title: Associations between home- and family-related factors and fruit juice and soft drink intake among 10- to 12-year old children. The ENERGY project.
abstract: The aim of this study is to investigate associations of family-related factors with children's fruit drink/juice and soft drink consumption. A cross-sectional survey among 10- to 12-year-old children and their parents in eight European countries was conducted to gather this data. Key variables of interest were children's self-reported fruit drink/juice and soft drink intake per day (outcome) and family-related factors (based on parents' report) related to these two behaviors (modeling, automaticity, availability, monitoring, permissiveness, negotiating, communicating health beliefs, avoid negative modeling, self-efficacy, rewarding, and family consumption). 7915 Children (52% girls; mean age=11.7 ± 0.8 years) and 6512 parents (83% women; mean age=41.4 ± 5.3 years) completed the questionnaire. Multilevel regression analyses were used to examine the aforementioned associations. Three of the 11 family-related factors (modeling, availability, and family consumption) were positively associated with children's fruit drink/juice and soft drink intake. Additionally, three family-related factors (permissiveness, monitoring, and self-efficacy) were solely associated with soft drink intake and one family-related factor (communicating health beliefs) was related to fruit drink/juice intake. Future interventions targeting children's fruit drink/juice and soft drink intake should focus on the home environment, parents and their practices, especially on parents' fruit drink/juice and soft drink intake and availability of these beverages at home.
authors.affiliation: Ghent University, Watersportlaan 2, 9000 Ghent, Belgium. wendy.vanlippevelde@ugent.be
authors.forename: Wendy
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Van Lippevelde
authors.forename: Saskia J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: te Velde
authors.forename: Maïté
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Verloigne
authors.forename: Ilse
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: De Bourdeaudhuij
authors.forename: Yannis
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Manios
authors.forename: Elling
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bere
authors.forename: Nataša
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Jan
authors.forename: Juan M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Fernández-Alvira
authors.forename: Mai J M
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Chinapaw
authors.forename: Bettina
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bringolf-Isler
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kovacs
authors.forename: Johannes
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Brug
authors.forename: Lea
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Maes
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001628:Beverages; D002253:Carbonated Beverages; D002648:Child; D002755:Choice Behavior; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005060:Europe; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D005518:Food Preferences; D005638:Fruit; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D055361:Multilevel Analysis; D009765:Obesity / Q000517:prevention & control; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012931:Social Environment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires