Socioenvironmental influences on children's fruit, juice and vegetable consumption as reported by parents: reliability and validity of measures
| Autor: | David Hebert, Emiel Owens, Chris Cosart, Latroy Rittenberry, Karen W. Cullen, Carl de Moor, Tom Baranowski |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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Male Parents Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Cross-sectional study Medicine (miscellaneous) Pilot Projects Environment Beverages Interviews as Topic Environmental health Surveys and Questionnaires Vegetables Medicine Humans Child Socioeconomic status Consumption (economics) Nutrition and Dietetics business.industry Socialization Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Reproducibility of Results Feeding Behavior Test (assessment) Cross-Sectional Studies Fruit Pilot test Fruit juice Food preparation Female business |
| Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier Europe PubMed Central |
| ISSN: | 1368-9800 |
| Popis: | ObjectiveTo pilot test theory-based questionnaires to measure socioenvironmental influences on children's fruit, juice and vegetable (FJV) consumption as reported by parents.DesignCross-sectional.SettingParents of fourth to sixth grade students completed socioenvironmental questionnaires. The students completed food records (FRs) for 2 days in the classroom.SubjectsInterviews were completed by 109 parents (17% African-American, 32% Hispanic-American and 51 Euro-American).ResultsStudent mean daily FJV intake was 2.1 servings. Principal components analyses revealed subscales measuring positive and negative parenting practices; self-efficacy for modelling and planning/encouraging FJV consumption, and making FJV available; encouraging, consequences and discouraging food socialization practices; negative home, cost and canned/frozen food barriers; meal planning; child shopping; mother food preparation; and child lunch and dinner FJV preparation practices. Internal consistencies were adequate to high. Negative parent practices and negative home FJV barriers were significantly negatively correlated with child FJV consumption variables. Planning/encouraging self-efficacy was positively associated with fruit consumption, and child dinner FJV preparation was significantly negatively correlated with child juice consumption.ConclusionsThese questionnaires may provide important insights about the relationship between parent-reported socioenvironmental influences and children's FJV consumption. Future work should test these questionnaires with larger groups of parents and youths, with more reliable estimates of usual FJV intake, e.g. 7-day food records, to obtain a detailed understanding of how parents influence what children eat. Tests of models of relationships among these variables are warranted, but should control for possible confounding variables, e.g. socioeconomic status, gender of the child, etc |
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