In:
Health Promotion Practice, SAGE Publications, Vol. 16, No. 5 ( 2015-09), p. 689-698
Abstract:
Background. This investigation sought to identify micro-level built and sociocultural characteristics of a home food environment that have been theoretically linked with fruit and vegetable (F & V) consumption. Method. We examined rural families (n = 298) from the southeastern United States. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses determined the association between the outcome variable (F & V consumption) and micro-level built and sociocultural characteristics of a home food environment. Results. Demographic characteristics were entered at Step 1, explaining 14% of variance in vegetable consumption and 9% in fruit consumption. After entry of sociocultural factors in the home food environment, such as parenting styles and so on, in Block 2, the total variance explained increased by 25% for vegetable consumption and 12% for fruit consumption. Micro-level built environmental factors such as the availability of F & V in the home was entered at Block 3, total variance explained by the model for vegetable consumption was 67%, F(17, 111) = 13.5, p 〈 .001, and for fruit consumption was 57%, F(17, 160) = 12.5, p 〈 .001. Conclusion. F & V availability was the most important variable influencing a child’s consumption of F & V. There are modifiable factors within the rural low-income home that could serve as priorities for intervention to improve F & V consumption.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1524-8399
,
1552-6372
DOI:
10.1177/1524839915589733
Language:
English
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Publication Date:
2015
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2036801-X
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