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.
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.
Cluskey
Mary
M
Oregon State University, Nutrition and Food Management, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-3302, USA. cluskeym@oregonstate.edu
Edlefsen
Miriam
M
Olson
Beth
B
Reicks
Marla
M
Auld
Garry
G
Bock
Margaret A
MA
Boushey
Carol J
CJ
Bruhn
Christine
C
Goldberg
Dena
D
Misner
Scottie
S
Wang
Changzheng
C
Zaghloul
Sahar
S
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
D002136:Calcium, Dietary