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Self-reported awareness of the presence of product warning messages and signs by Hispanics in San Francisco.
  • Published Date:

    1994 Mar-Apr

  • Source:
    Public Health Rep. 109(2):275-283
  • Language:
    English
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  • Alternative Title:
    Public Health Rep
  • Personal Author:
    Marín, G
  • Description:
    This study investigated the self-reported awareness of the presence of product warning messages and signs among random samples of Hispanics in San Francisco surveyed in 1990 and in 1991. The messages that were tested related to cigarettes, alcoholic beverages, and other consumer products. A random sample of 1,204 Hispanics (43.5 percent males) were interviewed by telephone in 1990. The corresponding figure for the second survey in 1991 was 1,569 Hispanics (41.1 percent males). In general, respondents reported low levels of awareness of the presence of product warning messages and signs. The exception was warning messages on cigarette packets which approximately 70 percent of the respondents reported having seen within the 12 months before the survey. There was an increase from 1990 to 1991 in the reported awareness of warning messages for wine, beer, and cigarettes. Smokers and drinkers of alcoholic beverages reported the highest levels of awareness of the relevant warning messages and signs. Length of exposure to warning messages and multiplicity of sources (for example, advertisements and products) seem to produce greater levels of awareness of the presence of product warning messages. Less acculturated, Spanish-speaking Hispanics are less likely to report being aware of the warnings, particularly those that appear only in English (for example, alcoholic beverages).
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  • Pubmed ID:
    8153279
  • Pubmed Central ID:
    PMCnull
  • Document Type:
    Journal Article
  • Funding:
    AA08545/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/United States
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    Public Health Reports
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