ArticleBMC public health2025
Voicing residents' perception of (commercial) food cues in outdoor public spaces: a photovoice study.
Article in BMC public health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
Abstract
background(Commercial) food cues in outdoor public spaces are environmental drivers of unhealthy diets. This study aimed to explore residents' perceptions of food cues in outdoor public spaces in relation to their perceived food environment, eating behaviour, and their opinion on governmental outdoor food cue regulations.
methodsA photovoice study, consisting of a photography assignment followed by semi-structured interviews, was conducted among 15 adult residents of the municipality of Wageningen, the Netherlands. Participants had one week to take photographs of outdoor food cues they encountered in their municipality, using a mobile app "myfoodenvironment", that were central to the interview afterwards.
resultsParticipants mainly noticed unhealthy food cues, which they viewed as constant 'reminders' that unhealthy food was easily accessible and affordable. Their views varied on the extent to which food cues affected their own eating behaviour, but generally believed that food cues affected that of others. Participants identified several factors that amplify outdoor food cues' influence on eating behaviour, including hunger, fatigue and attractiveness of the cues. The findings revealed support for government regulation of food cues, while acknowledging the complexity of this issue and the diverse perspectives on how such regulations should be designed (e.g., where, for whom), with one notable counterargument being concerns about feeling patronized by such policies.
conclusionsCurrent findings may inform health professionals and (local) policy makers about the unhealthy food cues encountered by residents in outdoor public spaces, which unconsciously influence their eating behaviour, while also providing insights into designing food cue regulations that attract policy support by balancing public health goals with considerations of consumer autonomy and citizen preferences.
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.