ArticleThe international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity2014
The association of knowledge, attitudes and behaviours related to salt with 24-hour urinary sodium excretion.
Article in The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02105727 (A Before After Comparison of the Effectiveness of a Community-based Salt Reduction Program Done in Lithgow, Australia), which is not on this map. Cited by 50 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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A Before After Comparison of the Effectiveness of a Community-based Salt Reduction Program Done in Lithgow, Australia
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50 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Factors affecting reductions in dietary salt consumption in people of Chinese descent: An integrative review.Journal of advanced nursing · 2022Pooled it
- Dietary Sodium Intake and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: A Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis.Nutrients · 2020Pooled it
- Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviours Related to Dietary Salt Intake in High-Income Countries: a Systematic Review.Current nutrition reports · 2018Pooled it
- Review of behaviour change interventions to reduce population salt intake.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2017Pooled it
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- Does education level affect the efficacy of a community based salt reduction program? - A post-hoc analysis of the China Rural Health Initiative Sodium Reduction Study (CRHI-SRS).BMC public health · 2016Trial
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- Salt-related knowledge, attitudes and practices and their relationship with 24-h urinary sodium and potassium excretions among a group of healthy residents in the UAE: a cross-sectional study.Public health nutrition · 2024Article
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- Knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to dietary salt among older adults in Abha, Saudi Arabia.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2024Article
- 24-hour urinary potassium excretion is negatively associated with self-reported sleep quality in the general population, independently of sleep-disordered breathing.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2022Article
- The association of knowledge, attitudes and behaviors related to salt with 24-h urinary sodium, potassium excretion and hypertensive status.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Estimation of Sodium Availability and Food Sources from 2018 to 2019 and Its Trends during the 2004-2019 Period in Costa Rica.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Salt-Related Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior in an Intervention to Reduce Added Salt When Cooking in a Sample of Adults in Portugal.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Salt-related practices and its association with 24-hour urinary sodium excretion in an Uruguayan population cohort.Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2022Article
- The Magnitude of Salt Intake Behaviors and Its Predictors among Saqez Urban Population of Kurdistan District in Iran: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of hypertension · 2022Article
- Using Digital Platform Approach to Reduce Salt Intake in a Sample of UAE Population: An Intervention Study.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Are there socio-demographic differences in salt behaviours and fruit and vegetable consumption in Australian adults? A nationally representative cross-sectional survey.Nutrition journal · 2021Article
- Strengthening Knowledge to Practice on Effective Salt Reduction Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.Current nutrition reports · 2021Review
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Abstract
aimSalt reduction efforts usually have a strong focus on consumer education. Understanding the association between salt consumption levels and knowledge, attitudes and behaviours towards salt should provide insight into the likely effectiveness of education-based programs.
methodsA single 24-hour urine sample and a questionnaire describing knowledge, attitudes and behaviours was obtained from 306 randomly selected participants and 113 volunteers from a regional town in Australia.
resultsMean age of all participants was 55 years (range 20-88), 55% were women and mean 24-hour urinary salt excretion was 8.8(3.6) g/d. There was no difference in salt excretion between the randomly selected and volunteer sample. Virtually all participants (95%) identified that a diet high in salt can cause serious health problems with the majority of participants (81%) linking a high salt diet to raised blood pressure. There was no difference in salt excretion between those who did 8.7(2.1) g/d and did not 7.5(3.3) g/d identify that a diet high in salt causes high blood pressure (p=0.1). Nor was there a difference between individuals who believed they consumed "too much" 8.9(3.3) g/d "just the right amount" 8.4(2.6) g/d or "too little salt" 9.1(3.7) g/d (p=0.2). Likewise, individuals who indicated that lowering their salt intake was important 8.5(2.9) g/d vs. not important 8.8(2.4) g/d did not have different consumption levels (p=0.4).
conclusionThe absence of a clear association between knowledge, attitudes and behaviours towards salt and actual salt consumption suggests that interventions focused on knowledge, attitudes and behaviours alone may be of limited efficacy.
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