What parenting practices do US and Canadian parents use to encourage or discourage healthy eating among their 5-12 year-old children?

ABSTRACT: This study explored the parenting practices that parents of 5-12 year-old children report using to encourage or discourage children's healthy eating and examined sex differences in parent's responses. A stratified sample of 135 parents in the US and Canada completed a semi-qualitative online survey (Jan-Feb 2014) (stratified by parents' sex, income, and ethnicity of each country). Parents provided short answers to questions regarding the strategies they or other parents used to encourage or discourage their children's healthy eating (5-12 year-old). The 2389 parent responses were coded by two coders with discrepancies triangulated. Data was qualitatively reviewed and log-linear analysis assessed whether responses varied by types of encouragement (encourage, discourage), sex of parent (male

SUBMITTER: Masse LC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7689546 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature