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Published on: January 25, 2018
Fruits and vegetables at home: child and parent perceptions
Ramona Robinson-O'Brien1, Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, Peter J Hannan
1Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA. RROBINSONOBRIEN@CSBSJU.EDU
Objective:
Examine child and parent perceptions of home food environment factors and associations with child fruit and vegetable (FV) intake.
Design:
Research staff administered surveys to children during after-school sessions, and parents completed surveys by mail or over the phone.
Setting:
Four urban elementary schools in St. Paul, Minnesota, serving primarily low-income populations.
Participants:
Seventy-three children (55 girls, 18 boys) and 1 parent/guardian per child participated in a theater-based intervention aimed at obesity prevention.
Main Outcome Measures:
Perceptions of home food environment factors (home FV availability, home FV accessibility; parental encouragement to eat FV; family meal frequency).
Analysis:
Descriptive statistics and paired t tests.
Results:
On average, child and parent perceptions of the home food environment were similar. When comparing child-parent dyad perceptions of home food environment, a moderate to high level of agreement (56%-86%) was found. Child report of home FV availability, home FV accessibility, parental encouragement to eat FV, and family meal frequency explained 26.7% of the variance in child FV intake, whereas parent report of these factors explained 4.9% of the variance.
Conclusions And Implications:
It is important to understand both child and parent perceptions of the home food environment when developing interventions aimed at increasing child FV intake.
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