Parental health behaviour predictors of childhood and adolescent dietary trajectories.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine which parental health behaviours early in childhood most strongly predict whole-of-childhood dietary trajectories.

Design

Population-based Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC, waves 1-6; 2004-2014). Exposures were parents' fruit/vegetable consumption, alcohol, smoking and physical activity at child age 0-1 years (B Cohort) or 4-5 years (K Cohort). Outcomes, from repeated biennial short diet diaries, were group-based trajectories of (i) dietary scores and empirically derived patterns of (ii) healthful and (iii) unhealthful foods consumed, spanning ages 2-3 to 10-11 years (B Cohort) and 4-5 to 14-15 years (K Cohort). We investigated associations of baseline parental health behaviours with child dietary trajectories using multinomial logistic

SUBMITTER: Gasser CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10260759 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature