ArticlePublic health nutrition2016
Perspectives of the public on reducing population salt intake in Ireland.
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- Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviours Related to Dietary Salt Intake in High-Income Countries: a Systematic Review.Current nutrition reports · 2018Pooled it
- The Science of Salt: A regularly updated systematic review of the implementation of salt reduction interventions (March-August 2016).Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2017Pooled it
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- Sodium salt substitution for blood pressure in adults with diabetes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Article
- Dietary Salt-Related Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviors in Healthy and Hypertensive Turkish Adults from Food Choice Perspective.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- How an agreement with restriction of unhealthy food marketing and sodium taxation influenced high fat, salt or sugar (HFSS) food consumption.BMC public health · 2024Article
- The association of knowledge, attitudes and behaviors related to salt with 24-h urinary sodium, potassium excretion and hypertensive status.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Barriers, Enablers, and Perceptions on Dietary Salt Reduction in the Out-of-Home Sectors: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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- A survey of Chinese consumers' knowledge, beliefs and behavioural intentions regarding salt intake and salt reduction.Public health nutrition · 2020Article
- The Science of Salt: A focused review on salt-related knowledge, attitudes and behaviors, and gender differences.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2018Review
- Applying a Consumer Behavior Lens to Salt Reduction Initiatives.Nutrients · 2017Review
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Abstract
objectiveAs countries struggle to meet the set targets for population salt intake, there have been calls for more regulated approaches to reducing dietary salt intake. However, little is known about how the public perceives various salt reduction policies; an important line of investigation given that the implementation and success of these policies often depend on public sentiment. We investigated the attitudes and beliefs of consumers towards salt reduction and their support for thirteen different government-led salt reduction policies.
designA cross-sectional online survey measured participants' knowledge, beliefs and attitudes in relation to salt reduction.
settingThe survey was carried out with participants from the Republic of Ireland. SUBJECTS: Five hundred and one participants recruited via a market research agency completed the survey.
resultsWe found that the vast majority of participants supported eleven of the government-led salt reduction policies, which included measures such as education, labelling and salt restriction in foods (both voluntary and regulated, across a range of settings). The two proposed fiscal policies (subsidising low-salt foods and taxing high-salt foods) received less support in comparison, with the majority of participants opposed to a tax on high-salt foods. A series of multiple regressions revealed that individual attitudes and beliefs related to health and salt were stronger predictors of support than sociodemographic factors, lifestyle or knowledge.
conclusionsThe study provides an important evidence base from which policy makers may draw when making decisions on future policy steps to help achieve national salt targets.
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