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Examining multiple parenting behaviors on young children’s dietary fat consumption
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2012 Jul-Aug
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Source: J Nutr Educ Behav. 2011; 44(4):302-309
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Alternative Title:J Nutr Educ Behav
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Description:Objective
To understand the association between parenting and children’s dietary fat consumption, this study tested a comprehensive model of parenting that included: parent household rules, parent modeling of rules, parent mediated behaviors, and parent support.
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Cross-sectional.
Setting
Baseline data from the MOVE/me Muevo project, a recreation site-based obesity prevention and control intervention trial.
Participants
Five hundred and forty-one parents of children between the ages of five and eight years old and living in San Diego County.
Main Outcome Measure(s)
Children’s fat consumption based on parent-report of a short food frequency questionnaire.
Analysis
A hierarchical linear regression was conducted. In exploratory analyses, a step-wise backward elimination approach was used.
Results
Children’s fat consumption was positively associated with parent household rules (P<.01), and negatively associated with parent modeling of rules (P<.01).
Conclusions and Implications
Controlling parenting behaviors such as rule setting is associated with more frequent fat consumption, whereas role modeling healthy behaviors is associated with less frequent fat consumption. Changing parenting behaviors with regards to how they feed their children are logical avenues for improving eating behaviors. (177)
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Pubmed ID:22591580
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Pubmed Central ID:PMC3383891
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