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Improved parental dietary quality is associated with children's dietary intake through the home environment
K R Flórez1, A S Richardson2, M B Ghosh-Dastidar3
1RAND Corporation Santa Monica USA.
Background:
Improving access to supermarkets has been shown to improve some dietary outcomes, yet there is little evidence for such effects on children. Relatedly, there is a dearth of research assessing the impact of a structural change (i.e. supermarket in a former food desert) on the home environment and its relationship with children's diet.
Objective:
Assess the relative impact of the home environment on children's diet after the introduction of a new supermarket in a food desert.
Methods:
Among a randomly selected cohort of households living in a food desert, parental diet was assessed before and after the opening of a full-service supermarket. The home environment and children's intake of fruits and vegetables was measured at one point - after the store's opening. Structural equation models were used to estimate the pathways between changes in parental dietary quality at follow-up and children's dietary intake through the home environment.
Results:
Parental dietary improvement after the supermarket opened was associated with having a better home environment (β = 0.45, p = 0.001) and with healthier children's dietary intake (β = 0.46, p < 0.001) through higher family nutrition and physical activity scores (β = 0.25, p = 0.02).
Conclusions:
Policy solutions designed to improve diet among low-resource communities should take into account the importance of the home environment.
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