NCT01764724

Attitudes and Understanding of Sodium Claims on Food Labels

Consumer Attitudes and Understanding of Low Sodium Claims on Food: An Analysis of Healthy and Hypertensive Individuals

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 987 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Toronto · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 69 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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

• Hypertension

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-09-01
• Primary completion: 2011-10-01
• Completion: 2011-10-01
• First posted: 2013-01-10
• Last updated: 2013-01-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada