Lappalainen R, Saba A, Holm L, Mykkanen H, Gibney M J, Moles A
A.I. Virtanen Institute, University of Kuopio, Finland.
Eur J Clin Nutr. 1997 Jun;51 Suppl 2:S36-40.
To determine the factors which are perceived to be important barriers to healthy eating among European adults.
A cross sectional study in which quota-controlled, nationally-representative samples of approximately 1000 adults from each country completed a face-to-face interview-assisted questionnaire.
The survey was conducted between October 1995 and February 1996 in the 15 member states of the European Union.
14,331 subjects (aged 15 y upwards) completed the questionnaire. Data were weighted by population size for each country and by sex, age and regional distribution within each member state.
The study demonstrates a great variability in the perceived barriers to healthy eating between different EU countries. Lack of time was the most frequently mentioned difficulty among EU subjects for not following nutritional advice (24% of total EU sample). This barrier was frequently reported by the younger and the higher education people. Other frequently reported barriers were giving up favourite foods (23%) and willpower (18%). Thus healthy diets do not appear to be viewed as an easy or attractive alternative to current diets. There was wide geographical variation in the number of subjects mentioning price as an important barrier to healthy eating (15% in overall EU sample) ranging from less than 10% in Germany and Italy to 23% in the UK and 24% in Luxembourg.
确定欧洲成年人认为对健康饮食构成重要障碍的因素。
一项横断面研究，每个国家约1000名成年人的配额控制全国代表性样本完成了一份面对面访谈辅助问卷。
该调查于1995年10月至1996年2月在欧盟15个成员国进行。
14331名受试者（年龄15岁及以上）完成了问卷。数据按每个国家的人口规模以及每个成员国的性别、年龄和区域分布进行加权。
研究表明，不同欧盟国家对健康饮食的认知障碍存在很大差异。在欧盟受试者中，缺乏时间是不遵循营养建议最常被提及的困难（占欧盟总样本的24%）。年轻和受过高等教育的人群经常报告这一障碍。其他经常报告的障碍是放弃喜爱的食物（23%）和意志力（18%）。因此，健康饮食似乎并未被视为当前饮食的轻松或有吸引力的替代品。将价格视为健康饮食重要障碍的受试者数量存在很大的地域差异（在欧盟总样本中为15%），从德国和意大利的不到10%到英国的23%和卢森堡的24%不等。
