ArticleNutrition & dietetics : the journal of the Dietitians Association of Australia2022
Work site food purchases among healthcare staff: Relationship with healthy eating and opportunities for intervention.
Article in Nutrition & dietetics : the journal of the Dietitians Association of Australia, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Healthcare staff perceptions of the hospital food environment: a narrative systematic review.Public health nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Determinants of dairy products purchase decisions among polish doctors: A gender-based analysis.PloS one · 2026Article
- Eating Behaviours Among Healthcare Workers and Their Relationships With Work-Related Burnout.American journal of lifestyle medicine · 2025Article
- Implementing healthy food policies in health sector settings: New Zealand stakeholder perspectives.BMC nutrition · 2024Article
- Awareness, support, and opinions of healthy food and drink policies: a survey of staff and visitors in New Zealand healthcare organisations.BMC public health · 2024Article
- The Psychoneuroimmunological Model of Moral Distress and Health in Healthcare Workers: Toward Individual and System-Level Solutions.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2024Review
- Characterizing food environments of hospitals and long-term care facilities in the Netherlands: a mixed methods approach.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Meat-Free Mondays in Hospital Cafés in Aotearoa, New Zealand.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Work site food purchases among healthcare staff: Relationship with healthy eating and opportunities for intervention.Nutrition & dietetics : the journal of the Dietitians Association of Australia · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
aimThe current study describes food-purchasing behaviours of healthcare staff, determines whether purchasing food at work is associated with overall indicators of healthy eating, and explores opportunities for improving the hospital food environment.
methodsA secondary analysis of a health and wellbeing survey of healthcare workers (n = 501) in Queensland, Australia. Multiple regression models describe the associations between food purchases and indicators of healthy eating, while controlling for age, gender and work role.
resultsMore than 60% of staff purchased food/drinks at work in the past week, and this was inversely associated with indicators of healthy eating. For example, among those purchasing food/drinks at work on most days, only 18% reported their overall diet as excellent or very good, compared to 50% of those who do not purchase food/drink at work (odds ratio [OR] = 0.24; 95% confidence interval [CI] = [0.12,0.48] in adjusted models). Staff feedback prioritised strategies to make healthy meals more accessible and affordable.
conclusionImprovements to the retail food environment in hospitals could have a positive impact on the overall nutritional wellbeing of staff.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.