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Parental nutrition knowledge and attitudes as predictors of 5-6-year-old children's healthy food knowledge

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dc.contributor.authorZarnowiecki, D.
dc.contributor.authorSinn, N.
dc.contributor.authorPetkov, J.
dc.contributor.authorDollman, J.
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractObjective: 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.
dc.identifier.citationPublic Health Nutrition, 2012; 15(7):1284-1290
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S1368980011003259
dc.identifier.issn1368-9800
dc.identifier.issn1475-2727
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.8/124014
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCambridge University Press
dc.relation.fundingUniversity of South Australia
dc.rightsCopyright 2011 The Authors
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980011003259
dc.subjectnutrition knowledge
dc.subjectyoung children
dc.subjectparents
dc.subjectsocio-economic status
dc.titleParental nutrition knowledge and attitudes as predictors of 5-6-year-old children's healthy food knowledge
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished
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