Assessing the Impact of the Public Nutrition Information Environment: Adapting the Cancer Information Overload Scale to Measure Diet Information Overload

Preventable non-communicable diseases including obesity, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes account for 70% of deaths worldwide [1]. Communication about diet and nutrition may be a useful population-level intervention approach to reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases [2 –5]. Indeed, developments in information and communication technologies in the past two decades substantially increased the amount of health information available to the general public [6]. Individuals may encounter messages from this information environment that affect their behaviors through the course of daily media consumption or they may deliberately seek health information [2,7].
Source: Patient Education and Counseling - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Source Type: research