Extending the Theory of Planned Behavior for Explaining Dietary Quality : The Role of Financial Scarcity and Food Insecurity Status

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OBJECTIVE: To examine whether an extended Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) that included finance-related barriers better explained dietary quality.

DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey.

PARTICIPANTS: One-thousand and thirty-three participants were included from a Dutch independent adult panel.

MAIN OUTCOME: Dietary quality.

ANALYSIS: Five TPB models were assessed: a traditional TPB, a TPB that included direct associations between attitude and subjective norm with dietary quality, a TPB that additionally included financial scarcity or food insecurity, and a TPB that additionally included financial scarcity and food insecurity simultaneously. Structural relationships among the constructs were tested to compare the explanatory power.

RESULTS: The traditional TPB showed poorest fit (χ2/degrees of freedom = 11; comparative fit index = 0.75; root mean square error of approximation [95% confidence interval], 0.10 [0.091-0.12]; standardized root mean square residual = 0.049), the most extended TPB (including both financial scarcity and food insecurity) showed best fit (χ2/degrees of freedom = 3.3; comparative fit index = 0.95; root mean square error of approximation [95% confidence interval], 0.050 [0.035-0.065]; standardized root mean square residual = 0.018). All 5 structure models explained ∼42% to 43% of the variance in intention; however, the variance in dietary quality was better explained by the extended TPB models, including food insecurity and/or financial scarcity (∼22%) compared with the traditional TBP (∼7%), indicating that these models better explained differences in dietary quality.

CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS: These findings highlight the importance of accounting for finance-related barriers to healthy eating like financial scarcity or food insecurity to better understand individual dietary behaviors in lower socioeconomic groups.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:54

Enthalten in:

Journal of nutrition education and behavior - 54(2022), 7 vom: 26. Juli, Seite 636-646

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

van der Velde, Laura A [VerfasserIn]
van Dijk, Wilco W [VerfasserIn]
Numans, Mattijs E [VerfasserIn]
Kiefte-de Jong, Jessica C [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Diet quality
Financial scarcity
Food insecurity
Journal Article
Theory of Planned Behavior

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Date Completed 12.07.2022

Date Revised 03.09.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jneb.2022.02.019

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM34166829X