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Understanding and Changing Food Consumption Behavior Among Children: The Comprehensive Child Consumption Patterns
Jayne K Jeffries1, Seth M Noar2, Linden Thayer3
1Department of Health Behavior, The Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA jayne.k.jeffries@gmail.com.
International Quarterly of Community Health Education
|November 1, 2015
Summary
Existing theories fail to explain children's eating behaviors. The Comprehensive Child Consumption Patterns model offers a new, multi-level approach to understand and improve child diet, addressing childhood overweight and obesity.
Area of Science:
- Childhood nutrition and obesity research
- Behavioral science and public health
Background:
- Current theories on child diet-related weight status are limited to individual-level factors.
- These models do not fully explain children's engagement in healthy eating behaviors.
- A gap exists in understanding the multifaceted influences on children's food consumption.
Purpose of the Study:
- To introduce the Comprehensive Child Consumption Patterns model.
- To address theoretical gaps in explaining child food consumption behavior.
- To provide a framework for understanding and intervening in childhood obesity.
Main Methods:
- Development of the Comprehensive Child Consumption Patterns model.
- Integration of life course trajectory, key influencers, perceived behavioral control, and self-regulation.
- Application of the socioecological model to child food consumption.
Main Results:
- The model highlights how negative influences across multiple socioecological levels contribute to caloric imbalance.
- It explains the pathways leading to child overweight and obesity.
- Identifies the need for multi-level and system-based interventions.
Conclusions:
- The Comprehensive Child Consumption Patterns model offers a holistic approach to understanding child eating behavior.
- It serves as a template for integrated interventions to improve diet.
- This model can impact life course health development and combat childhood obesity.
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