Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia

Taste, Salt Consumption, and Local Explanations around Hypertension in a Rural Population in Northern Peru

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dc.contributor.author Pesantes Villa, María Amalia
dc.contributor.author Diez-Canseco Montero, Francisco
dc.contributor.author Bernabé Ortiz, Antonio
dc.contributor.author Ponce-Lucero, Vilarmina
dc.contributor.author Miranda, J. Jaime
dc.date.accessioned 2019-01-25T16:03:21Z
dc.date.available 2019-01-25T16:03:21Z
dc.date.issued 2017
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/4772
dc.description.abstract Interventions to promote behaviors to reduce sodium intake require messages tailored to local understandings of the relationship between what we eat and our health. We studied local explanations about hypertension, the relationship between local diet, salt intake, and health status, and participants' opinions about changing food habits. This study provided inputs for a social marketing campaign in Peru promoting the use of a salt substitute containing less sodium than regular salt. Qualitative methods (focus groups and in-depth interviews) were utilized with local populations, people with hypertension, and health personnel in six rural villages. Participants were 18-65 years old, 41% men. Participants established a direct relationship between emotions and hypertension, regardless of age, gender, and hypertension status. Those without hypertension established a connection between eating too much/eating fried food and health status but not between salt consumption and hypertension. Participants rejected dietary changes. Economic barriers and high appreciation of local culinary traditions were the main reasons for this. It is the conclusion of this paper that introducing and promoting salt substitutes require creative strategies that need to acknowledge local explanatory disease models such as the strong association between emotional wellbeing and hypertension, give a positive spin to changing food habits, and resist the "common sense" strategy of information provision around the causal connection between salt consumption and hypertension. en_US
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher MDPI
dc.relation.ispartofseries Nutrients
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject Adult en_US
dc.subject Aged en_US
dc.subject attitudes and practices en_US
dc.subject Diet en_US
dc.subject Feeding Behavior en_US
dc.subject Female en_US
dc.subject Focus Groups en_US
dc.subject health knowledge en_US
dc.subject Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice en_US
dc.subject Humans en_US
dc.subject hypertension en_US
dc.subject Hypertension/epidemiology/etiology en_US
dc.subject low-sodium diet en_US
dc.subject Male en_US
dc.subject Middle Aged en_US
dc.subject Peru en_US
dc.subject Peru/epidemiology en_US
dc.subject qualitative methods en_US
dc.subject Rural Population en_US
dc.subject Sodium Chloride en_US
dc.subject Sodium Chloride, Dietary/administration & dosage/adverse effects en_US
dc.subject Taste en_US
dc.subject Young Adult en_US
dc.title Taste, Salt Consumption, and Local Explanations around Hypertension in a Rural Population in Northern Peru en_US
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.3390/nu9070698
dc.subject.ocde https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#4.04.01
dc.subject.ocde https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.03.04
dc.relation.issn 2072-6643


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