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Changing family food and eating practices: the family food decision-making system
Ardyth M H Gillespie1, Wendy L Johnson-Askew
1Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. ahg2@cornell.edu
Background:
Food decision-making processes interact with family and community environments to shape families' thinking (i.e., their constructed reality) about food, eating, health, and well-being as discussed by Gillespie and Gillespie (J Fam Consum Sci 99(2):22-28 2007).
Purpose:
To understand the processes and impetuses for changing family food and eating routines and policies and to develop a framework for the family food decision-making system (FFDS).
Methods:
Interviews and observations with parents and change agents were used to generate grounded theory in the form of propositions which provided the basis for the FFDS framework.
Results:
The propositions elucidate the processes of and influences on family food decision-making systems. The framework illustrates the family food decision-making system and processes of changing family food and eating routines and policies.
Conclusion:
The FDMS framework begins to address the complexity of food decision-making to guide intervention planning and further research.
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