Exploring feeding practices and food literacy in parents with young children from disadvantaged areas
Early childhood provides an opportunity to optimize growth and development and parents play a fundamental role in forming healthy eating habits in their children. A healthy diet im-proves quality of life and wellbeing and reduces the risk of chronic disease. The aim of this research was to explore p...
| Main Authors: | , , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
MDPI
2021
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/82727 |
| _version_ | 1848764539150008320 |
|---|---|
| author | Tartaglia, J. McIntosh, M. Jancey, Jonine Scott, Jane Begley, Andrea |
| author_facet | Tartaglia, J. McIntosh, M. Jancey, Jonine Scott, Jane Begley, Andrea |
| author_sort | Tartaglia, J. |
| building | Curtin Institutional Repository |
| collection | Online Access |
| description | Early childhood provides an opportunity to optimize growth and development and parents play a fundamental role in forming healthy eating habits in their children. A healthy diet im-proves quality of life and wellbeing and reduces the risk of chronic disease. The aim of this research was to explore parents’ experiences of feeding 0–5-year-old children and food literacy behaviors. This qualitative study employed a general inductive inquiry approach. Participants were recruited through community-based parenting organizations in disadvantaged areas. Eight focus groups were conducted with 67 parents (92.5% female) living in socially disadvantaged areas within met-ropolitan Perth of Western Australia. Ten themes emerged from the preliminary analysis and were aligned with domains of relatedness, autonomy, and competence within the self-determination the-ory. Themes included relatedness (1) feeding is emotional, (2) variations in routine and feeding structures, (3) external influences, autonomy (4) power struggles, (5) it must be quick and easy, (6) lack of strategies for feeding autonomy, competency (7) whatever works, (8) healthy is important but for some unattainable, (9) improvements in food literacy skills, and (10) conflicting information overload. This research informed the development of a food literacy program for parents. Parents faced many challenges when trying to provide healthy food. This research has shown parents would benefit from support to achieve healthy eating practices for their families. |
| first_indexed | 2025-11-14T11:20:58Z |
| format | Journal Article |
| id | curtin-20.500.11937-82727 |
| institution | Curtin University Malaysia |
| institution_category | Local University |
| language | eng |
| last_indexed | 2025-11-14T11:20:58Z |
| publishDate | 2021 |
| publisher | MDPI |
| recordtype | eprints |
| repository_type | Digital Repository |
| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-827272021-03-16T07:57:51Z Exploring feeding practices and food literacy in parents with young children from disadvantaged areas Tartaglia, J. McIntosh, M. Jancey, Jonine Scott, Jane Begley, Andrea feeding practices focus groups food literacy food parenting practices nutrition responsive feeding self-determination theory Early childhood provides an opportunity to optimize growth and development and parents play a fundamental role in forming healthy eating habits in their children. A healthy diet im-proves quality of life and wellbeing and reduces the risk of chronic disease. The aim of this research was to explore parents’ experiences of feeding 0–5-year-old children and food literacy behaviors. This qualitative study employed a general inductive inquiry approach. Participants were recruited through community-based parenting organizations in disadvantaged areas. Eight focus groups were conducted with 67 parents (92.5% female) living in socially disadvantaged areas within met-ropolitan Perth of Western Australia. Ten themes emerged from the preliminary analysis and were aligned with domains of relatedness, autonomy, and competence within the self-determination the-ory. Themes included relatedness (1) feeding is emotional, (2) variations in routine and feeding structures, (3) external influences, autonomy (4) power struggles, (5) it must be quick and easy, (6) lack of strategies for feeding autonomy, competency (7) whatever works, (8) healthy is important but for some unattainable, (9) improvements in food literacy skills, and (10) conflicting information overload. This research informed the development of a food literacy program for parents. Parents faced many challenges when trying to provide healthy food. This research has shown parents would benefit from support to achieve healthy eating practices for their families. 2021 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/82727 10.3390/ijerph18041496 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ MDPI fulltext |
| spellingShingle | feeding practices focus groups food literacy food parenting practices nutrition responsive feeding self-determination theory Tartaglia, J. McIntosh, M. Jancey, Jonine Scott, Jane Begley, Andrea Exploring feeding practices and food literacy in parents with young children from disadvantaged areas |
| title | Exploring feeding practices and food literacy in parents with young children from disadvantaged areas |
| title_full | Exploring feeding practices and food literacy in parents with young children from disadvantaged areas |
| title_fullStr | Exploring feeding practices and food literacy in parents with young children from disadvantaged areas |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring feeding practices and food literacy in parents with young children from disadvantaged areas |
| title_short | Exploring feeding practices and food literacy in parents with young children from disadvantaged areas |
| title_sort | exploring feeding practices and food literacy in parents with young children from disadvantaged areas |
| topic | feeding practices focus groups food literacy food parenting practices nutrition responsive feeding self-determination theory |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/82727 |