Storybooks About Healthy Beverage Consumption: Effects in an Online Randomized Experiment With Parents.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Parents spend substantial time reading to their children, making storybooks a promising but understudied avenue for motivating parents to serve their children healthier beverages. This study examines parents' reactions to messages promoting healthy beverage consumption embedded in a children's storybook.

Methods

In 2020, a total of 2,164 demographically diverse parents of children aged 6 months to 5 years participated in an online survey. Participants were randomized to view control messages (school readiness) or 1 of 3 beverage message topics (sugary drink discouragement, water encouragement, or combined discouragement and encouragement) presented as pages from the storybook Potter the Otter. Survey items assessed parents' reactions to the messages and their pe

SUBMITTER: Grummon AH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8748291 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature