Knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of Greek adults towards salt consumption: a Hellenic Food Authority project.

Objective To investigate the knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of Greek adults towards salt as well as their differences with respect to gender, age and level of education. Design Cross-sectional, observational survey. Setting Voluntary participation to a telephone interview, using a seventeen-item questionnaire. Subjects Greek adults aged over 25 years ( n 3609), nationally representative according to age, gender and geographical distribution of the Greek population, were interviewed. Results More women of all age groups compared with men reported adding salt during cooking ( P P P P = 0·002, P = 0·001, P P = 0·004, P P P P Conclusions Awareness needs to be raised regarding salt recommendations for adults and children, sources of sodium in the diet and adding less salt during cooking, as well as reading food labels. Future campaigns for salt reduction should consider gender, age and level of education differences regarding knowledge, attitudes and behaviour towards salt.