Fruits and Vegetables at Home: Child and Parent Perceptions

Robinson‐O’Brien, Ramona; Neumark‐Sztainer, Dianne; Hannan, Peter J.; Burgess-Champoux, Teri; Haines, Jess

doi:10.1016/j.jneb.2008.08.003

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“…Family food culture was associated with FV intake, consistent with the literature that shows that increased family meals, the main component of family food culture, is associated with increased FV intake in children [76–79]. This was the only significant variable in the FV intake model and also the only child-reported social support; other studies have also found that various types of parental support reported by children were more associated with children’s FV intake than the parent’s perceptions of that same support [80–82]. …”

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Association of parental social support with energy balance-related behaviors in low-income and ethnically diverse children: a cross-sectional study

Heredia

Ranjit

Warren³

et al. 2016

BMC Public Health

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BackgroundParents play an important role in providing their children with social support for healthy eating and physical activity. However, different types of social support (e.g., instrumental, emotional, modeling, rules) might have different results on children’s actual behavior. The purpose of this study was to assess the association of the different types of social support with children’s physical activity and eating behaviors, as well as to examine whether these associations differ across racial/ethnic groups.MethodsWe surveyed 1169 low-income, ethnically diverse third graders and their caregivers to assess how children’s physical activity and eating behaviors (fruit and vegetable and sugar-sweetened beverage intake) were associated with instrumental social support, emotional social support, modeling, rules and availability of certain foods in the home. We used sequential linear regression to test the association of parental social support with a child’s physical activity and eating behaviors, adjusting for covariates, and then stratified to assess the differences in this association between racial/ethnic groups.ResultsParental social support and covariates explained 9–13% of the variance in children’s energy balance-related behaviors. Family food culture was significantly associated with fruit and vegetable and sugar-sweetened beverage intake, with availability of sugar-sweetened beverages in the home also associated with sugar-sweetened beverage intake. Instrumental and emotional support for physical activity were significantly associated with the child’s physical activity. Results indicate that the association of various types of social support with children’s physical activity and eating behaviors differ across racial/ethnic groups.ConclusionsThese results provide considerations for future interventions that aim to enhance parental support to improve children’s energy balance-related behaviors.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

Association of parental social support with energy balance-related behaviors in low-income and ethnically diverse children: a cross-sectional study

Heredia

Ranjit

Warren³

et al. 2016

BMC Public Health

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“…A potential explanation for this is that family meals provide an opportunity for parents to be positive role models to their children (7) and to talk about healthy eating. In contrast to findings from other studies (8,18) we did not observe any association between FV intake and parental support, including encouragement, parents consuming FV and buying FV. This might reflect the overall parenting style and inappropriate food-related parental practices within the Cypriot context.…”

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Social, attitudinal and behavioural correlates of fruit and vegetable consumption among Cypriot adolescents

Loucaides

Jago

Theophanous

2011

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: To examine the prevalence and correlates of fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption in Cypriot adolescents. Design: A cross-sectional study. Setting: The Republic of Cyprus. Subjects: A total of 1966 adolescents with a mean age of 14?7 (SD 2?2) years from nine elementary (n 448), six middle (n 657), five high (n 475) and five technical/ vocational schools (n 386) in Cyprus. Participants completed a questionnaire assessing FV consumption using a two-item screening measure and a number of social, attitudinal and behavioural correlates of FV consumption. Results: Overall, 19?3 % of adolescents reported consuming five or more portions of FV daily, with elementary and middle school students more likely to meet recommendations (23?8 % and 24?4 %, respectively) compared with high and technical/vocational school students (14?0 % and 12?5 %, respectively). Consuming five or more portions of FV was associated with preference for FV (OR 5 2?2), family eating patterns (OR 5 1?5), friends' FV consumption (OR 5 1?2) and school support for FV consumption (OR 5 0?8). Consuming at least one portion of fruit daily was significantly associated with preference for FV (OR 5 2?0) and family eating patterns (OR 5 1?7). Consuming at least one portion of vegetables daily was associated with preference for FV (OR 5 4?2) and eating while watching television (OR 5 0?8). Conclusions: Targeting individual and family-based components may enhance the effectiveness of intervention programmes to promote FV consumption. Keywords Cyprus Adolescents Fruit VegetablesFruit and vegetable (FV) consumption is associated with a reduced risk of cancer, CVD and obesity (1) . A recent study indicated that FV consumption protects against markers of inflammation and oxidative stress from early adolescence onwards (2) . Daily intake of FV in adolescents has declined (3) and studies among children and adolescents have shown that they do not achieve the target of consuming at least 400 g or five portions of FV daily (4,5) . In the UK and Australia 44?8 % and 52?4 % of adolescents, respectively, meet the recommendation of five or more portions of FV daily (6,7) . Data from nine European countries indicate that 43?2 % of children consume fruit and 46?1 % consume vegetables every day (8) , whereas data from Mexico suggest that 61?0 % of children consume FV at least once daily (9) . Studies also indicate that girls are more likely to meet the recommendation of five or more portions of FV daily compared with boys (7,9,10) .Recently, social-ecological models have been proposed for the better understanding of factors that influence nutritional behaviour, as they focus not only on individual factors but also on social and physical environmental factors (11)(12)(13) . These multilevel models acknowledge the influence of multiple factors on nutritional behaviour; however, they refer to domains of influence rather than to specific variables (13,14) . Further, as studies have focused on physical environmental variables, more studies are needed that examine t...

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“…Parental nutritional habits have been consistently correlated with healthy dietary behaviours 44. The relationship between parental intake and child's intake can be explained through modelling, and the child's simple desire to imitate their parents 17 29 30 45. Increased availability would increase children's familiarisation with different fruits and vegetables, which is considered to be a key determinant in children's consumption 42 46 47.…”

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Family meals can help children reach their 5 A Day: a cross-sectional survey of children's dietary intake from London primary schools

Mestres

Evans

Hancock

et al. 2012

J Epidemiol Community Health

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Fruits and Vegetables at Home: Child and Parent Perceptions

Cited by 47 publications

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Association of parental social support with energy balance-related behaviors in low-income and ethnically diverse children: a cross-sectional study

Association of parental social support with energy balance-related behaviors in low-income and ethnically diverse children: a cross-sectional study

Social, attitudinal and behavioural correlates of fruit and vegetable consumption among Cypriot adolescents

Family meals can help children reach their 5 A Day: a cross-sectional survey of children's dietary intake from London primary schools

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