Contribution of home availability, parental child-feeding practices and health beliefs on children’s sweets and salty snacks consumption in Europe: Feel4Diabetes-Study

Papamichael, Maria Michelle ; Karaglani, Eva ; Karatzi, Kalliopi ; Iotova, Violeta ; Kivelä, Jemina ; Cardon, Greet ; De Vylder, Flore ; Bazdarska, Yuliya ; Dimova, Roumyana ; González-Gil, Esther (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Flores-Barrantes, Paloma (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Liatis, Stavros ; Moreno, Luis (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Makrilakis, Konstantinos ; Manios, Yannis

Resumen: Adoption of healthy dietary and snacking habits could support optimum physical and mental development in children as they define health in adulthood. This study assessed parameters associated with children’s snacking such as food home availability, parenting practices, and parents’ health beliefs. In this cross-sectional study 12 039 children, 49·4% boys 5–12 years, participating in the European Feel4Diabetes-Study were included. Children’s weekly consumption of sweets and salty snacks, home availability of snacks, food parenting practices, and health beliefs were assessed via questionnaires. Logistic regression was applied to explore associations of a) home availability of snacks, b) food parenting practices (permissiveness and rewarding with snacks) and c) parent’s opinions on deterministic health beliefs with children’s consumption of sweets and salty snacks. Results showed that home availability (sweets: ORadj: 4·76, 95 % CI: 4·32, 5·23; salty snacks: ORadj: 6·56, 95 % CI: 5·64, 7·61), allowing to consume (sweets: ORadj: 3·29, 95 % CI: 2·95, 3·67; salty snacks: ORadj: 3·41, 95 % CI: 2·98, 3·90) and rewarding with sweets/salty snacks (sweets: ORadj: 2·69, 95 % CI: 2·23, 3·24; salty snacks: ORadj: 4·34, 95 % CI: 3·57, 5·28) ‘sometimes/or less frequently’ compared to ‘always/or often’ were associated with lower weekly consumption of sweets and snacks. Parents’ disagreement compared to agreement with deterministic health beliefs and inattentive eating were associated with lower consumption of salty snacks and sweets in children. Overall, the findings of this study indicate that attempts to promote healthy snacking habits in children should aim to improve parental dietary habits, food parenting practices, health beliefs, and reducing home availability of unhealthy foods and snacks.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1017/S0007114521004190

Año: 2022

Publicado en: British journal of nutrition 128, 8 (2022), 1647-1655
ISSN: 0007-1145

Factor impacto JCR: 3.6 (2022)

Categ. JCR: NUTRITION & DIETETICS rank: 45 / 87 = 0.517 (2022) - Q3 - T2

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 6.1 - Nursing (Q1) - Medicine (Q1)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.911 - Nutrition and Dietetics (Q1) - Medicine (miscellaneous) (Q1)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/643708/EU/Developing and implementing a community-based intervention to create a more supportive social and physical environment for lifestyle changes to prevent diabetes in vulnerable families across Europe/Feel4Diabetes

Tipo y forma: Article (PostPrint)

Área (Departamento): Área Enfermería (Dpto. Fisiatría y Enfermería)