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Attitudes and Understanding of Sodium Claims on Food Labels

NCT01764724 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 987

Last updated 2013-01-10

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Summary

Sodium-related claims on food labels should help people find lower sodium food choices; however consumer attitudes and understanding of such claims are unknown.

The objective of this study was to evaluate: 1) the attitudes and understanding to different types of permitted sodium claims and 2) the effect of hypertension on responses to such claims.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mock package questionnaire

Within a online questionnaire we exposed participants randomly to 4 mock packages differing only by the nutrition claim it carried and asked participants to answer several questions on attitudes and understanding after each mock package.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Advance Foods and Materials Network

    collaborator OTHER

  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Canadian Stroke Network

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Toronto

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mary R L'Abbé, PhD · University of Toronto

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
69 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-09-30
Primary Completion
2011-10-31
Completion
2011-10-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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