Variables | Choice of answer | Percentage (%) |
Consumption Dietary supplements | Yes | 69.4% |
No | 30.6% | |
Frequency of consumption | Occasional | 45.5% |
Regular | 17.92% | |
Frequent | 6.08% | |
Duration of consumption | 4 years and over | 11.88% |
3 years | 4.95% | |
2 years | 7.92% | |
1 year | 26.83% | |
Don’t know how to answer | 17.82% | |
Respect of the daily dose of dietary supplements consumed | Yes | 48.4% |
No | 21% | |
Purchase recommendation | On medical prescription | 22.77% |
On the advice of a dietitian | 1.98% | |
On the advice of an athlete | 0.99% | |
On the advice of a pharmacist | 20.79% | |
On the advice of a friend or relative | 7.92% | |
Media, Advertising | 4.95% | |
Place of purchase | At a nutritionist | 1.99% |
In specialized stores | 7.94% | |
In pharmacies and drugstores | 55.5% | |
On the Internet | 3.97% | |
Reason for consumption | Fight fatigue and combat stress | 21.34% |
Balancing the diet | 10.5% | |
Maintaining health | 3.96% | |
To achieve an aesthetic goal | 6.95% | |
To build muscle mass | 4.5% | |
To fill a need related to a sports activity | 4.23% | |
Multiple reasons (maintenance of health, weight loss, beauty, disease prevention) | 7.92% | |
Type of Dietary supplement | Vitamins/Minerals/Trace elements | 40.6% |
Proteins/Amino acids | 4.5% | |
Fish oil (Omega 3) | 4% | |
DS Herbal/Herbal Extract | 4.3% | |
DS targeting a particular problem | 6% | |
Non-consumers of DS | _ | 40.6% |
Compliance with the daily dose of DS consumed | Yes | 48.4% |
No | 11% |