Welcome to the Fast Food Study website


This site is maintained by Emily Brindal, who is currently undertaking a PhD in Psychology.





If you would like to use the Fast Food Choices Program click here.

The Fast Food Choices Program lets you select items from McDonalds, Hungry Jacks, KFC, Domino's Pizza and Red Rooster and view the nutritional information for any products you may have consumed.

It was developed as part of an initial study for my PhD research. The information it provides was accuarte in 2005. Therefore, not all menu items may be up-to-date now. I am hoping to update the program sometime in the near future. But feel free to have a look and play around with it.


Congratulations, you now have the chance to spend 5 (or so) minutes completing the next fast food study. As always,the survey only contains data for McDonalds, Hungry Jacks, KFC, Dominos and Red Rooster. All you have to do is remember the last time you ate from one of these places and answer the questions about what you ate, who you were with and so on.

I am no longer collecting data for this study. But you can go through the survey and at the end, you can view your exclusive Fast Food Eating Profile .


Click here to access the short version of the Fast Food Survey


Disclaimer: The Fast Food Eating Profile is developed purely for fun, so please don't take it too seriously.





Thanks for visiting, if you have any questions regarding the site or want to report a problem you can send an email to Emily




Emily researching fast food in her office at CSIRO

Biography
Emily Brindal is a PhD candidate for Adelaide University based with Human Nutrition division of CSIRO. She has previously completed a Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) with the University of South Australia. She has tutored in introductory research methods and first-year psychology for UniSA and Adelaide University. She has also assisted with several other health-based research projects at CSIRO.

Her PhD is focussed on fast food behaviours and the role that social influences can have in affecting fast food consumption.

A born and bred Adelaide-girl, Emily is keen to develop her research while also teaching at the state’s universities.






News,

06-Feb-09
Hi again. A big thank you to all those people who completed the mini Fast Food Survey back in June. I ended up recruiting about 300 people in a few weeks. Truly excellent.
I have been busy busy busy writing up the results from the surveys I have completed. I promise that within the next few months I will put some of my results up. In the meantime, it's back to writing my PhD. Feel free to do the short survey and get your fast food profile, or use the Fast Food Choices Program. Just remember that the nutrition information provided is calculated according to Australian standards.


12-Jun-08
After a few technical hiccups, the new survey is up and running. Please take the time to log in and complete it. It's much shorter than the last version and you get to see what kind of fast food consumer you are... which is all a bit of fun. I'd like to thank Digital Lamb for sorting out the last few bugs in the program. And thanks to Alex for his time as always. Check out his work here.


18-Dec-07
Hello again. It has been a very long time sicne I have given an update. Well, Study 1 is officially done now. I have been overseas to present some of the results at conferences, which was great. However, I am still finailising my statistical analyses.
Thanks again to all those people that helped me by completing the survey. Thanks also to the people who helped me promote the survey... Keith Conlon from 5AA especially.
Please check back for more updates about my study. And feel free to use the Fast Food Choices Program to keep track of your fast food consumption :)




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