title: Perceptions of how parents of early adolescents will personally benefit from calcium-rich food and beverage parenting practices.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To identify and rank perceived personal benefits from parenting practices that promote intake of calcium-rich foods and beverages (CRF/B) by early adolescents.
  
  
  METHODS
  A convenience sample of parents/caregivers (n = 133) of early adolescents (10-13 years) from 6 states (CA, HI, MN, OH, OR, UT) participated in a qualitative study using a Nominal Group Technique process. Benefits identified by parents/caregivers were ranked by importance, given a score weight, and summed to create a total weighted score across states.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The top benefit from making CRF/B available was parent emotional rewards. The top benefit perceived by parents from role modeling intake of CRF/B and setting expectations for intake of CRB was child health promotion.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Child health promotion and parent emotional rewards were important perceived benefits derived from CRF/B parenting practices, and thus, should be included as the focus of education to increase the frequency of these practices.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nutrition, Dietetics & Food Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. Electronic address: rickelle_richards@byu.edu.
authors.forename: Rickelle
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Richards
authors.affiliation: Food Science and Nutrition, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
authors.forename: Marla
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Reicks
authors.affiliation: Nutrition, School of Biological and Population Health Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
authors.forename: Siew Sun
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Nutrition, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
authors.forename: Carolyn
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gunther
authors.affiliation: Nutrition, School of Biological and Population Health Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cluskey
authors.affiliation: Nutrition Care Division, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA.
authors.forename: Miriam S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Ballejos
authors.affiliation: Center for Consumer Research, Food Science and Technology, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA.
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bruhn
authors.affiliation: Department of Nutrition, Dietetics & Food Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT.
authors.forename: N Paul
authors.initials: NP
authors.lastname: Johnston
authors.affiliation: Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
authors.forename: Scottie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Misner
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI.
authors.forename: Corilee
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Watters
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D017195:Adolescent Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D002136:Calcium, Dietary / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D017028:Caregivers; D002648:Child; D002664:Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018673:Nutrition Policy; D016487:Parenting; D010290:Parents; D010349:Patient Compliance; D012201:Reward; D060685:Sense of Coherence; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D002136:Calcium, Dietary
keywords: adolescents; availability; calcium-rich foods and beverages; expectations; parents; practices; role modeling