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Parental nutrition knowledge and attitudes as predictors of 5–6-year-old children's healthy food knowledge
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Zarnowiecki, Dorota Sinn, Natalie Petkov, John Dollman, James |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Description | Objective: Young children's knowledge about healthy food may influence the formation of their eating behaviours, and parents have a major influence on the development of children's knowledge in the early years.Design: We investigated the extent to which parental nutrition knowledge and attitudes around food predicted young children's knowledge of healthy foods, controlling for other influences such as socio-economic status (SES) and parent education levels in a cross-sectional research design. Children were given a healthy food knowledge activity and parents completed questionnaires.Setting: Twenty primary schools in Adelaide, Australia, stratified by SES.Subjects: We recruited 192 children aged 5–6 years and their parents.Results: Structural equation modelling showed that parent nutrition knowledge predicted children's nutrition knowledge (r= 0·30,P< 0·001) independently of attitudes, SES and education level.Conclusions: Nutrition education for parents, targeted at low-SES areas at higher risk for obesity, may contribute to the development of healthy food knowledge in young children. |
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| Ending Page | 1290 |
| Page Count | 7 |
| Starting Page | 1284 |
| ISSN | 13689800 |
| e-ISSN | 14752727 |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1368980011003259 |
| Journal | Public Health Nutrition |
| Issue Number | 7 |
| Volume Number | 15 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
| Publisher Date | 2012-07-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Public Health Nutrition Nutrition and Dietetics Nutrition Knowledge Young Children economic Status |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Nutrition and Dietetics Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health |
