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| Title |
Students’ perspectives on promoting healthful food choices from campus vending machines: a qualitative interview study
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, May 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12889-015-1859-2 |
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| Authors |
Habiba I. Ali, Amjad H. Jarrar, Mostafa Abo-El-Enen, Mariam Al Shamsi, Huda Al Ashqar |
| Abstract |
Increasing the healthfulness of campus food environments is an important step in promoting healthful food choices among college students. This study explored university students' suggestions on promoting healthful food choices from campus vending machines. It also examined factors influencing students' food choices from vending machines. Peer-led semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with 43 undergraduate students (33 females and 10 males) recruited from students enrolled in an introductory nutrition course in a large national university in the United Arab Emirates. Interviews were audiotaped, transcribed, and coded to generate themes using N-Vivo software. Accessibility, peer influence, and busy schedules were the main factors influencing students' food choices from campus vending machines. Participants expressed the need to improve the nutritional quality of the food items sold in the campus vending machines. Recommendations for students' nutrition educational activities included placing nutrition tips on or beside the vending machines and using active learning methods, such as competitions on nutrition knowledge. The results of this study have useful applications in improving the campus food environment and nutrition education opportunities at the university to assist students in making healthful food choices. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 8 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 5 | 63% |
| Australia | 2 | 25% |
| Unknown | 1 | 13% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 63% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 25% |
| Scientists | 1 | 13% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 152 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 2 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 149 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 26 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 24 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 9% |
| Researcher | 13 | 9% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 6 | 4% |
| Other | 30 | 20% |
| Unknown | 39 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 22 | 14% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 18 | 12% |
| Social Sciences | 17 | 11% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 13 | 9% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 8 | 5% |
| Other | 29 | 19% |
| Unknown | 45 | 30% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 July 2015.
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#5,579,918
of 22,807,037 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#5,504
of 14,858 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#65,013
of 266,679 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#98
of 226 outputs
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