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Socioenvironmental influences on children's fruit, juice and vegetable consumption as reported by parents: reliability and validity of measures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2007

Karen Weber Cullen ,
Tom Baranowski ,
Latroy Rittenberry ,
Chris Cosart ,
Emiel Owens ,
David Hebert  and
Carl de Moor
Karen Weber Cullen*
Affiliation:
Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, 1100 Bates, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Tom Baranowski
Affiliation:
Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, 1100 Bates, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Latroy Rittenberry
Affiliation:
Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, 1100 Bates, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Chris Cosart
Affiliation:
Department of Behavioral Science, Box 243, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030-4095, USA
Emiel Owens
Affiliation:
Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, 1100 Bates, Houston, TX 77030, USA
David Hebert
Affiliation:
Quintiles Inc., PO Box 13979, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-3979, USA
Carl de Moor
Affiliation:
Department of Behavioral Science, Box 243, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030-4095, USA
*
*Corresponding author: Email kcullen@bcm.tmc.edu
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Abstract

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Objective

To pilot test theory-based questionnaires to measure socioenvironmental influences on children's fruit, juice and vegetable (FJV) consumption as reported by parents.

Design

Cross-sectional.

Setting

Parents of fourth to sixth grade students completed socioenvironmental questionnaires. The students completed food records (FRs) for 2 days in the classroom.

Subjects

Interviews were completed by 109 parents (17% African-American, 32% Hispanic-American and 51 Euro-American).

Results

Student mean daily FJV intake was 2.1 servings. Principal components analyses revealed subscales measuring positive and negative parenting practices; self-efficacy for modelling and planning/encouraging FJV consumption, and making FJV available; encouraging, consequences and discouraging food socialization practices; negative home, cost and canned/frozen food barriers; meal planning; child shopping; mother food preparation; and child lunch and dinner FJV preparation practices. Internal consistencies were adequate to high. Negative parent practices and negative home FJV barriers were significantly negatively correlated with child FJV consumption variables. Planning/encouraging self-efficacy was positively associated with fruit consumption, and child dinner FJV preparation was significantly negatively correlated with child juice consumption.

Conclusions

These questionnaires may provide important insights about the relationship between parent-reported socioenvironmental influences and children's FJV consumption. Future work should test these questionnaires with larger groups of parents and youths, with more reliable estimates of usual FJV intake, e.g. 7-day food records, to obtain a detailed understanding of how parents influence what children eat. Tests of models of relationships among these variables are warranted, but should control for possible confounding variables, e.g. socioeconomic status, gender of the child, etc

Keywords

ReliabilitySocioenvironmental influencesFruitVegetablesChildrenParents
Type
Research Article
Information
Public Health Nutrition , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , September 2000 , pp. 345 - 356
Copyright
Copyright © CABI Publishing 2000

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