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Children’s Intake of Food from Non-Fast-Food Outlets and Child-Specific Menus: A Survey of Parents
Eating out-of-home is associated with higher energy intakes in children. The continued high prevalence of childhood obesity requires a greater understanding of child menu options and eating out frequency to inform appropriate regulatory initiatives. The majority of studies to date have focused on me...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6915613/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31683781 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children6110123 |
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author | Chai, Li Kheng Yoong, Sze Lin Bucher, Tamara Collins, Clare E Shrewsbury, Vanessa A |
author_facet | Chai, Li Kheng Yoong, Sze Lin Bucher, Tamara Collins, Clare E Shrewsbury, Vanessa A |
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description | Eating out-of-home is associated with higher energy intakes in children. The continued high prevalence of childhood obesity requires a greater understanding of child menu options and eating out frequency to inform appropriate regulatory initiatives. The majority of studies to date have focused on menus from fast-food outlets with few focused on non-fast-food outlets. This study aimed to describe parents’ reports of their child(ren)’s (aged up to 6 years) frequency of consuming foods at non-fast-food outlets, observations of child menus at these outlets, and their purchasing behaviours and future preferences regarding these menus; and if their responses were influenced by sociodemographic characteristics. Ninety-five parents completed a 15-item cross-sectional survey. Overall, children from 54% of families consumed food from non-fast-food outlets at least monthly. Of the 87 parents who reported that their child eats at a non-fast-food restaurant, 71 had children who ordered from child menus every time (7%, n = 5), often (29%, n = 22), sometimes (42%, n = 32) or rarely (16%, n = 12), with a further 7% (n = 5) never ordering from these menus. All parents indicated that they would like to see a higher proportion of healthy child menu items than is currently offered. Parents’ responses were not influenced by sociodemographic characteristics. Parents’ views support implementation of initiatives to increase availability of healthy options on child menus at non-fast-food outlets. |
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spelling | pubmed-69156132019-12-24 Children’s Intake of Food from Non-Fast-Food Outlets and Child-Specific Menus: A Survey of Parents Chai, Li Kheng Yoong, Sze Lin Bucher, Tamara Collins, Clare E Shrewsbury, Vanessa A Children (Basel) Article Eating out-of-home is associated with higher energy intakes in children. The continued high prevalence of childhood obesity requires a greater understanding of child menu options and eating out frequency to inform appropriate regulatory initiatives. The majority of studies to date have focused on menus from fast-food outlets with few focused on non-fast-food outlets. This study aimed to describe parents’ reports of their child(ren)’s (aged up to 6 years) frequency of consuming foods at non-fast-food outlets, observations of child menus at these outlets, and their purchasing behaviours and future preferences regarding these menus; and if their responses were influenced by sociodemographic characteristics. Ninety-five parents completed a 15-item cross-sectional survey. Overall, children from 54% of families consumed food from non-fast-food outlets at least monthly. Of the 87 parents who reported that their child eats at a non-fast-food restaurant, 71 had children who ordered from child menus every time (7%, n = 5), often (29%, n = 22), sometimes (42%, n = 32) or rarely (16%, n = 12), with a further 7% (n = 5) never ordering from these menus. All parents indicated that they would like to see a higher proportion of healthy child menu items than is currently offered. Parents’ responses were not influenced by sociodemographic characteristics. Parents’ views support implementation of initiatives to increase availability of healthy options on child menus at non-fast-food outlets. MDPI 2019-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6915613/ /pubmed/31683781 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children6110123 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Chai, Li Kheng Yoong, Sze Lin Bucher, Tamara Collins, Clare E Shrewsbury, Vanessa A Children’s Intake of Food from Non-Fast-Food Outlets and Child-Specific Menus: A Survey of Parents |
title | Children’s Intake of Food from Non-Fast-Food Outlets and Child-Specific Menus: A Survey of Parents |
title_full | Children’s Intake of Food from Non-Fast-Food Outlets and Child-Specific Menus: A Survey of Parents |
title_fullStr | Children’s Intake of Food from Non-Fast-Food Outlets and Child-Specific Menus: A Survey of Parents |
title_full_unstemmed | Children’s Intake of Food from Non-Fast-Food Outlets and Child-Specific Menus: A Survey of Parents |
title_short | Children’s Intake of Food from Non-Fast-Food Outlets and Child-Specific Menus: A Survey of Parents |
title_sort | children’s intake of food from non-fast-food outlets and child-specific menus: a survey of parents |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6915613/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31683781 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children6110123 |
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