Parent/child acculturation and family dynamics: impact on Latina mothers diet

 描述（由申请人提供）：文化适应过程影响拉丁美洲人饮食摄入的机制尚不清楚。在拉丁裔家庭中，文化适应过程被发现与家庭层面的因素有关，包括日常互动和家庭功能。以比孩子慢的速度适应文化的父母可能会受到孩子在与食物相关的行为（购买食物，准备膳食和在家庭外食用的食物）方面的影响，从而增加了患者食用不良饮食的可能性（例如，水果和蔬菜含量低，脂肪和糖含量高）。父母也可能会经历与他们的文化适应的孩子的脱节，分裂，冲突或无沟通的互动，因此，改变他们的食物相关的行为，以安抚他们的孩子。本研究的发现将有助于了解文化适应和儿童如何影响母亲的健康行为。具体而言，本研究将探讨母子文化适应不一致对母亲的食物相关行为和饮食摄入的影响。一旦知道文化适应不一致和儿童是否在拉丁裔母亲的饮食行为中发挥作用，就可以制定策略来限制其对行为的负面影响。本研究将使用来自家族水平随机对照试验的现有数据和表中的原始数据 的日常日记从一个单独的样本生活在帝国县的母亲，以实现以下目标：1）探索母亲-儿童文化适应不一致，家庭功能，食物相关的行为，和饮食摄入之间的关系，在拉丁美洲的母亲; 2）检查文化适应不一致的作用对儿童的影响，他们的母亲的食物相关的行为和饮食摄入。在第一个目标下，将使用基线自我报告测量后10个月的181名拉丁裔母子二人组的次要数据的纵向分析来评估以下两个子目标：1）测试基线时的文化适应不一致对母亲10个月时的饮食摄入的影响;以及2）评估从家庭功能到食物相关行为的中介途径（即，杂货店购物，准备饭菜，和离家吃饭）之间的关系，文化适应不一致性和饮食摄入量。根据第二个目标，每日日记将收集连续五天从一个单独的样本45名母亲分层的文化适应类型不和谐的母子二人组：a）二人组谁都同化到美国文化，B）二人组谁没有同化到美国文化，和c）二人组的孩子谁已经同化到美国文化和母亲谁没有。很少有研究评估孩子对父母行为的影响。因此，这项研究将解决重要的差距，因为它将探讨文化适应和家庭层面的因素如何影响母亲的饮食摄入的可能机制。这一建议的两个目标是确定家庭层面的因素在文化适应和饮食摄入之间的关系知之甚少的作用。这些结果将提供证据的重要性，制定有针对性的方法，文化适应不和谐和和谐的家庭在饮食相关的干预措施。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The mechanisms through which the acculturation process influences dietary intake in Latinos are not well understood. Among Latino families, the acculturation process has been found to be associated with family-level factors including day-to-day interactions and family functioning. Parents who acculturate at a slower rate than their child may be influenced by their children in their food-related behaviors (food purchasing, meal preparation, and foods consumed outside of the home) in ways that increase patens' likelihood of consuming a poor diet (e.g., low in fruits and vegetables and high in fats and sugar). Parents may also experience disengaged, divided, conflicted, or uncommunicative interactions with their acculturated children, and thus, alter their food- related behaviors to appease their children. Findings from this study will inform the understanding of how acculturation and children influence mothers' health behaviors. Specifically, this study will explore the impact of mother-child acculturation discordance on mothers' food-related behaviors and dietary intake. Once it is known whether acculturation discordance and children play a role in the dietary behaviors of Latina mothers, strategies can be developed to limit its negative effects on behaviors. This study will use existing data from a family level randomized controlled trial and primary data in the form of daily diaries from a separate sample of mothers living in Imperial County to accomplish the following aims: 1) Explore the relationships between mother- child acculturation discordance, family functioning, food-related behaviors, and dietary intake among Latina mothers; and 2) Examine the role of acculturation discordance on children's influence over their mother's food- related behaviors and dietary intake. Under the first aim, the following two sub-aims will be assessed using longitudinal analysis of secondary data from 181 Latina mother-child dyads at ten months following baseline self-reported measures: 1) Test the influence of acculturation discordance at baseline on mothers' dietary intake at ten months; and 2) Assess the mediating pathway from family functioning to food-related behaviors (i.e., grocery shopping, preparing meals, and away from home eating) in the relationship between acculturation discordance and dietary intake. Under the second aim, daily diaries will be collected over five consecutive days from a separate sample of 45 mothers stratified by type of acculturation discordant mother-child dyad: a) dyads who have both assimilated to US culture, b) dyads who have not assimilated to US culture, and c) dyads with children who have assimilated to US culture and mothers who have not. Few studies assess the influence of children on their parents' behaviors. Thus, this study will address important gaps because it will explore the possible mechanisms for how acculturation and family-level factors influences dietary intake in mothers. The two aims of this proposal are expected to identify the role of family-level factors in the poorly understood relationship between acculturation and dietary intake. These results will provide evidence for the importance of developing tailored approaches for acculturation discordant and concordant families in diet-related interventions.