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Intervention strategies to promote healthy and sustainable food choices among parents with lower and higher socioeconomic status
BACKGROUND: A global shift towards more healthy and sustainable diets is necessary for the prevention of obesity and chronic diseases, as well as for the growing pressure on our ecosystems. Given that parents are important actors in affecting dietary behaviors of their children, developing intervent...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9761028/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36536355 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14817-y |
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author | Vos, Marjolijn Deforche, Benedicte Van Kerckhove, Anneleen Michels, Nathalie Geuens, Maggie Van Lippevelde, Wendy |
author_facet | Vos, Marjolijn Deforche, Benedicte Van Kerckhove, Anneleen Michels, Nathalie Geuens, Maggie Van Lippevelde, Wendy |
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description | BACKGROUND: A global shift towards more healthy and sustainable diets is necessary for the prevention of obesity and chronic diseases, as well as for the growing pressure on our ecosystems. Given that parents are important actors in affecting dietary behaviors of their children, developing intervention strategies targeting families and their practices is promising to reach positive behavior change among children. Also, it is important to tailor these interventions to the needs of parents with different socioeconomic statuses (SES), given that health inequalities continue to grow. This study aims to investigate perspectives of lower and higher SES parents on the usability and acceptability of various innovative intervention strategies. METHODS: Fourteen focus groups and four individual interviews (n = 78, n(lowerSES) = 17; n(higherSES) = 61) were conducted in Belgium. A semi-structured interview guide was used to facilitate the discussions. The interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed via thematic content analysis using NVivo. RESULTS: To encourage healthy and sustainable food choices, interventions via online food shopping platforms and nudging strategies in grocery stores were mostly cited by higher SES parents, but these were less applicable for lower SES parents as they buy less online and mainly consider the price of products. Mobile applications that provide inspiration for healthy and sustainable recipes and easily accessible shopping lists received moderate support among lower and higher SES parents. Furthermore, both lower and higher SES parents showed interest in meal boxes delivered at home, but lower SES parents have not yet tried such meal boxes because of their higher prices. Still, both groups of SES parents mentioned many advantages of these meal boxes, such as the convenience and time-saving component, as well as the cooking inspiration aspect. CONCLUSION: Our study reveals the preferences of lower and higher SES parents for practical intervention strategies, providing insight in what features these strategies should have to be acceptable and useful. Hence, the findings can inform the development of a tailored family-based intervention strategy to improve parental food choices in favor of increased health and sustainability. |
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spelling | pubmed-97610282022-12-19 Intervention strategies to promote healthy and sustainable food choices among parents with lower and higher socioeconomic status Vos, Marjolijn Deforche, Benedicte Van Kerckhove, Anneleen Michels, Nathalie Geuens, Maggie Van Lippevelde, Wendy BMC Public Health Research BACKGROUND: A global shift towards more healthy and sustainable diets is necessary for the prevention of obesity and chronic diseases, as well as for the growing pressure on our ecosystems. Given that parents are important actors in affecting dietary behaviors of their children, developing intervention strategies targeting families and their practices is promising to reach positive behavior change among children. Also, it is important to tailor these interventions to the needs of parents with different socioeconomic statuses (SES), given that health inequalities continue to grow. This study aims to investigate perspectives of lower and higher SES parents on the usability and acceptability of various innovative intervention strategies. METHODS: Fourteen focus groups and four individual interviews (n = 78, n(lowerSES) = 17; n(higherSES) = 61) were conducted in Belgium. A semi-structured interview guide was used to facilitate the discussions. The interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed via thematic content analysis using NVivo. RESULTS: To encourage healthy and sustainable food choices, interventions via online food shopping platforms and nudging strategies in grocery stores were mostly cited by higher SES parents, but these were less applicable for lower SES parents as they buy less online and mainly consider the price of products. Mobile applications that provide inspiration for healthy and sustainable recipes and easily accessible shopping lists received moderate support among lower and higher SES parents. Furthermore, both lower and higher SES parents showed interest in meal boxes delivered at home, but lower SES parents have not yet tried such meal boxes because of their higher prices. Still, both groups of SES parents mentioned many advantages of these meal boxes, such as the convenience and time-saving component, as well as the cooking inspiration aspect. CONCLUSION: Our study reveals the preferences of lower and higher SES parents for practical intervention strategies, providing insight in what features these strategies should have to be acceptable and useful. Hence, the findings can inform the development of a tailored family-based intervention strategy to improve parental food choices in favor of increased health and sustainability. BioMed Central 2022-12-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9761028/ /pubmed/36536355 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14817-y Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Vos, Marjolijn Deforche, Benedicte Van Kerckhove, Anneleen Michels, Nathalie Geuens, Maggie Van Lippevelde, Wendy Intervention strategies to promote healthy and sustainable food choices among parents with lower and higher socioeconomic status |
title | Intervention strategies to promote healthy and sustainable food choices among parents with lower and higher socioeconomic status |
title_full | Intervention strategies to promote healthy and sustainable food choices among parents with lower and higher socioeconomic status |
title_fullStr | Intervention strategies to promote healthy and sustainable food choices among parents with lower and higher socioeconomic status |
title_full_unstemmed | Intervention strategies to promote healthy and sustainable food choices among parents with lower and higher socioeconomic status |
title_short | Intervention strategies to promote healthy and sustainable food choices among parents with lower and higher socioeconomic status |
title_sort | intervention strategies to promote healthy and sustainable food choices among parents with lower and higher socioeconomic status |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9761028/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36536355 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14817-y |
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