Ashleigh Haynes, Zenobia Talati, Danica Keric, Julia Stafford, Gael Myers, Jane Martin, Melanie Wakefield, Helen Dixon
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However, participants intended to consume a higher number of cans/bottles of products featuring 'natural' claims (P = .032) and of products displaying any health-oriented marketing claim in the minority of instances (19.4%) when they did not view the back label featuring nutrition information (P = .031).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Health-oriented marketing claims commonly displayed on alcohol products lead young adults to misperceive those products as healthier on many dimensions even in the presence of information to the contrary. 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Impact of health-oriented marketing claims on young adults' alcohol product perceptions, hypothetical consumption, and beliefs: a randomized experiment.
Aims: Health-oriented marketing claims commonly and increasingly feature on alcohol products and target younger consumers. This study aimed to test effects of such claims on young adults' alcohol product perceptions and intended consumption.
Methods: Australian young adults aged 18-24 (N = 1009) viewed 10 alcohol products in an online experiment comprising two between-subjects conditions (no claim control, claim) and five within-subjects conditions (low sugar/carb, low calorie, natural, organic, and preservative free). Products were identical between conditions (including labelled alcohol and energy content) except for the presence or absence of claims. Participants rated their perceptions and reported their intended consumption of each product.
Results: Overall, participants perceived alcohol products displaying health-oriented marketing claims as significantly healthier, less harmful to health, lower in sugar and kilojoules, and more suitable for weight management and a healthy diet than identical products without claims (P = .005-P < .001), but claims did not affect intentions to consume products in the next fortnight. These effects were consistent across most individual claims. However, participants intended to consume a higher number of cans/bottles of products featuring 'natural' claims (P = .032) and of products displaying any health-oriented marketing claim in the minority of instances (19.4%) when they did not view the back label featuring nutrition information (P = .031).
Conclusions: Health-oriented marketing claims commonly displayed on alcohol products lead young adults to misperceive those products as healthier on many dimensions even in the presence of information to the contrary. There is a need to strengthen the regulation of alcohol labelling and marketing by prohibiting these misleading claims.
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Alcohol and Alcoholism publishes papers on the biomedical, psychological, and sociological aspects of alcoholism and alcohol research, provided that they make a new and significant contribution to knowledge in the field.
Papers include new results obtained experimentally, descriptions of new experimental (including clinical) methods of importance to the field of alcohol research and treatment, or new interpretations of existing results.
Theoretical contributions are considered equally with papers dealing with experimental work provided that such theoretical contributions are not of a largely speculative or philosophical nature.