Longitudinal Associations between Food Parenting Practices and Dietary Intake in preschool Children: The ToyBox Study

TY - JOUR

T1 - Longitudinal Associations between Food Parenting Practices and Dietary Intake in preschool Children: The ToyBox Study

AU - Flores-Barrantes, Paloma

AU - De Miguel-Etayo, Pilar

AU - Iglesia, Iris

AU - ChinAPaw, Mai JM

AU - Cardon, Greet

AU - De Craemer, Marieke

AU - Iotova, Violeta

AU - Usheva, Natalya

AU - Kułaga, Zbigniew

AU - Kotowska, Aneta

AU - Koletzko, Berthold

AU - Birnbaum, Julia

AU - Manios, Yannis

AU - Androutsos, Odysseas

AU - Moreno, Luis A.

AU - Gibson, E. Leigh

PY - 2024/5/23

Y1 - 2024/5/23

N2 - Introduction Food Parenting Practices (FPPs) include the practices parents use in the act of feeding their children, which may further influence their health. Objectives To assess associations between changes in FPPs (permissiveness, food availability, guided choices, water encouragement, rules and limits and the use of food as reward) over 1 year and dietary intake (water, energy-dense/nutrient-poor and nutrient-dense foods) at follow-up in 4- to 6-year-old preschool-aged children. Methods Longitudinal data from the control group of the ToyBox study, a cluster-randomized controlled intervention study, was used (NCT02116296). Multilevel ordinal logistic regression analyses including FPP as the independent variables and dietary intake as outcome. Results Nine hundred sixty-four parent-child dyads (50.5% boys and 95.0% mothers) were included. Limited changes on the use of FPPs were observed over time. Nevertheless, in boys, often having F&V at home was associated with higher F&V consumption (OR = 6.92 [1.58; 30.38]), and increasing home availability of F&V was directly associated with higher water consumption (OR = 7.62 [1.63; 35.62]). Also, not having sweets or salty snacks available at home was associated with lower consumption of desserts (OR = 4.34 [1.75; 10.75]). In girls, having F&V availability was associated with higher F&V consumption (OR = 6.72 [1.52; 29.70]) and lower salty snack consumption (OR = 3.26 [1.50; 7.10]) and never having soft drinks at home was associated with lower consumption of sweets (OR = 7.89 [6.32; 9.86]). Also, never being permissive about soft drink consumption was associated with lower soft drink consumption (OR = 4.09 [2.44; 6.85]). Conclusion Using favorable FPPs and avoiding the negative ones is prospectively associated with healthier dietary intake, especially of F&V, and less intake of soft drinks, desserts, and salty snacks.© 2024, Elsevier. The attached document (embargoed until 06/04/2025) is an author produced version of a paper published in Nutrition uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at the link. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it. 

AB - Introduction Food Parenting Practices (FPPs) include the practices parents use in the act of feeding their children, which may further influence their health. Objectives To assess associations between changes in FPPs (permissiveness, food availability, guided choices, water encouragement, rules and limits and the use of food as reward) over 1 year and dietary intake (water, energy-dense/nutrient-poor and nutrient-dense foods) at follow-up in 4- to 6-year-old preschool-aged children. Methods Longitudinal data from the control group of the ToyBox study, a cluster-randomized controlled intervention study, was used (NCT02116296). Multilevel ordinal logistic regression analyses including FPP as the independent variables and dietary intake as outcome. Results Nine hundred sixty-four parent-child dyads (50.5% boys and 95.0% mothers) were included. Limited changes on the use of FPPs were observed over time. Nevertheless, in boys, often having F&V at home was associated with higher F&V consumption (OR = 6.92 [1.58; 30.38]), and increasing home availability of F&V was directly associated with higher water consumption (OR = 7.62 [1.63; 35.62]). Also, not having sweets or salty snacks available at home was associated with lower consumption of desserts (OR = 4.34 [1.75; 10.75]). In girls, having F&V availability was associated with higher F&V consumption (OR = 6.72 [1.52; 29.70]) and lower salty snack consumption (OR = 3.26 [1.50; 7.10]) and never having soft drinks at home was associated with lower consumption of sweets (OR = 7.89 [6.32; 9.86]). Also, never being permissive about soft drink consumption was associated with lower soft drink consumption (OR = 4.09 [2.44; 6.85]). Conclusion Using favorable FPPs and avoiding the negative ones is prospectively associated with healthier dietary intake, especially of F&V, and less intake of soft drinks, desserts, and salty snacks.© 2024, Elsevier. The attached document (embargoed until 06/04/2025) is an author produced version of a paper published in Nutrition uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at the link. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it. 

KW - Longitudinal

KW - home food availability

KW - guided choices

KW - permissiveness

KW - mealtime screen use

KW - food as reward

KW - European children

KW - parenting

M3 - Article

SN - 0899-9007

VL - 124

SP - 112454

JO - Nutrition

JF - Nutrition

M1 - 112454

ER -