Exploring knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding salt intake: A community-based cross-sectional study
Background: Reducing excessive salt consumption can help mitigate associated health risks. By integrating an understanding of the risks of excessive salt consumption and fostering a positive attitudes toward healthier dietary choices, a low-salt lifestyle can be implemented. Aim and Objectives: To d...
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| author | Deepak Sharma Seema Gupta Naveen Krishan Goel Bhavana Katariya Prabhdeep Singh Aanchal Sareen |
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Reducing excessive salt consumption can help mitigate associated health risks. By integrating an understanding of the risks of excessive salt consumption and fostering a positive attitudes toward healthier dietary choices, a low-salt lifestyle can be implemented.
Aim and Objectives:
To determine the knowledge, attitudes, and practices toward dietary salt intake and to estimate the mean salt intake among adults.
Methodology:
A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 300 study participants in Chandigarh city of North India. After obtaining informed written consent, participants were administered a structured questionnaire. In addition, a spot urine sample was collected from one-sixth of the study participants (n = 50). Data collected were analyzed using Epi Info software for Windows (CDC Atlanta).
Results:
A high proportion was aware that a high salt diet can cause serious health problems (92.3%). Mostly, the study participants (92.1%) opined that limiting the amount of salt was important for them and 84.7% thought they consumed the right amount of salt. Around two-third (72.2%) of the study participants never/rarely added salt to food at the table and 86.3% took some action to control their salt intake. Among the 50 study participants whose spot urine was tested in 42 (92%), the daily salt intake was more than the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended 5 g/day.
Conclusion:
The results of this study highlight a high level of knowledge, attitude, and practice with regard to salt intake. However, urine testing revealed that a high proportion of those tested consumed nearly double the WHO recommended threshold of 5 g of salt per day. It is therefore suggested that public health initiatives aimed at promoting recommended salt consumption levels should be further strengthened. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-4084ea8119ae4fcc9d38d0c5bebe27172025-01-07T06:22:52ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsInternational Journal of Noncommunicable Diseases2468-88272468-88352024-12-019414414910.4103/jncd.jncd_59_24Exploring knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding salt intake: A community-based cross-sectional studyDeepak SharmaSeema GuptaNaveen Krishan GoelBhavana KatariyaPrabhdeep SinghAanchal SareenBackground: Reducing excessive salt consumption can help mitigate associated health risks. By integrating an understanding of the risks of excessive salt consumption and fostering a positive attitudes toward healthier dietary choices, a low-salt lifestyle can be implemented. Aim and Objectives: To determine the knowledge, attitudes, and practices toward dietary salt intake and to estimate the mean salt intake among adults. Methodology: A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 300 study participants in Chandigarh city of North India. After obtaining informed written consent, participants were administered a structured questionnaire. In addition, a spot urine sample was collected from one-sixth of the study participants (n = 50). Data collected were analyzed using Epi Info software for Windows (CDC Atlanta). Results: A high proportion was aware that a high salt diet can cause serious health problems (92.3%). Mostly, the study participants (92.1%) opined that limiting the amount of salt was important for them and 84.7% thought they consumed the right amount of salt. Around two-third (72.2%) of the study participants never/rarely added salt to food at the table and 86.3% took some action to control their salt intake. Among the 50 study participants whose spot urine was tested in 42 (92%), the daily salt intake was more than the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended 5 g/day. Conclusion: The results of this study highlight a high level of knowledge, attitude, and practice with regard to salt intake. However, urine testing revealed that a high proportion of those tested consumed nearly double the WHO recommended threshold of 5 g of salt per day. It is therefore suggested that public health initiatives aimed at promoting recommended salt consumption levels should be further strengthened.https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/jncd.jncd_59_24attitudeknowledgemean salt intakepracticesalt |
| spellingShingle | Deepak Sharma Seema Gupta Naveen Krishan Goel Bhavana Katariya Prabhdeep Singh Aanchal Sareen Exploring knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding salt intake: A community-based cross-sectional study International Journal of Noncommunicable Diseases attitude knowledge mean salt intake practice salt |
| title | Exploring knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding salt intake: A community-based cross-sectional study |
| title_full | Exploring knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding salt intake: A community-based cross-sectional study |
| title_fullStr | Exploring knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding salt intake: A community-based cross-sectional study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding salt intake: A community-based cross-sectional study |
| title_short | Exploring knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding salt intake: A community-based cross-sectional study |
| title_sort | exploring knowledge attitudes and practices regarding salt intake a community based cross sectional study |
| topic | attitude knowledge mean salt intake practice salt |
| url | https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/jncd.jncd_59_24 |
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