Kathy Chapman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3863710 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathy Chapman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathy |
| FAMILY NAME | Chapman |
| SIGNATURE | CHAPMAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cancer Council NSW |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1236-9185 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Can counter-advertising protect spectators of elite sport against the influence of unhealthy food and beverage sponsorship? A naturalistic trial
Children’s Exposure to Television Food Advertising Contributes to Strong Brand Attachments
Children's exposure to unhealthy food marketing is one factor contributing to childhood obesity. The impact of marketing on children's weight likely occurs via a cascade pathway, through influences on children's food brand awareness, emotional responses, purchasing and consumption. Thus, building emotional attachments to brands is a major marketing imperative. This study explored Australian children's emotional attachments to food and drink brand…
Skin Conductance Responses Indicate Children are Physiologically Aroused by Their Favourite Branded Food and Drink Products
Children's favourite food and beverage brands use various tactics to foster positive associations and loyalty. This brand-consumer dynamic is frequently influenced by the use of implicit techniques and emotional appeals. Few studies have used physiological methods to examine the connections that brands build with children and the influence this has on their automatic responses. These techniques are potentially less prone to bias than behavioural …
How effective is food industry self-substantiation of food–health relationships underpinning health claims on food labels in Australia
Objective The Food Standards Code regulates health claims on Australian food labels. General-level health claims highlight food–health relationships, e.g. ‘contains calcium for strong bones’. Food companies making claims must notify Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) and certify that a systematic literature review (SLR) substantiating the food–health relationship has been conducted. There is no pre- or post-notification assessment of th…
The impact of unhealthy food sponsorship vs. pro-health sponsorship models on young adults’ food preferences: A randomised controlled trial
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR) registration number ACTRN12618000368235 . Retrospectively registered 12 March 2018
Monitoring the changes to the nutrient composition of fast foods following the introduction of menu labelling in New South Wales, Australia: An observational study
Objective The present study examined the energy (kilojoule) content of Australian fast-food menu items over seven years, before and after introduction of menu board labelling, to determine the impact of the introduction of the legislation. Design Analysis of the median energy contents per serving and per 100g of fast-food menu items. Change in energy content of menu items across the years surveyed and differences in energy content of standard and…
Children's self-regulation of eating provides no defense against television and online food marketing
How data science can advance mental health research
Maintenance of Lifestyle Changes at 12-month Follow-up in a Nutrition and Physical Activity Trial for Cancer Survivors
Physical activity and weight improvements were maintained over 12-months indicating the potential for a multiple health behavior intervention to help cancer survivors sustain improvements to lifestyle behaviors. Additional support is warranted to assist cancer survivors to make and maintain dietary changes
The normative power of food promotions: Australian children’s attachments to unhealthy food brands
Objective The formation of food brand associations and attachment is fundamental to brand preferences, which influence purchases and consumption. Food promotions operate through a cascade of links, from brand recognition, to affect, and on to consumption. Frequent exposures to product promotions may establish social norms for products, reinforcing brand affect. These pathways signify potential mechanisms for how children’s exposure to unhealthy f…
Variations in serving sizes of Australian snack foods and confectionery
Targeting multiple health risk behaviours among vocational education students using electronic feedback and online and telephone support: Protocol for a cluster randomised trial
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12615000105549; Registered 5/2/15
Investigating fruit and vegetable claims on Australian food packages
Objectives Fruit and vegetable claims on food packages are not regulated under Australian food standards. The present study aimed to: (i) investigate the number and healthiness of products carrying fruit and vegetable claims in Australia; and (ii) compare the nutrition composition of these products with fresh fruit and/or vegetables. Design Content analysis of fruit and vegetable claims on food packages. The Australian food standards nutrient pro…
Public support for alcohol policies associated with knowledge of cancer risk
Factors influencing the frequency of children's consumption of soft drinks
Reaching the hard-to-reach: A systematic review of strategies for improving health and medical research with socially disadvantaged groups
A mixed-method examination of food marketing directed towards children in Australian supermarkets
The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of children's food requests, and parents' experiences of food marketing directed towards children, in the supermarket environment. A mixed-method design was used. Firstly, intercept interviews were conducted with parents accompanied by a child/children on exiting supermarkets (sampled from a large regional centre in Australia). Parents were asked about the prevalence and types of food requ…
Response to: Counter-advertising to combat unhealthy food marketing will not be enough. Commentary on “Can counter-advertising reduce pre-adolescent children's susceptibility to front-of-package promo…
The effect of energy and traffic light labelling on parent and child fast food selection: A randomised controlled trial
Can front-of-pack labelling schemes guide healthier food choices? Australian shoppers’ responses to seven labelling formats
Digital Junk: Food and Beverage Marketing on Facebook
Objectives. We assessed the amount, reach, and nature of energy-dense, nutrient-poor (EDNP) food and beverage marketing on Facebook. Methods. We conducted a content analysis of the marketing techniques used by the 27 most popular food and beverage brand Facebook pages in Australia. We coded content across 19 marketing categories; data were collected from the day each page launched (mean = 3.65 years of activity per page). Results. We analyzed 13 …
Can counter-advertising reduce pre-adolescent children's susceptibility to front-of-package promotions on unhealthy foods: Experimental research
Increased exposure to community-based education and ‘below the line’ social marketing results in increased fruit and vegetable consumption
Objective To determine if localised programmes that are successful in engaging the community can add value to larger fruit and vegetable mass-media campaigns by evaluating the results of the Eat It To Beat It programme. Design The Eat It To Beat It programme is a multi-strategy intervention that uses community-based education and ‘below the line’ social marketing to increase fruit and vegetable consumption in parents. This programme was evaluated…
Views of children and parents on limiting unhealthy food, drink and alcohol sponsorship of elite and children's sports
Objective To determine parents’ and children's attitudes towards food, beverage and alcohol sponsorship of elite and children's sports and the acceptability of policies and alternative funding models to limit this sponsorship. Design Telephone surveys were conducted with parents in February–May 2011. One child from each household was invited to complete an online survey. Surveys assessed parents’ perceptions about the influence of sponsorship on …
The effects of television and Internet food advertising on parents and children
Objective The current study examined the impact of television and Internet food advertising on Australian parents and children. Design Parents and their children aged 8 to 14 years were exposed to a television advertisement, an Internet advertisement or a control picture for four commonly advertised energy-dense, nutrient-poor foods. Setting Online web panel survey, Australia. Subjects Parents ( n 1302) and their children aged 8 to 14 years ( n 1…
Television Food Advertising to Children: A Global Perspective
Objectives. We compared television food advertising to children in several countries. Methods. We undertook a collaboration among 13 research groups in Australia, Asia, Western Europe, and North and South America. Each group recorded programming for 2 weekdays and 2 weekend days between 6:00 and 22:00, for the 3 channels most watched by children, between October 2007 and March 2008. We classified food advertisements as core (nutrient dense, low i…
Digital Junk: Food and Beverage Marketing on Facebook
Objectives. We assessed the amount, reach, and nature of energy-dense, nutrient-poor (EDNP) food and beverage marketing on Facebook. Methods. We conducted a content analysis of the marketing techniques used by the 27 most popular food and beverage brand Facebook pages in Australia. We coded content across 19 marketing categories; data were collected from the day each page launched (mean = 3.65 years of activity per page). Results. We analyzed 13 …
Association between food marketing exposure and adolescents’ food choices and eating behaviors
Can front-of-pack labelling schemes guide healthier food choices? Australian shoppers’ responses to seven labelling formats
Factors influencing the frequency of children's consumption of soft drinks
Children's self-regulation of eating provides no defense against television and online food marketing
The effect of energy and traffic light labelling on parent and child fast food selection: A randomised controlled trial
Can counter-advertising reduce pre-adolescent children's susceptibility to front-of-package promotions on unhealthy foods: Experimental research
The use of negative themes in television food advertising
Fries or a fruit bag? Investigating the nutritional composition of fast food children’s meals
Can counter-advertising protect spectators of elite sport against the influence of unhealthy food and beverage sponsorship? A naturalistic trial
How data science can advance mental health research
Three hypotheses concerning young children's imitations of lexical items
Three hypotheses concerning young children's imitations of lexical items
Facilitation of early syntax through discourse structure
The effect of an adult–child discourse structure on children's production of word combinations was examined. Seventeen children at the singleword utterance level (1; 5–2; 1) served as subjects. An experimental group of six children were engaged in vertical structures over 10 sessions, while the remaining children served as a control group. Pre-tests and post-tests revealed a significant difference in the number of spontaneous and elicited multiwo…
The effect of feedback on young children's inappropriate word usage
This study compared the effects of three types of adult feedback (acceptance, correction with joint labelling, and correction with explanation) on young children's inappropriate word usage. Four children were visited in their homes twice a week, from the time they were between 1;1 and 1;3 until they were approximately 1;7. Differential feedback was applied by the experimenter whenever the children extended a term to referents that were inappropri…
Patterns of object–name extension in production
The evolution of young children's categories, as measured by category name production, was studied. The focus was on categories whose names initially were overextended. Four children (initially aged 1; 1 to 1; 3) were visited at home twice a week over a four- to six-month period, until they were approximately 1;7. The play sessions included eli-citations of the names of specially chosen objects. Results indicated that, as predicted, four sequence…
The extent and nature of food promotion directed to children in Australian supermarkets
The aim of this study was to describe the nature and amount of sales promotion use on food packaging in selected Australian supermarkets, specifically those directed at children through the use of premium offers, such as giveaways and competitions, and cartoon and movie character promotions. The study also examined the promotion of healthy versus unhealthy foods. Nine supermarkets located across the metropolitan area of Sydney, Australia were sur…
How much food advertising is there on Australian television?
The purpose of this study was to conduct a comprehensive content analysis of television food advertising and provide data on current levels of food advertising in Australia. All three commercial stations available on free-to-air Australian television were concurrently videotaped between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. on two weekdays and both weekend days in four locations across Australia to provide a total of 645 h for analysis. Each advertisement was catego…
Food references and marketing to children in Australian magazines: A content analysis
The aim of this study was to assess the content and extent of food references and marketing within popular children's magazines in Australia. Sixteen popular Australian children's magazines were selected, as determined by readership and circulation data. Back copies of each magazine were purchased for publications released between January and December 2006 (n = 76). Each magazine was assessed for food references on the basis of 23 food categories…
Internet food marketing on popular children’s websites and food product websites in Australia
Objective The aim of the present study was to describe the nature and extent of food marketing on popular children’s websites and food product websites in Australia. Methods Food product websites ( n 119) and popular children’s websites ( n 196) were selected based on website traffic data and previous research on frequently marketed food brands. Coding instruments were developed to capture food marketing techniques. All references to food on popu…
Consumer testing of the acceptability and effectiveness of front-of-pack food labelling systems for the Australian grocery market
The placement of nutrition information on the front of food packages has been proposed as a method of providing simplified and visible nutrition information. This study aimed to determine the most acceptable and effective front-of-pack food labelling system for Australian consumers. Consumers' preferences and ability to compare the healthiness of mock food products were assessed for different front-of-pack labelling systems. Four systems were tes…
Television Food Advertising to Children: A Global Perspective
Objectives. We compared television food advertising to children in several countries. Methods. We undertook a collaboration among 13 research groups in Australia, Asia, Western Europe, and North and South America. Each group recorded programming for 2 weekdays and 2 weekend days between 6:00 and 22:00, for the 3 channels most watched by children, between October 2007 and March 2008. We classified food advertisements as core (nutrient dense, low i…
Exercise and nutrition routine improving cancer health (Enrich): The protocol for a randomized efficacy trial of a nutrition and physical activity program for adult cancer survivors and carers
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Register identifier: ANZCTRN12609001086257
Parent's responses to nutrient claims and sports celebrity endorsements on energy-dense and nutrient-poor foods: An experimental study
Objective To assess parents’ responses to common, potentially misleading strategies for marketing energy-dense and nutrient-poor (EDNP) child-oriented foods. Design Between-subjects online experiment to test whether nutrient claims and sports celebrity endorsements on the front of packs of EDNP products lead parents to prefer and rate these foods more favourably. Setting Australia. Subjects A total of 1551 parents of children aged 5–12 years, who…
Fruit and vegetables should be targeted separately in health promotion programmes: Differences in consumption levels, barriers, knowledge and stages of readiness for change
Objective The aim of the present study was to investigate whether fruit and vegetables should be treated as separate groups in health promotion programmes by examining consumption levels, barriers, knowledge and the association between stage of change and potential predictors of fruit and vegetable intake. Design Computer-assisted telephone interview survey of the target population. Setting Hunter and New England regions of New South Wales, Austr…
The efficacy of a brief, peer-led nutrition education intervention in increasing fruit and vegetable consumption: A wait-list, community-based randomised controlled trial
Objective The objective of the present research was to test the efficacy of Fruit & Veg $ense sessions in increasing fruit and vegetable consumption. Design A wait-list randomised controlled trial was conducted ( n 292). Intervention participants attended a Fruit & Veg $ense session and received newsletters at weeks 2 and 5 after attending the session. All participants completed an FFQ and a questionnaire measuring knowledge, attitudes, barriers …
The use of negative themes in television food advertising
Association between food marketing exposure and adolescents’ food choices and eating behaviors
Fries or a fruit bag? Investigating the nutritional composition of fast food children’s meals
Increased exposure to community-based education and ‘below the line’ social marketing results in increased fruit and vegetable consumption
Objective To determine if localised programmes that are successful in engaging the community can add value to larger fruit and vegetable mass-media campaigns by evaluating the results of the Eat It To Beat It programme. Design The Eat It To Beat It programme is a multi-strategy intervention that uses community-based education and ‘below the line’ social marketing to increase fruit and vegetable consumption in parents. This programme was evaluated…
Views of children and parents on limiting unhealthy food, drink and alcohol sponsorship of elite and children's sports
Objective To determine parents’ and children's attitudes towards food, beverage and alcohol sponsorship of elite and children's sports and the acceptability of policies and alternative funding models to limit this sponsorship. Design Telephone surveys were conducted with parents in February–May 2011. One child from each household was invited to complete an online survey. Surveys assessed parents’ perceptions about the influence of sponsorship on …
The effects of television and Internet food advertising on parents and children
Objective The current study examined the impact of television and Internet food advertising on Australian parents and children. Design Parents and their children aged 8 to 14 years were exposed to a television advertisement, an Internet advertisement or a control picture for four commonly advertised energy-dense, nutrient-poor foods. Setting Online web panel survey, Australia. Subjects Parents ( n 1302) and their children aged 8 to 14 years ( n 1…
How well do Australian shoppers understand energy terms on food labels
Objective To investigate nutrition literacy among adult grocery buyers regarding energy-related labelling terms on food packaging. Design Qualitative interviews and quantitative surveys to determine shoppers’ understanding of energy terms (‘energy’, ‘calories’ and ‘kilojoules’) and how energy terms affect perceptions of healthiness and intentions to purchase breakfast cereals, muesli bars and frozen meals. Setting Individual in-depth interviews a…
Building the case for independent monitoring of food advertising on Australian television
Objective To provide an independent monitoring report examining the ongoing impact of Australian self-regulatory pledges on food and drink advertising to children on commercial television. Design Analysis of food advertisements across comparable sample time periods in April/May 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011. The main outcome measure comprised change in the mean rate of non-core food advertisements from 2006 to 2011. Setting Sydney free-to-air t…
Regulating health claims on food labels using nutrient profiling: What will the proposed standard mean in the Australian supermarket
Objective Proposed Australian regulation of claims on food labels includes requirements for products carrying a health claim to meet nutrient profiling criteria. This would not apply to nutrition content claims. The present study investigated the number and healthiness of products carrying claims and the impact of the proposed regulation. Design Observational survey of claims on food packages across three categories: non-alcoholic beverages, brea…
Reaching the hard-to-reach: A systematic review of strategies for improving health and medical research with socially disadvantaged groups
A mixed-method examination of food marketing directed towards children in Australian supermarkets
The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of children's food requests, and parents' experiences of food marketing directed towards children, in the supermarket environment. A mixed-method design was used. Firstly, intercept interviews were conducted with parents accompanied by a child/children on exiting supermarkets (sampled from a large regional centre in Australia). Parents were asked about the prevalence and types of food requ…
Medicine (38 works) · Psychology (29 works) · Business (28 works) · Environmental health (26 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (26 works) · Advertising (24 works) · Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling (18 works) · Marketing (13 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Political science (11 works)