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Practical Nutrition Knowledge Mediates the Relationship Between Sociodemographic Characteristics and Diet Quality in Adults: A Cross-Sectional Analysis

Posted on 2019-10-04 - 12:08
Purpose:

To investigate the direct and indirect effects of sociodemographic/health factors on diet quality through practical nutrition knowledge (PNK) about how to compose a balanced meal.

Design:

A cross-sectional study using data from an online survey of the 10 000 Steps cohort (data collected November-December 2016).

Setting:

Australia.

Participants:

Adults (n = 8161). Response rate was 16.7%.

Measures:

Self-reported lifestyle, health, and sociodemographic characteristics, including diet quality and PNK.

Analysis:

The PROCESS macro for SPSS was used to conduct the mediation analyses.

Results:

Better diet quality was associated with being female, older, more highly educated, and having a lower body mass index. Mediation analysis showed that PNK significantly mediated the associations between sex (a*b = 0.54, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.39-0.70) and education (vocational education: a*b = 0.22, 95% CI = 0.12-0.35, university: a*b = 0.48, 95% CI = 0.35-0.64), and diet quality. Practical nutrition knowledge suppressed the association between age and diet quality (a*b = −0.03, 95% CI = −0.04 to −0.03).

Conclusion:

Variations in diet quality between sociodemographic groups were partially explained by differences in PNK, suggesting that focusing public health efforts on increasing this specific knowledge type might be promising.

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