SynthesisPublic health nutrition2021
Association between health literacy and dietary intake of sugar, fat and salt: a systematic review.
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- Health literacy disparities in Thai university students: exploring differences between health science and non-health science disciplines.BMC public health · 2025Article
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- Understanding health literacy and digital healthy diet literacy in rural women in Türkiye: a cross-sectional study on social media use and Mediterranean diet adherence.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- The association between oral health literacy and oral health-related behaviours among female adolescents in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A cross-sectional study.The Saudi dental journal · 2024Article
- Dietary behaviors of rural residents in northeastern China: implications for designing intervention information and targeting high-risk population.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Specificity of the Associations between Indices of Cardiovascular Health with Health Literacy and Physical Literacy; A Cross-Sectional Study in Older Adolescents.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Article
- Are Health Literacy and Physical Literacy Independent Concepts? A Gender-Stratified Analysis in Medical School Students from Croatia.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Health literacy and cardiovascular disease prevention: a systematic scoping review protocol.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Current Knowledge and Behavior towards Salt Reduction among Hong Kong Citizens: A Cross-Sectional Survey.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Applying a Multi-Dimensional Digital Food and Nutrition Literacy Model to Inform Research and Policies to Enable Adults in the U.S. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to Make Healthy Purchases in the Online Food Retail Ecosystem.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo collect and summarise all current data from observational studies, generating evidence of the association between health literacy (HL) and the dietary intake of sugar, salt and fat, to analyse intervention studies on the promotion of an appropriate dietary intake of the above-mentioned nutrients and to ascertain whether HL moderates the efficacy of such intervention.
designA systematic literature search of analytical observational studies on the association between HL and dietary intake of sugar, salt and fat was performed in Medline and Scopus databases. Intervention studies on the promotion of healthy nutrition that concerned the intake of sugar, salt and fat were also assessed.
resultsOf the eight observational studies included in this review, five investigated dietary intake of sugar, one focused on salt, one assessed sugar and salt and one analysed the fat intake. The results of the five studies assessing sugar were mixed: three found an association between low levels of HL and a high sugar intake, one found this association only for boys and two found no evidence of any association. The two studies assessing salt and the one assessing fat found no evidence of any association with HL. One intervention study on the sugar intake concluded that HL was not a significant moderator of the intervention's effectiveness.
conclusionNo evidence of any association between HL and salt and fat intake emerged, while for sugar, the results are mixed. More work is needed to better understand the moderating effects of HL on the outcomes of health promotion interventions.
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