The impact of child care providers' feeding on children's food consumption
The impact of child care providers' feeding on children's food consumption
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DOI：
10.1097/01.dbp.0000267561.34199.a9
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发表时间：
2007-04-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Nicklas, Theresa A.
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作者：
Hughes, Sheryl O.;Patrick, Heather;Nicklas, Theresa A.
背景：在幼儿中，饮食环境是饮食行为发展的重要社会背景。在许多低收入的幼儿中，喂养的责任可能已经从家庭成员转移到儿童保育提供者身上，因为这些儿童一天的大部分时间都在儿童保育机构度过。研究方法：为了探讨喂养对低收入儿童在幼儿园的影响，观察了学前教育机构的喂养行为，并评估了食物消费。“开端”是一个为3至5岁儿童提供服务的全面儿童发展方案，之所以被选中，是因为少数民族所占比例很大，家庭收入低，而且儿童年龄大。50名儿童保育提供者（25名非洲裔美国人; 25名西班牙裔）从一个大的，城市西南部城市的开端中心随机选择观察三个进餐时间的场合和自我报告的喂养方式进行了评估。观察到的进食行为基于它们与一般养育类型学的概念相似性被分类为四种进食模式（即，独裁的，权威的，放纵的，不参与的）。食物消费的措施进行了评估，549名儿童坐在儿童保育提供者在午餐期间在开端中心。结果如下：放纵式喂食行为与儿童蔬菜、奶制品、主菜及淀粉的消费量呈正相关，而权威式喂食行为与奶制品消费量呈正相关。结论：这项研究强调了儿童保育提供者对少数民族儿童健康和不健康饮食行为发展的重要影响。干预培训的儿童保育提供者，以促进健康的饮食之间的开端儿童的影响进行了讨论。
Background: In young children, the eating environment is an important social context within which eating behaviors develop. Among many low-income young children, the responsibility for feeding may have shifted from family members to child care providers because these children spend the majority of their day in child care settings. Methods: To examine the influence of feeding among low-income children in child care settings, feeding behaviors of child care providers in Head Start were observed and food consumption was assessed. Head Start, a comprehensive child development program that serves children from ages 3 to 5, was chosen because of the large percentage of minorities, the low-income status of the families, and the age of the children. Fifty child care providers (25 African-American; 25 Hispanic) randomly selected from Head Start centers in a large, urban southwestern city were observed on three mealtime occasions and self-reported feeding styles were assessed. observed feeding behaviors were categorized into four feeding patterns based on their conceptual similarity to a general parenting typology (i.e., authoritarian, authoritative, indulgent, and uninvolved). Measures of food consumption were assessed on 549 children sitting with the child care providers during lunch at the Head Start centers. Results: indulgent feeding behaviors were positively related to children's consumption of vegetables, dairy, entree, and starch; authoritative feeding behaviors were positively related to dairy consumption. Conclusion: This research highlights the important influence that child care providers have in the development of healthy and unhealthy eating behaviors in minority children. implications for intervention training for child care providers to promote healthy eating among Head Start children are discussed.