[Beverage consumption of community residents and influencing factors].

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the beverage consumption and affective factors about residents of Suzhou and provide basic information for nutrition improvement. METHOD: The study population included 600 residents selected from four communities using the method of stratified multistage cluster random sampling. The data on beverage consumption were collected through a questionnaire survey, and analyzed through SPSS, including statistic description and Logistic regression. RESULTS: The average water consumption of four age groups was 889 - 1450 ml. Excluding drinking water, the overall milk consumption was highest, reaching to 1372 ml per week. Apart from those, the highest consumption beverages of preschool children, children and youth, and adults were juice, carbonated beverage, and tea, respectively. Age and food preference were important factors affecting beverage consumption, other influencing factors including gender, BMI and income. CONCLUSION: The health consciousness on beverage consumption need to be further improved, and intervention measures could be carried out through changing food preference behavior, controlling weight and so on according to different age person, thus beverage consumption will be correctly conducted.