Associations between parenting styles and nutrition knowledge and 2–5-year-old children's fruit, vegetable and non-core food consumption
| Autor: | Jacqueline Peters, James Dollman, Natalie Parletta, John Petkov |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Peters, Jacqueline, Dollman, James, Petkov, John, Parletta, Natalie |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Adult
Parents Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Cross-sectional study family environment Psychological intervention Medicine (miscellaneous) nutrition knowledge Food Preferences children prevention Surveys and Questionnaires HOT TOPIC – Fruits and vegetables Vegetables Food choice Parenting styles Humans Family Parent-Child Relations Consumption (economics) Nutrition and Dietetics Parenting parenting styles Confounding Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Regression analysis Feeding Behavior Explained variation Diet Cross-Sectional Studies Child Preschool Fruit Television diet Psychology Demography |
| Zdroj: | Public Health Nutr |
| ISSN: | 1475-2727 1368-9800 |
| Popis: | ObjectiveDuring the early years, parents have a major influence on children's diets and developing food choices. We investigated parenting styles as predictors of 2–5-year-old children's diets and whether general nutrition knowledge (GNK) mediated these influences.DesignCross-sectional research. Questionnaires measured demographic and lifestyle variables, family environment, parenting styles and feeding practices, child diet and GNK. Regression models tested GNK as a mediator of relationships between parenting variables and child diet (fruit/vegetable and non-core food consumption), controlling for confounders and family environment.SettingQuestionnaires were completed by main caregivers at home.SubjectsParents of children aged 2–5 years (n269).ResultsHigher child fruit/vegetable consumption was associated with lower over-reactive parenting and restriction, higher authoritative parenting and dining together as a family; with lax parenting approaching statistical significance (P= 0·083) and 19 % of variance explained by the model. GNK was not a significant predictor. Conversely, non-core food consumption was associated with higher over-reactive and lax parenting as well as child age, increased takeaway food consumption and higher television viewing; GNK had a small effect (P= 0·043) and 28 % of variance was explained by the model. GNK was a significant mediator only for authoritative parenting on non-core food (effect = −0·005).ConclusionsThese findings highlight that young children's diets may be improved by interventions targeting a range of positive and supportive parenting practices in conjunction with nutrition knowledge education for parents of young children. Further insights will come from closer attention to the nature and role of restrictive feeding practicesv. laxness and longitudinal research. |
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