Clusters in Infant Environmental Factors Influence School-Age Children's Vegetable Preferences in Japan.

ABSTRACT: It remains unclear how the various environmental factors are combined in practice to influence vegetable preferences in school-aged children. This study aimed to clarify the environmental factors during infancy and their association with vegetable preference in school-aged children. To find clusters of early childhood environmental factors, we conducted a factor analysis on 58 items related to early childhood environmental factors and a k-means cluster analysis using the factors obtained. The association of the extracted factors and clusters with vegetable preferences was assessed by multiple regression analysis. Twelve factors relating to vegetable eating, cooking and harvesting experience, and parental attitudes were extracted by factor analysis. Three clusters, "low awareness of experie

SUBMITTER: Yonezawa Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11013265 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature