, business, Public relation officer, midwife, designer, real-state curator | Prevention, technician, executive secretary, IT, homemaker, property broker, teacher, accountant. | 33% homemaker, manicurist, janitor, saleswoman, machine operator. |
2017 | 2021 | |
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Attention to labels | ||
Knowledge and understanding (more labels, less healthy) | X | X |
Uncovering role of labels | X | X |
Gradational attention to labels (from no attention to being a shorcut when buying) or went unnoto | X | |
Warnings of potential negative effect (omnipresence) | X | |
Fatigue/disensitization/saturation | X | |
Schools’ role | ||
Schools as agent of change | X | |
Schools are irrelevant because of closure | X | |
Marketing strategies | ||
Skepticism/confusion | X | |
Unnoticed | X | |
Nutrition consciouness | ||
Value natural foods | X | |
Presence of labels equals more processed food | X | |
Pandemic triggered a value in homecooking | X | |
Lack of access to healthy food | ||
Healthy food is more pricey | X | |
Lack of availability because of the pandemic | X |
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Correa, T.; Fierro, C.; Reyes, M.; Taillie, L.S.; Carpentier, F.R.D.; Corvalán, C. Why Don’t You [Government] Help Us Make Healthier Foods More Affordable Instead of Bombarding Us with Labels? Maternal Knowledge, Perceptions, and Practices after Full Implementation of the Chilean Food Labelling Law. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 4547. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084547
Correa T, Fierro C, Reyes M, Taillie LS, Carpentier FRD, Corvalán C. Why Don’t You [Government] Help Us Make Healthier Foods More Affordable Instead of Bombarding Us with Labels? Maternal Knowledge, Perceptions, and Practices after Full Implementation of the Chilean Food Labelling Law. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022; 19(8):4547. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084547
Chicago/Turabian StyleCorrea, Teresa, Camila Fierro, Marcela Reyes, Lindsey Smith Taillie, Francesca Renee Dillman Carpentier, and Camila Corvalán. 2022. "Why Don’t You [Government] Help Us Make Healthier Foods More Affordable Instead of Bombarding Us with Labels? Maternal Knowledge, Perceptions, and Practices after Full Implementation of the Chilean Food Labelling Law" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 8: 4547. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084547