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Published on: January 25, 2018
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.
Abstract:
Current theoretical models attempting to explain diet-related weight status among children center around three individual-level theories. Alone, these theories fail to explain why children are engaging or not engaging in health-promoting eating behaviors. Our Comprehensive Child Consumption Patterns model takes a comprehensive approach and was developed specifically to help explain child food consumption behavior and addresses many of the theoretical gaps found in previous models, including integration of the life course trajectory, key influencers, perceived behavioral control, and self-regulation. Comprehensive Child Consumption Patterns model highlights multiple levels of the socioecological model to explain child food consumption, illustrating how negative influence at multiple levels can lead to caloric imbalance and contribute to child overweight and obesity. Recognizing the necessity for multi-level and system-based interventions, this model serves as a template for holistic, integrated interventions to improve child eating behavior, ultimately impacting life course health development.
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