Longitudinal associations between food parenting practices and dietary intake in preschool children: The ToyBox Study.
Nutrition
; 124: 112454, 2024 Aug.
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ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION:
Food Parenting Practices (FPPs) include the practices parents use in the act of feeding their children, which may further influence their health.OBJECTIVES:
To assess associations between changes in FPPs (permissiveness, food availability, guided choices, water encouragement, rules and limits and the use of food as reward) over 1 year and dietary intake (water, energy-dense/nutrient-poor and nutrient-dense foods) at follow-up in 4- to 6-year-old preschool-aged children.METHODS:
Longitudinal data from the control group of the ToyBox study, a cluster-randomized controlled intervention study, was used (NCT02116296). Multilevel ordinal logistic regression analyses including FPP as the independent variables and dietary intake as outcome.RESULTS:
Nine hundred sixty-four parent-child dyads (50.5% boys and 95.0% mothers) were included. Limited changes on the use of FPPs were observed over time. Nevertheless, in boys, often having F&V at home was associated with higher F&V consumption (OR = 6.92 [1.58; 30.38]), and increasing home availability of F&V was directly associated with higher water consumption (OR = 7.62 [1.63; 35.62]). Also, not having sweets or salty snacks available at home was associated with lower consumption of desserts (OR = 4.34 [1.75; 10.75]). In girls, having F&V availability was associated with higher F&V consumption (OR = 6.72 [1.52; 29.70]) and lower salty snack consumption (OR = 3.26 [1.50; 7.10]) and never having soft drinks at home was associated with lower consumption of sweets (OR = 7.89 [6.32; 9.86]). Also, never being permissive about soft drink consumption was associated with lower soft drink consumption (OR = 4.09 [2.44; 6.85]).CONCLUSION:
Using favorable FPPs and avoiding the negative ones is prospectively associated with healthier dietary intake, especially of F&V, and less intake of soft drinks, desserts, and salty snacks.Key words
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Parenting
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Diet
Limits:
Child
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
En
Journal:
Nutrition
Journal subject:
CIENCIAS DA NUTRICAO
Year:
2024
Document type:
Article
Country of publication:
United States