Mass media nutrition information sources and associations with fruit and vegetable consumption among adolescents.

Objective: The objective of the present study was to examine associations between exposure to nutrition information as covered in mass media and daily fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption among adolescents. Design: Cross-sectional nutrition survey. Setting: Vocational schools in Vienna, Austria. Subjects: A sample of 2949 ethnically diverse adolescents with mean age 17.3 (SD 1.7) years. An FFQ was used to assess usual FV consumption. Data on mass media exposure and sociodemographic characteristics were collected by means of a self-administered questionnaire. Multiple logistic regression analyses were used to control for potentially confounding variables. Results: Adolescents who reported exposure to nutrition information provided by booklets, the Internet or newspaper articles were more likely to eat FV daily. For example, the OR for daily fruit consumption (ORfru) was 1.6 (P