Water drinking behaviour: exploring the motivations and situational contexts

没有现有的文献，提供了一个连贯的理解的动机，人们的饮水行为。水是人类健康和生存的基本营养物质，但它是一个研究不足的领域。大部分研究都集中在饮用糖和含糖饮料（SSB）或酒精的动机上。由于SSB和酒精可能对个人的身体和心理健康产生负面影响，饮酒习惯文献倾向于关注这些产品以及干预和预防其消费的方法。因此，水是健康研究中一个重要但研究不足的概念。由于缺乏先前的研究水的动机，这是适当的，采取定性的方法来进行这项研究。对定性研究在健康消费文献中的见解进行了回顾，表明了解某些食物或饮料来源的好处可以导致研究使用这些好处来告知动机。在这样做的时候，其他重要的，但不太健康为中心的动机可能会错过，由于“自上而下”的调查设计方法。本研究采用定性研究方法，从理论和生活经验两个方面探讨了人们饮水行为的动机，以及人们在记忆中对饮水的表征。我将进行半结构化访谈，在此期间，参与者将被问及有关其饮水行为的不同方面的问题。这些问题将涵盖以下主题：他们的日常饮酒习惯（不包括酒精），他们喝水的情况以及他们可以喝水但喝别的东西的情况。这项研究的目的是对大约60人进行半结构化访谈。这一先验样本量是通过评估当前研究项目时间范围内可能进行的最大访谈次数确定的。请注意，该样本量是一个近似值，因为实际样本量只能在研究过程开始后确定。当数据/专题达到饱和时（即访谈没有产生新的有意义的信息时），数据收集将停止。研究人员将在整个数据收集期间定期开会，以评估饱和度，并讨论是否需要进行更多的访谈。收集的数据将使用Braun & Clarke（2016）概述的主题分析进行分析。这种分析将通过与批判现实主义方法相一致的欲望扎根理论来进行。由于这一点，分析将主要是演绎的性质，虽然归纳编码也将发生，以允许任何偏离的情况下被考虑。一个研究人员将做最初的转录，编码和主题生成。一旦这一过程完成，两名研究人员将讨论所概述的主题的适当性，并进行任何修改。这项研究将有助于为未来关于饮水行为和促进水消费的干预措施的定量研究提供信息。

There is no existing literature that provides a cohesive understanding of the motivations that underlie people's water drinking behaviour. Water is essential nutrient for human health and survival and yet it is an understudied area. Most of the research is focused on the motivations for drinking sugar and sweetened beverages (SSB) or alcohol. Due to the possible negative physical and psychological health impacts SSB and alcohol can have on individuals, drinking habits literature tends to focus on these products and ways to intervene and prevent their consumption. Water is therefore an important but very understudied concept within health research. Due to lack of prior research on water motivation it is appropriate to take a qualitative approach to this study. A review of the insight that qualitative research has had in the healthy consumption literature illustrated that knowing the benefits of certain food or drinks sources can lead to researches using these benefits to inform motivations. In doing this, other important though less health centric motivations can be missed due to the 'top-down' approach to survey designs. By utilising a qualitative approach people's water motivation can be informed both theory and people's lived experience.This research aims to explore the motivations that underlie water drinking behaviours and how people represent drinking water within memory. I will conduct semi-structured interviews during which participants will be asked questions regarding different aspects of their water drinking behaviour. These questions will cover the following topics such as: their daily drinking habits (not including alcohol), situations in which they drink water and situations in which they could drink water but drink something else. This study will aim to conduct semi-structured interviews with approximately 60 people. This priori sample size was determined by assessing the maximum number of interviews possible within the current research project time frame. Note that this sample size is an approximation as actual sample size can only be determined once the research process has begun. Data collection will stop when data/thematic saturation is reached (i.e. the point where no new and meaningful information is being generated from interviews). Researchers will meet periodically throughout the data collection period in order to assess saturation and discuss whether more interviews need to be conducted. The data collected will be analysed using thematic analysis as outlined by Braun & Clarke (2016). This analysis will be informed by the grounded theory of desire in line with a critical realist approach. Due to this the analysis will be mainly deductive in nature, although inductive coding will also occur to allow for any deviant cases to be considered. One researcher will do the initial transcription, coding and theme generation. Once this process is complete two researchers will discuss the appropriateness of the themes outlined and any changes will be made. This research will help inform future quantitative research on water drinking behaviour and intervention efforts to promote water consumption.