Can food parenting practices explain the association between parental education and children's food intake? The Feel4Diabetes-study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aimed to investigate the mediating role of food parenting practices (FPP), including home availability of different types of foods and drinks, parental modelling of fruit intake, permissiveness and the use of food as a reward in the relationship between parental education and dietary intake in European children.

Design

Single mediation analyses were conducted to explore whether FPP explain associations between parents' educational level and children's dietary intake measured by a parent-reported FFQ.

Setting

Six European countries.

Participants

Parent-child dyads (n 6705, 50·7 % girls, 88·8 % mothers) from the Feel4Diabetes-study.

Results

Children aged 8·15 ± 0·96 years were included. Parental education was associated with chi

SUBMITTER: Flores-Barrantes P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9991856 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature