Food parenting practices for 5 to 12 year old children: a concept map analysis of parenting and nutrition experts input

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity

Research

Louise C. Mâsse¹  Andrew W. Tu²  Jerica M. Berge³  Amber Vaughn⁴  Melanie Hingle⁵  Kyung E. Rhee⁶  Allison W. Watts⁷  Barbara Fiese⁸  Stef P. J. Kremers⁹  Rebecca Golley^1,10  Mark R. Beauchamp^1,11  Helen Skouteris^1,12  Tom Baranowski^1,13  Truc Pham^1,13  Teresia M. O’Connor^1,13  Sheryl O. Hughes^1,13 

[1] BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada;Child & Family Research Institute, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada;Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minnesota, MN, USA;Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA;Department of Nutritional Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA;Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA;Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA;Family Resilience Center, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA;NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands;Sansom Institute for Health Research (PHRC), School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia;School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada;School of Psychology, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia;USDA/ARS Children’s Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, 1100 Bates St, Houston, TX, USA;

关键词: Food;    Nutrition;    Child;    Parenting;    Parenting practices;    Family;    Concept mapping;    Measurement;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12966-017-0572-1

 received in 2016-10-26, accepted in 2017-08-16,  发布年份 2017

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundParents are an important influence on children’s dietary intake and eating behaviors. However, the lack of a conceptual framework and inconsistent assessment of food parenting practices limits our understanding of which food parenting practices are most influential on children. The aim of this study was to develop a food parenting practice conceptual framework using systematic approaches of literature reviews and expert input.MethodA previously completed systematic review of food parenting practice instruments and a qualitative study of parents informed the development of a food parenting practice item bank consisting of 3632 food parenting practice items. The original item bank was further reduced to 110 key food parenting concepts using binning and winnowing techniques. A panel of 32 experts in parenting and nutrition were invited to sort the food parenting practice concepts into categories that reflected their perceptions of a food parenting practice conceptual framework. Multi-dimensional scaling produced a point map of the sorted concepts and hierarchical cluster analysis identified potential solutions. Subjective modifications were used to identify two potential solutions, with additional feedback from the expert panel requested.ResultsThe experts came from 8 countries and 25 participated in the sorting and 23 provided additional feedback. A parsimonious and a comprehensive concept map were developed based on the clustering of the food parenting practice constructs. The parsimonious concept map contained 7 constructs, while the comprehensive concept map contained 17 constructs and was informed by a previously published content map for food parenting practices. Most of the experts (52%) preferred the comprehensive concept map, while 35% preferred to present both solutions.ConclusionThe comprehensive food parenting practice conceptual map will provide the basis for developing a calibrated Item Response Modeling (IRM) item bank that can be used with computerized adaptive testing. Such an item bank will allow for more consistency in measuring food parenting practices across studies to better assess the impact of food parenting practices on child outcomes and the effect of interventions that target parents as agents of change.

【 授权许可】

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