Parent Education Key to Beating Early Childhood Obesity

Vaughn, Katie; Waldrop, Julee

doi:10.1097/01.npr.0000263086.16643.03

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“…In turn, these desirable child feeding practices and parenting style features may be partly attributable to the relatively high educational attainment and mean age of participating parents [43,45]. A further explanation could be that changing child feeding and parenting behaviours in a community level intervention, even when parents are provided with appropriate, evidence-based resources that they report using and valuing [45] requires a more targeted intervention.…”

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Child Feeding and Parenting Style Outcomes and Composite Score Measurement in the ‘Feeding Healthy Food to Kids Randomised Controlled Trial’

2016

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Child feeding practices and parenting style each have an impact on child dietary intake, but it is unclear whether they influence each other or are amenable to change. The aims of this study were to measure child feeding and parenting styles in the Feeding Healthy Food to Kids (FHFK) Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) and test a composite child feeding score and a composite parenting style score. Child feeding and parenting style data from 146 parent-child dyads (76 boys, aged 2.0–5.9 years) in the FHFK study were collected over a 12-month intervention. Parenting style was measured using parenting questions from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children and the Child Feeding Questionnaire (CFQ) was used to measure child feeding practices. Data for both measures were collected at baseline, 3 and 12 months and then modelled to develop a composite child feeding score and a parenting score. Multivariate mixed effects linear regression was used to measure associations between variables over time. All child feeding domains from the CFQ were consistent between baseline and 12 months (p < 0.001), except for monitoring (0.12, p = 0.44). All parenting style domain scores were consistent over 12 months (p < 0.001), except for overprotection (0.22, p = 0.16). A significant correlation (r = 0.42, p < 0.0001) existed between child feeding score and parenting style score within the FHFK RCT. In conclusion, composite scores have potential applications in the analysis of relationships between child feeding and dietary or anthropometric data in intervention studies aimed at improving child feeding or parenting style. These applications have the potential to make a substantial contribution to the understanding of child feeding practices and parenting style, in relation to each other and to dietary intake and health outcomes amongst pre-school aged children.

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“…The correlation values for the CFS at 3 and 12 months (0.56 and 0.47) and PSS (0.45 and 0.22) were high relative to those between individual domains and dimensions from the FHFK RCT [45]. In comparable studies, correlation values ranged from 0.15 to 0.33 [1].…”

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Child Feeding and Parenting Style Outcomes and Composite Score Measurement in the ‘Feeding Healthy Food to Kids Randomised Controlled Trial’

2016

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“…But as the literature asserts, parents who received notification letters did initiate healthy lifestyle behaviors such as promoting a balanced diet and healthier food choices, especially fruits and vegetables, encouraging physical activity, and seeking out appropriate resources and support . Vaughn and Waldrop addressed key components necessary for prevention and treatment of obesity to be successful. One of their major recommendations, which parents from this study were addressing, is the concept that this was not just “the individual child's problem,” but that it was necessary to involve all family members to be successful.…”

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Parental Perceptions of Body Mass Index Notification: A Qualitative Study

Schwartz

2015

Journal of School Health

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“…On the other hand, attitude-related responses indicated parents had concerns about issues such as parental control of feeding and access to safe areas for physical activity. As noted by Vaughn and Waldrop (14) , parents play a key role in establishing children's habits in early childhood. Responses in the three areas of the BAQ-HH may inform obesity prevention efforts directed at parents.…”

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Psychometric assessment of the Behavior and Attitudes Questionnaire for Healthy Habits: measuring parents’ views on food and physical activity

Henry

Smith

Ahmad

2013

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: To assess parents' perspectives of their home environments to establish the validity of scores from the Behavior and Attitudes Questionnaire for Healthy Habits (BAQ-HH). Design: In the present descriptive study, we surveyed a cross-sectional sample of parents of pre-school children. Questionnaire items developed in an iterative process with community-based programming addressed parents' knowledge/ awareness, attitudes/concerns and behaviours about healthy foods and physical activity habits with 6-point rating scales. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used to psychometrically evaluate scores from the scales. Setting: English and Spanish versions of the BAQ-HH were administered at parent-teacher conferences for pre-school children at ten Head Start centres across a five-county agency in autumn 2010. Subjects: From 672 families with pre-school children, 532 parents provided responses to the BAQ-HH (79 % response rate). The majority was female (83 %), Hispanic (66 %) or white (16 %), and ages ranged from 20 to 39 years (85 %). Results: Exploratory and confirmatory analyses revealed a knowledge scale (seven items), an attitude scale (four items) and three behaviour subscales (three items each). Correlations were identified between parents' perceptions of home activities and reports of children's habits. Differences were identified by gender and ethnicity groupings. Conclusions: As a first step in psychometric testing, the dimensionality of each of the three scales (Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviours) was identified and scale scores were related to other indicators of child behaviours and parents' demographic characteristics. This questionnaire offers a method to measure parents' views to inform planning and monitoring of obesity-prevention education programmes.

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Parent Education Key to Beating Early Childhood Obesity

Cited by 14 publications

References 15 publications

Child Feeding and Parenting Style Outcomes and Composite Score Measurement in the ‘Feeding Healthy Food to Kids Randomised Controlled Trial’

Child Feeding and Parenting Style Outcomes and Composite Score Measurement in the ‘Feeding Healthy Food to Kids Randomised Controlled Trial’

Parental Perceptions of Body Mass Index Notification: A Qualitative Study

Psychometric assessment of the Behavior and Attitudes Questionnaire for Healthy Habits: measuring parents’ views on food and physical activity

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