Parental health literacy and nutrition literacy affect child feeding practices: A cross-sectional study.
Health literacy
nutrition literacy
parental feeding practices
Journal
Nutrition and health
ISSN: 0260-1060
Titre abrégé: Nutr Health
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8306569
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Mar 2022
Mar 2022
Historique:
pubmed:
30
4
2021
medline:
30
3
2022
entrez:
29
4
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Health literacy (HL) and nutrition literacy (NL) are important issues to consider, in the provision of health care to children and the establishment of healthy eating behaviors. The study investigates the possible role of HL and NL levels of Greek parents, in parental Feeding Practices (PFP). This is a cross-sectional study which was conducted in the urban area of the Attica region, Greece. The sample consisted of 402 parents (68.4% mothers). Parents completed the Greek version of Comprehensive Parental Feeding Questionnaire, the European Health Literacy Questionnaire 47 and the Greek version of the Nutrition Literacy Scale. Sociodemographic and anthropometric characteristics were also assessed. The non-parametric tests Mann-Whitney and Kruskal Wallis, the chi-square test and linear regression models were applied. The median for HL and NL were 33.69 and 24.00, respectively. Mothers applied the "child control" practice more frequently than fathers ( Higher parental levels of HL and NL are significantly positively associated with better parental feeding practices in Greece.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND
Health literacy (HL) and nutrition literacy (NL) are important issues to consider, in the provision of health care to children and the establishment of healthy eating behaviors.
AIM
OBJECTIVE
The study investigates the possible role of HL and NL levels of Greek parents, in parental Feeding Practices (PFP).
METHODS
METHODS
This is a cross-sectional study which was conducted in the urban area of the Attica region, Greece. The sample consisted of 402 parents (68.4% mothers). Parents completed the Greek version of Comprehensive Parental Feeding Questionnaire, the European Health Literacy Questionnaire 47 and the Greek version of the Nutrition Literacy Scale. Sociodemographic and anthropometric characteristics were also assessed. The non-parametric tests Mann-Whitney and Kruskal Wallis, the chi-square test and linear regression models were applied.
RESULTS
RESULTS
The median for HL and NL were 33.69 and 24.00, respectively. Mothers applied the "child control" practice more frequently than fathers (
CONCLUSIONS
CONCLUSIONS
Higher parental levels of HL and NL are significantly positively associated with better parental feeding practices in Greece.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33913343
doi: 10.1177/02601060211001489
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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