Determinants of out-of-home food consumption: development and validation of a multidimensional scale in a Brazilian sample
Luis Felipe Dias Lopes, Daniela Pegoraro, Rayssa Cleide de Oliveira, Eduarda Grando Lopes, Rosangela Arruda Saragozo, Deoclécio Junior Cardoso da Silva · 2026
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Luis Felipe Dias Lopes and colleagues develop a scale for why people eat out in Brazil in a 2026 validation study. Eating away from home shapes diet quality, yet Brazil lacked a full validated tool covering money, behavior, and experience together. A total of 426 adults who ate out at least weekly answered an online survey. Statistical modeling checked reliability, validity, links among dimensions, and consistency across groups.
Five dimensions held up well, covering cost, convenience, habits and tastes, social and shared experience, and perceived food quality. Cost sat at the center, lifting convenience and habits while lowering social and shared experience scores. Convenience and social experience each lifted perceived quality. Scores behaved consistently across sex, marital status, and region. The authors offer the scale for research and food policy work.
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| CREATOR | Luis Felipe Dias Lopes, Daniela Pegoraro, Rayssa Cleide de Oliveira, Eduarda Grando Lopes, Rosangela Arruda Saragozo, Deoclécio Junior Cardoso da Silva |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 53832 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |