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Tytuł:
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Parental intentions to implement vegetable feeding strategies at home: A cross sectional study.
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Autorzy:
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Chawner LR; School of Psychology, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. Electronic address: .
Blundell-Birtill P; School of Psychology, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK.
Hetherington MM; School of Psychology, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK.
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Źródło:
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Appetite [Appetite] 2023 Feb 01; Vol. 181, pp. 106387. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Nov 23.
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Typ publikacji:
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Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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Język:
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English
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Imprint Name(s):
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Original Publication: London, New York, Academic Press.
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MeSH Terms:
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Vegetables*
Intention*
Child ; Male ; Humans ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Fruit ; Parents ; Feeding Behavior ; Surveys and Questionnaires
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Contributed Indexing:
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Keywords: Child feeding; Food fussiness; Healthy eating; Parental beliefs; Parental intentions; Vegetables
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Entry Date(s):
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Date Created: 20221125 Date Completed: 20221227 Latest Revision: 20230214
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Update Code:
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20240104
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DOI:
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10.1016/j.appet.2022.106387
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PMID:
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36427564
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In order to increase vegetable intake by children, parents are encouraged to implement strategies that promote trying and eating vegetables at mealtimes. Qualitative studies have previously highlighted barriers parents face in implementing healthy eating practices, such as time, monetary costs and child factors (e.g. fussy eaters). This study aimed to specify the relationships between child and parent factors and their effects on parental intentions to implement vegetable feeding strategies at mealtimes. Parental intentions to implement meal service (serving larger portions, offering variety, serving vegetables first) and experiential learning (repeated exposure, games, sensory play) strategies were examined. Parents (N = 302, 73 male, Mage = 33.5) also explained reasons why certain strategies may or may not work for their child (4-7y). For both types of strategy, higher food fussiness of the child predicted higher parental intentions to implement strategies at home. However, this was competitively mediated by low beliefs that the strategy would work for their child, resulting in weaker overall positive effects on intentions. In the meal service model, parental beliefs that healthy eating is important for their child had a positive, indirect effect on higher intentions, through involved parental feeding practices. However, this was not significant in the experiential learning strategies model. Written parental responses suggest that this may be due to meal service approaches being viewed as easier to implement, with little additional effort required. Increasing parental confidence to implement strategies successfully and managing expectations around successful outcomes of strategies (e.g. tasting, eating) may be important focuses of future interventions to support parents implementing vegetable feeding strategies at mealtimes.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest None.
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