Associations between physical home environmental factors and vegetable consumption among Norwegian 3–5-year-olds: the BRA-study

Kristiansen, Anne Lene; Bjelland, Mona; Himberg-Sundet, Anne; Lien, Nanna; Andersen, Lene Frost

doi:10.1017/s1368980016003396

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“…Reviews primarily including school aged-children show that home availability and accessibility are strong positive physical factors associated with fruit and vegetable consumption (Blanchette & Brug, 2005;Cook, O'Reilly, DeRosa, Rohrbach, & Spruijt-Metz, 2015;Krolner et al, 2011;Pearson, Biddle, & Gorely, 2009;Rasmussen et al, 2006;van der Horst et al, 2007). This is also supported by findings from our study among Norwegian 3-5 year olds, where home availability and accessibility are positively associated with vegetable consumption (Kristiansen, Bjelland, Himberg-Sundet, Lien, & Andersen, 2017). One area within the sociocultural home environment of young children that has received a lot of attention lately is parental feeding practices.…”

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“…The design of the study is similar to that presented earlier (Kristiansen et al, 2017). In brief, data about the child and the home environment were collected in three steps at baseline (Figure 1):…”

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“…The questionnaire had been tested in a pilot study with 10 mothers and then revised, for more information see Kristiansen et al (Kristiansen et al, 2017). The final questionnaire included 53 questions, divided in two parts.…”

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“…The second part of the questionnaire aimed to measure potential factors within the home environment assumed to be related to vegetable intake. Item pools related to the physical home environment have been published elsewhere (Kristiansen et al, 2017). In the present paper, only item pools related to the sociocultural home environment, i.e.…”

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The home environment is the first environment to shape childhood dietary habits and food preferences, hence greater understanding of home environmental factors associated with vegetable consumption among young children is needed. The objective has been to examine questionnaire items developed to measure the sociocultural home environment of children focusing on vegetables and to assess the psychometric properties of the resulting factors. Further, to explore associations between the environmental factors and vegetable consumption among Norwegian 3-5 year olds. Parents (n 633) were invited to participate and filled in a questionnaire assessing the child's vegetable intake and factors potentially influencing this, along with a 24-h recall of their child's fruit and vegetable intake. Children's fruit and vegetable intakes at two meals in one day in the kindergarten were observed by researchers. Principal components analysis was used to examine items assessing the sociocultural home environment. Encouragement items resulted in factors labelled "reactive encouragement", "child involvement" and "reward". Modelling items resulted in the factors labelled "active role model" and "practical role model". Items assessing negative parental attitudes resulted in the factor labelled "negative parental attitudes" and items assessing family pressure/demand resulted in the factor labelled "family demand". The psychometric properties of the factors were for most satisfactory. Linear regression of the associations between vegetable intake and the factors showed, as expected, generally positive associations with "child involvement", "practical role model" and "family demand", and negative associations with "negative parental attitudes" and "reward". Unexpectedly, "reactive encouragement" was negatively associated with vegetable consumption. In conclusion, associations between sociocultural home environmental factors and children's vegetable consumption showed both expected and unexpected associations some of which differed by maternal education - pointing to a need for further comparable studies.

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“…Focusing on children is important because establishing healthy eating behaviors at any child age tracks into adulthood [4]. A determinant of child FV consumption is home availability [5], i.e., having the item in the home (e.g., carrots in the refrigerator) [6]. …”

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Parents’ Qualitative Perspectives on Child Asking for Fruit and Vegetables

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Children can influence the foods available at home, but some ways of approaching a parent may be better than others; and the best way may vary by type of parent. This study explored how parents with different parenting styles would best receive their 10 to 14 years old child asking for fruits and vegetables (FV). An online parenting style questionnaire was completed and follow-up qualitative telephone interviews assessed home food rules, child influence on home food availability, parents’ preferences for being asked for food, and common barriers and reactions to their child’s FV requests. Parents (n = 73) with a 10 to 14 years old child were grouped into authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, or uninvolved parenting style categories based on responses to questionnaires, and interviewed. Almost no differences in responses were detected by parenting style or ethnicity. Parents reported their children had a voice in what foods were purchased and available at home and were receptive to their child’s asking for FV. The most important child asking characteristic was politeness, especially among authoritarian parents. Other important factors were asking in person, helping in the grocery store, writing requests on the grocery shopping list, and showing information they saw in the media. The barrier raising the most concern was FV cost, but FV quality and safety outside the home environment were also considerations.

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Healthy eating interventions delivered in early childhood education and care settings for improving the diet of children aged six months to six years

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Associations between physical home environmental factors and vegetable consumption among Norwegian 3–5-year-olds: the BRA-study

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Associations between sociocultural home environmental factors and vegetable consumption among Norwegian 3–5-year olds: BRA-study

Associations between sociocultural home environmental factors and vegetable consumption among Norwegian 3–5-year olds: BRA-study

Parents’ Qualitative Perspectives on Child Asking for Fruit and Vegetables

Healthy eating interventions delivered in early childhood education and care settings for improving the diet of children aged six months to six years

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