“QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF NUTRITION INFORMATION PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE SURROUNDING OF FOUR HOSPITALS IN LIMA, PERU“
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2022Author(s)
Del Carpio Carhuas, T.
Torres Najar, M.
Dextre, M.
Rodríguez Huamán, Y.
Rodríguez Huamán, Y.
Lozada-Urban, M.
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“There is a growing demand from the general public regarding nutrition topics that has
prompted social media such as magazines, newspapers, television, radio and the
internet to include more nutritional content. The purpose of this study was to assess the
quality of nutrition information published by health weeklies in the surroundings of
four hospitals in Lima, Peru. A cross- sectional study was conducted using a mixed
methodological design involving both quantitative and qualitative analyses. Thirtyseven hard copies of 4 health weeklies were purchased over the 10- week study period.
Bivariate Logistic Regression was performed to examine all available journal
characteristics associated with the quality of provided information. Logistic Regression
Models were estimated for the independent variables that showed statistical
significance in the bivariate analysis. Weekly publications with the highest percentage
of pages dedicated to nutrition were “My Health” (41.67%), “Natural Health” (48.6%)
and those with the lowest percentage were “Sun, medicine and beauty” (19.37%) and
“Health, Money and Love” (18.34%). Collected publications included 185 articles that
were classified into two groups regarding the validity of the nutrition information
presented: supported 50.3% (93/185) and unsupported 49.7% (92/185). Statistical
analysis for quality estimated that the “name of weekly” had a p value=0.000, the
“topic” had a p value=0.035, and the “objective, source description, quarter of
publications” had a p value >0.05. Multivariate logistic regression reports that only the
variable “name of the weekly” had statistical significance with p values less than 0.05.
The percentage of nutrition information suggests that editors may not be applying
journalistic principles and shows the importance of interdisciplinary work, between
nutritionists and health journalists, to improve health status of the general population.
In the case of weekly health publications, editors responsible for this type of written
press could benefit from including nutritionists in charge of providing nutritional
information.
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