Perceptions of Sports and Energy Drinks: Factors Associated with Adolescent Beliefs (original) (raw)

American Journal of Health Promotion

Abstract

Purpose To understand what factors are associated with adolescents’ perceived healthfulness of sports drinks (SD) and of energy drinks (ED), with a focus on health risk, athletics, and media-related variables. Design Cross-sectional survey Setting Online Subjects U.S. adolescents ages 14-18 years (n = 501) recruited from a combination of non-probability and probability-based panels. Measures Outcome variables were perceived healthfulness of SDs and of EDs. Independent variables included adolescents’ health background (oral health, diabetes risk, self-reported weight); behaviors (SD and ED consumption, athletic identity, sports participation, physical activity), and media items (media literacy, exposure to advertisements on TV, YouTube, social media). Results Regression results indicated that adolescents’ increased perception that SDs are healthy was significantly associated (P<.05 level) with casual sports participation (b=.56, se=.27), athletic identification (b=.28, se= .11), e...

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