Children’s and parents’ perceptions of the determinants of children’s fruit and vegetable intake in a low-intake population

Abstract

Objective: To study the differences between children's self-reports and parents' reports on environmental determinants of fruit and vegetable intake among 11-year-old children in the European country with the lowest reported consumption.

Association between home availability and vegetable consumption in youth: a review

“…Brug et al (15) reported on this entire study sample and this article was included (details on measures from that study were described by Wind et al (13) ). Two additional studies that reported Pro Children data used unique measures, so these were also included in the present review (16,17) . One Pro Children study met inclusion criteria but was excluded because the article did not provide statistical significance values (18) .…”

“…This is consistent with findings from a study on combined F&V intake among a sample of seventy-three parent-child dyads that demonstrated that children's perceptions of the home food environment were more predictive of F&V intake than parents' perceptions (31) . Also, the study by Kristjansdottir et al included both parent and child report of home vegetable availability, although the findings from child report were not included in the present review because analysis was done on a sub-sample of that from the Brug et al article (15,16) . In the Kristjansdottir et al sample of 963 6th grade child-parent dyads, child perception of home vegetable availability was associated with child vegetable intake, whereas parent report was not (16) .…”

“…Also, the study by Kristjansdottir et al included both parent and child report of home vegetable availability, although the findings from child report were not included in the present review because analysis was done on a sub-sample of that from the Brug et al article (15,16) . In the Kristjansdottir et al sample of 963 6th grade child-parent dyads, child perception of home vegetable availability was associated with child vegetable intake, whereas parent report was not (16) .…”

“…Six studies included both demographics and other predictor variables (such as food preferences, parenting behaviour and school food availability) in analyses. Two of these studies (33 %) found a positive association between availability and intake (21,27) and four (67 %) found no relationship (16,17,23,28) . High 50 % found positive association (n 6) 50 % found positive association (n 4) Low -40 % found positive association (n 5) Table 3 Association between parent v. child report of availability and reported outcome Parent report of availability Child report of availability 11 % found positive association (n 9) 100 % found positive association (n 6)* *Fisher's exact test P = 0·001 comparing outcome ratios with parent v. child report.…”

“…Sample sizes ranged from ninety subjects (26) to 13 305 (15) . Studies were conducted with children of various age groups, with one study targeting pre-schoolers (24) , six targeting children (15)(16)(17)22,23,25) and eight targeting adolescents (19)(20)(21)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30) .…”