title: Maternal educational level and children's healthy eating behaviour: role of the home food environment (cross-sectional results from the INPACT study).
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The aims of this study are 1) to investigate the association between maternal educational level and healthy eating behaviour of 11-year-old children (fruit, vegetables and breakfast consumption), and 2) to examine whether factors in the home food environment (parental intake of fruit, vegetables and breakfast; rules about fruit and vegetables and home availability of fruit and vegetables) mediate these associations.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data were obtained from the Dutch INPACT study. In total, 1318 parent-child dyads were included in this study. Multilevel regression models were used to investigate whether factors of the home food environment mediated the association between maternal educational level and children's healthy eating behaviour.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Children of mothers with a high educational level consumed more pieces of fruit per day (B = 0.13, 95% CI: 0.04-0.22), more grams of vegetables per day (B = 23.81, 95% CI = 14.93-32.69) and were more likely to have breakfast on a daily basis (OR = 2.97, 95% CI: 1.38-6.39) than children of mothers with a low educational level. Home availability, food consumption rules and parental consumption mediated the association between maternal education level and children's fruit and vegetable consumption. Parental breakfast consumption mediated the association between maternal education level and children's breakfast consumption.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Factors in the home food environment play an important role in the explanation of socio-economic disparities in children's healthy eating behaviour and may be promising targets for interventions.
authors.forename: Wilke Jc
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: van Ansem
authors.forename: Carola Tm
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Schrijvers
authors.forename: Gerda
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rodenburg
authors.forename: Dike
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: van de Mheen
mesh_terms: D062408:Breakfast; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D005518:Food Preferences; D058870:Food, Organic; D005638:Fruit; D015438:Health Behavior; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D039382:Maternal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014675:Vegetables