title: At-home and away-from-home eating patterns influencing preadolescents' intake of calcium-rich food as perceived by Asian, Hispanic and Non-Hispanic white parents.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore at-home and away-from-home eating patterns influencing Asian, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic white preadolescents' intake of calcium-rich food from a parental perspective.
  
  
  METHODS
  Individual semistructured interviews.
  
  
  METHODS
  Home or community site.
  
  
  METHODS
  Convenience sample (n = 201) of self-reported Asian (n = 54), Hispanic (n=57), and non-Hispanic white (n = 90) parents of 10- to 13-year-old children recruited from community youth programs.
  
  
  METHODS
  Description of at-home and away-from-home family eating patterns.
  
  
  METHODS
  NVivo software to code and sort transcript segments, qualitative data analysis procedures.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Participants from all groups shared common at-home and away-from-home meal patterns. A lack of time often resulted in negative factors that impacted intake of calcium-rich food and beverages including breakfast on the run, fewer home-prepared or shared family meals, and more frequent meals eaten away from home. Asian and Hispanic parents indicated eating out less frequently than non-Hispanic white parents. Parents from all groups lacked expectations for their child to drink calcium-rich beverages with meals.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Practical strategies are needed to facilitate intake of calcium-rich food and beverages through more frequent family meals at home and parental expectations for children's intake of calcium-rich beverages with meals.
authors.affiliation: Oregon State University, Nutrition and Food Management, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-3302, USA. cluskeym@oregonstate.edu
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cluskey
authors.forename: Miriam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Edlefsen
authors.forename: Beth
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Olson
authors.forename: Marla
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Reicks
authors.forename: Garry
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Auld
authors.forename: Margaret A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Bock
authors.forename: Carol J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Boushey
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bruhn
authors.forename: Dena
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Goldberg
authors.forename: Scottie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Misner
authors.forename: Changzheng
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Sahar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zaghloul
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001213:Asian / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D001628:Beverages; D002136:Calcium, Dietary / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D002648:Child; D002664:Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D003611:Dairy Products; D004435:Eating / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006293:Health Promotion; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D012147:Restaurants; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
chemical_list: D002136:Calcium, Dietary