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Table 4.3 Strategies for Ensuring a Rigorous Research Process (Based on Nicholls, 2009A) UCC Library and UCC researchers have made this item openly available. Please let us know how this has helped you. Thanks! Title Disrupting routines, facilitating control: exploring a change towards healthier food purchasing behaviour using a health app Author(s) Flaherty, Sarah Jane Publication date 2019 Original citation Flaherty, S. J. 2019. Disrupting routines, facilitating control: exploring a change towards healthier food purchasing behaviour using a health app. PhD Thesis, University College Cork. Type of publication Doctoral thesis Rights © 2019, Sarah Jane Flaherty. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Embargo information Restricted to everyone for ten years Item downloaded http://hdl.handle.net/10468/8037 from Downloaded on 2021-10-07T00:17:49Z Ollscoil na hÉireann, Corcaigh National University of Ireland, Cork Disrupting Routines, Facilitating Control: Exploring a Change Towards Healthier Food Purchasing Behaviour Using a Health App Sarah Jane Flaherty BSc MSc MPH Supervisors: Prof. Mary McCarthy Department of Management and Marketing University College Cork Dr. Alan Collins Department of Food Business and Development University College Cork Prof. Fionnuala McAuliffe UCD Perinatal Research Centre University College Dublin Head of School: Prof. Ivan Perry A thesis submitted to the National University of Ireland, Cork for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the School of Public Health May 2019 Table of Contents Declaration ............................................................................................................... x Research Dissemination .......................................................................................... xi Acknowledgements ............................................................................................... xiv List of Figures ....................................................................................................... xvi List of Tables ........................................................................................................ xvii List of Abbreviations .......................................................................................... xviii Abstract ................................................................................................................. xix Chapter 1 Introduction ................................................................................................. 1 1.1 Providing the Context: Dietary Patterns and Disease ........................................ 2 1.2 Healthy Food Purchasing Behaviour as a Means of Diet Improvement ............ 4 1.3 Thesis Aim ......................................................................................................... 6 1.4 Thesis Overview ................................................................................................. 8 1.5 Summary .......................................................................................................... 10 Chapter 2 Literature Review ...................................................................................... 11 2.1 Introduction ...................................................................................................... 12 2.2 Food purchasing behaviour and dietary intake ................................................. 12 2.3 Determinants of Food Purchasing Behaviour .................................................. 13 2.3.1 Personal Factors ......................................................................................... 16 2.3.2 Social and Community Network ............................................................... 22 2.3.3 Retail Environment .................................................................................... 24 2.3.4 Macro-Level Environment ......................................................................... 30 2.3.5 Determinants of Food Purchasing Behaviour Summary ........................... 31 2.4 Food Purchasing Process .................................................................................. 32 2.4.1 Heuristics ................................................................................................... 34 2.4.2 Routines ..................................................................................................... 36 ii 2.4.3 Habits ......................................................................................................... 37 2.4.4 Reflective and Automatic Cognitive Systems ........................................... 39 2.4.5 Food Purchasing Process Summary ........................................................... 41 2.5 Behaviour Change ............................................................................................ 41 2.5.1 Nutrition Education.................................................................................... 44 2.5.2 Changing the Context ................................................................................ 45 2.5.3 Changing the Individual Response ............................................................ 46 2.5.4 Changing the Outcome .............................................................................. 50 2.5.5 Challenges for Behaviour Change ............................................................. 51 2.5.6 Behaviour Change Summary ..................................................................... 55 2.6 Mobile Apps as a Potential Behaviour Change Tool ....................................... 56 2.6.1 Mobile Apps and Food Purchasing Behaviour .......................................... 57 2.6.2 Potential Challenges and Considerations ................................................... 59 2.6.3 Mobile App Summary ............................................................................... 60 2.7 Conclusions ...................................................................................................... 61 Chapter 3 Exploring Individual-Level Determinants of a Healthy Eating Habit ...... 63 3.1 Background – Setting the Context .................................................................... 64 3.2 Introduction ...................................................................................................... 65 3.3 Hypotheses ....................................................................................................... 66 3.3.1 Health Conscious Identity .......................................................................... 67 3.3.2 Human Capital Resources .......................................................................... 68 3.3.3 Self-Control ............................................................................................... 68 3.3.4 Personal Goals and Mediation through Self-Control ................................. 69 3.4 Methods ............................................................................................................ 73 3.4.1 Sample ....................................................................................................... 73 3.4.2 Measurement Model .................................................................................. 75 iii 3.5 Results .............................................................................................................. 78 3.6 Discussion ........................................................................................................ 83 3.7 Limitations ........................................................................................................ 85 3.8 Theoretical Implications ................................................................................... 86 3.9 Practical Implications ....................................................................................... 87 3.10 Conclusions .................................................................................................... 89 Chapter 4 Methods ..................................................................................................... 90 4.1 Overview .......................................................................................................... 91 4.2 Introduction and Research Objectives .............................................................. 91 4.3 Research Philosophy ........................................................................................ 95 4.4 Population of Interest ....................................................................................... 99 4.5 Research Design ............................................................................................. 102 4.6 Statement of Reflexivity ................................................................................. 106 4.7 Ensuring a Rigorous Research Process .......................................................... 108 4.8 Methods Summary ......................................................................................... 115 Chapter 5 Content Analysis of Existing Health Apps .............................................. 116 5.1 Background – Setting the Context .................................................................. 117 5.2 Introduction .................................................................................................... 118 5.3 Methods .......................................................................................................... 121 5.3.1 Study Design ............................................................................................ 122 5.3.2 Sample ..................................................................................................... 122 5.3.3 Assessment
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