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- Analysis of factors that influence eating habits in different countriesPublication . Kalnina, I.; Straumite, E.; Klava, D.; Kruma, Z.; Bartkiene, E.; Isoldi, K.K.; Correia, Paula; Ferreira, Manuela; Guiné, Raquel P. F.Individual eating habits are influenced by a number of factors, including both internal variables such as physiology and emotion, as well as environmental factors such as food availability and cultural norms. Given the public health impact of dietary habits (choice, quality, amount, frequency) on health outcomes, it is important to understand what factors influence eating habits on a societal level. The aim of this research was to determine factors that influence eating habits and compare these factors between four different countries – Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal and the USA. An eating motivation questionnaire was used to measure eating habits in 3,348 respondents from different regions and countries. There were ten parts - demographical information, anthropometric data and behavioral and health related elements, sources of information about healthy eating, factors related to food choices according to motivations (health, emotional, economic, availability, social, cultural, environmental, political, marketing and commercials). Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, and self-reported motivation was compared across countries. Health was the primary motivator of food selection in this sample (71% of respondents), whereas 34% reported that emotional factors impact their dietary habits and 35% reported that economic factors determine their food selection. A large number of respondents (44%) disagreed or strongly disagree or disagreed with the idea that marketing impacts their dietary habits. Portugal had the highest number of participants (86%), reporting that they agreed or strongly agreed with having health-related motivations for food selection, with Latvia (65%) and Lithuania (76%) showing more moderate levels of endorsement of healthy eating motivations, and the USA having the fewest respondents (52%) endorsing health-related motivations. Respondents from Portugal were more likely than respondents from the other countries to deny having emotional, economic and marketing motivations in food selection. From results can conclude that consumers are motivated by healthiness factors when making food choices (71% of respondents), but marketing, economic and emotional factors positively impact only 30% of consumers, other respondents completely disagreed or was indifferent to these types of motivations. Baltic countries (Latvia and Lithuania) were similar to each other, but Portugal and USA were completely different. Portugal strongly agreed with healthy motivations and disagreed with all other motivations, whereas USA and also Baltic countries had more equal division of opinions regarding impact of different motivations.
- Latvian consumers eating motivationsPublication . Kalnina, I.; Straumite, E.; Klava, D.; Kruma, Z.; Guiné, RaquelThe society’s dietary habits make an important impact on overall health status, the food that are consumed daily can be one of factors that prevent or, on the contrary, intensify health issues. The aim of this research was to find out the factors that influence food choice of Latvian citizens. In the survey there was studied Latvian citizen’s eating motivation. The questionnaire was used as a basic tool which was completed by 240 respondents (80% female and 20% male) from different Latvia regions. The survey included ten parts – demographical information, anthropometric data and behavioural and health related elements, healthy food and sources of information about healthy eating, factors related to food choices according to healthy motivations, emotional motivations, economic and availability motivations, social and cultural motivations, environmental and political motivations, marketing and commercials motivations. The results of questionnaire show, that the 40% of respondents have motivation to eat healthy; Latvian citizens haven’t united viewpoint regarding emotional motivations for eating, but 47% of respondents have economic motivations for different food purchases; 44% of respondents are motivated by social and cultural issues, 32% of respondents have political motivations in food choice, but only 31% of respondents are affected by different marketing actions. This research was prepared in the ambit of the multinational project from CI&DETS Research Centre (IPV e Viseu, Portugal) with reference PROJ/CI&DETS/2016/0008: EATMOT.