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Factors affecting food choices of older adults from high and low socioeconomic groups.

Factors affecting food choices of older adults from high and low socioeconomic groups – a discrete choice experiment

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
ISRCTN
Registry ID
ISRCTN60293770
Enrollment
400
Registered
2014-12-08
Start date
2012-10-15
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2015-07-06

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Conditions

Meal choices Nutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine

Interventions

Participants were offered a series of 12 choice sets about a usual dinner at home, and, in each of the 12 choice sets, asked to choose between two meals. In each choice set, the two meals were describ

Sponsors

Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: This DCE was part of the GLOBE study. The GLOBE study is a Dutch cohort study examining the determinants of socioeconomic inequalities in health, and comprises a stratified population-based sample from the southeastern region of the Netherlands. Detailed information about the objectives, design and findings of the GLOBE study are available elsewhere. A new wave of data collection was carried out, including a large-scale survey in 2011, and face-to-face interviews among a subsample of the survey participants (n=399) in 2012. At the end of this interview, a DCE was carried out.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: N/A

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Relative importance of meal attributes as follows: 1. Healthiness 2. Taste 3. Price 4. Travel time for doing groceries 5. Preparation time Outcomes were measured by means of the experiment.

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
How low and high socioeconomic groups differ in the relative importance of the following meal attributes: 1. Healthiness 2. Taste 3. Price 4. Travel time for doing groceries 5. Preparation time Outcomes were measured by means of the experiment.

Countries

Netherlands

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Mar 18, 2026