Dietary patterns and their associations with home food availability among Finnish pre-school children: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To study the associations between home food availability and dietary patterns among pre-school children.

Design

Cross-sectional study in which parents of the participating children filled in an FFQ and reported how often they had certain foods in their homes. We derived dietary pattern scores using principal component analysis, and composite scores describing the availability of fruits and vegetables as well as sugar-enriched foods in the home were created for each participant. We used multilevel models to investigate the associations between availability and dietary pattern scores.

Setting

The DAGIS study, Finland.

Subjects

The participants were 864 Finnish 3-6-year-old children recruited from sixty-six pre-schools. The analyses included 711 children

SUBMITTER: Vepsalainen H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10261520 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature