Family members' influence on family meal vegetable choices.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Characterize the process of family vegetable selection (especially cruciferous, deep orange, and dark green leafy vegetables); demonstrate the usefulness of Exchange Theory (how family norms and experiences interact with rewards and costs) for interpreting the data.

Design

Eight focus groups, 2 with each segment (men/women vegetable likers/dislikers based on a screening form). Participants completed a vegetable intake form.

Setting

Rural Appalachian Pennsylvania.

Participants

Sixty-one low-income, married/cohabiting men (n = 28) and women (n = 33).

Analysis

Thematic analysis within Exchange Theory framework for qualitative data. Descriptive analysis, t tests and chi-square tests for quantitative data.

Results

Exchange Theory proved usefu

SUBMITTER: Wenrich TR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2902559 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature