title: [Nutrition label reading and its influence factors research in five cities].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study reading status of nutrition label of residents in Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Shenzhen and Jinan, and to analyze factors associated with nutrition label reading.
  
  
  METHODS
  Two communities were chosed in each city. 200 residents in every community were surveyed by trained doctors and 1993 residents were surveryed totally. The SPSS 16.0 statistical software was used for data analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Residents reading nutrition label accounted for 40.54%. The results of multi-variate Logistic regression showed that following factors were significant associated with the effect (P < 0.05), sex, age, nutrition-related knowledge, family number, attitude to nutrition knowledge, understanding of nutrition label, health, frequency of shopping and focus on food.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The level of reading of nutrition label of the residents is low. It is necessary to implement nutrition and health education aimed at promoting residents' knowledge and reading of food nutrition labeling.
authors.affiliation: Department of Social Medicine and Health Education, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China. zengqingqi2006@126.com
authors.forename: Qingqi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zeng
authors.forename: Wangnan
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ji
authors.forename: Chun
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chang
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D002947:Cities; D005515:Food Labeling; D015438:Health Behavior; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D020377:Self Efficacy; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires