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Strategies elementary school children use to influence mothers' food purchasing decisions

This study aimed to understand the strategies elementary‐school‐aged children used to influence mothers' food purchasing decisions. Semi‐structured qualitative interviews were conducted with 40 children aged 6–11 years and their mothers living in South Carolina. Strategies to influence mothers&...

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Autores principales: Monalisa, Nazratun N., Frongillo, Edward A., Blake, Christine E., Steck, Susan E., DiPietro, Robin B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10483942/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37321980
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mcn.13539
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author Monalisa, Nazratun N.
Frongillo, Edward A.
Blake, Christine E.
Steck, Susan E.
DiPietro, Robin B.
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description This study aimed to understand the strategies elementary‐school‐aged children used to influence mothers' food purchasing decisions. Semi‐structured qualitative interviews were conducted with 40 children aged 6–11 years and their mothers living in South Carolina. Strategies to influence mothers' food purchases were collected from children and their mothers separately. The interviews were audio‐recorded, transcribed verbatim, and open‐coded. The constant comparative method was used for data analysis. Coding matrices were used to compare children's and mothers' responses on the children's strategies. Children reported 157 instances of 25 distinct strategies to influence mothers' purchasing decisions. Mothers had concordance with 83 instances of these strategies. Mothers were more concordant with sons than daughters. The most common and successful strategies reported by children and mothers were repeated polite requests, reasoned requests and referencing friends. Other strategies included offers to contribute money or service, using other family members to pursue mothers for the item, writing a list and grabbing desired items. Mothers perceived that children had a large influence on food purchasing decisions. Children were aware of the strategies that would get positive reactions from mothers. They (children) could get their desired items a lot of times, often, or several times in a month from their mothers irrespective of the healthfulness of the items. Children's influence can be used as a change agent for improving mothers' food purchases if children prefer healthy foods. Efforts are needed for mothers and children to help address children's strategies to influence mothers to purchase unhealthy foods and make healthy foods more appealing to children.
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spelling pubmed-104839422023-09-08 Strategies elementary school children use to influence mothers' food purchasing decisions Monalisa, Nazratun N. Frongillo, Edward A. Blake, Christine E. Steck, Susan E. DiPietro, Robin B. Matern Child Nutr Original Articles This study aimed to understand the strategies elementary‐school‐aged children used to influence mothers' food purchasing decisions. Semi‐structured qualitative interviews were conducted with 40 children aged 6–11 years and their mothers living in South Carolina. Strategies to influence mothers' food purchases were collected from children and their mothers separately. The interviews were audio‐recorded, transcribed verbatim, and open‐coded. The constant comparative method was used for data analysis. Coding matrices were used to compare children's and mothers' responses on the children's strategies. Children reported 157 instances of 25 distinct strategies to influence mothers' purchasing decisions. Mothers had concordance with 83 instances of these strategies. Mothers were more concordant with sons than daughters. The most common and successful strategies reported by children and mothers were repeated polite requests, reasoned requests and referencing friends. Other strategies included offers to contribute money or service, using other family members to pursue mothers for the item, writing a list and grabbing desired items. Mothers perceived that children had a large influence on food purchasing decisions. Children were aware of the strategies that would get positive reactions from mothers. They (children) could get their desired items a lot of times, often, or several times in a month from their mothers irrespective of the healthfulness of the items. Children's influence can be used as a change agent for improving mothers' food purchases if children prefer healthy foods. Efforts are needed for mothers and children to help address children's strategies to influence mothers to purchase unhealthy foods and make healthy foods more appealing to children. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10483942/ /pubmed/37321980 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mcn.13539 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Maternal & Child Nutrition published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mcn.13539
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