Eating maps: places, times, and people in eating episodes.
This project developed a method for constructing eating maps that portray places, times, and people in an individual's eating episodes. Researchers used seven consecutive days of qualitative eating recall interviews from 42 purposively sampled U.S. adults to draw a composite eating map of eating sites, meals, and partners for each person on a template showing home, work, automobile, other homes, and other places. Participants evaluated their own maps and provided feedback. The eating maps revealed diverse places, times, and partners. Eating maps offer a flexible tool for eliciting, displaying, validating, and applying information to visualize eating patterns within contexts.
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. js57@cornell.edu
Jeffery
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Sobal
Christine
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Blake
Margaret
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Jastran
Amanda
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Lynch
Carole A
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Bisogni
Carol M
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Devine
D000328:Adult; D004435:Eating; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D008875:Middle Aged; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012919:Social Behavior; D012931:Social Environment; D013997:Time Factors; D055815:Young Adult