Messina Catherine R, Weidner Gerdi, Connor Sonja L
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA.
J Am Diet Assoc. 2002 May;102(5):678-82. doi: 10.1016/s0002-8223(02)90154-9.
To examine the relationship between parents' attitudes toward nutrition and plasma lipid levels of their children.
Parents' nutrition attitudes were assessed with the Nutritional Attitude Scale, a self-report questionnaire measuring attitudes toward the adoption of a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet. Parents' and children's plasma lipid and lipoprotein levels were obtained. Data were collected during the baseline period and a 1-year follow-up of the Family Heart Study, a small community study of cholesterol-lowering via dietary change.
PARTICIPANTS/SETTING: Participants were 33 girls and 34 boys (aged 6 to 13 years), and their parents. They were a subsample of European-American, middle-class, Portland, Ore, families participating in the Family Heart Study.
Associations between parents' nutrition attitudes and plasma lipid levels of their children were evaluated using multiple linear regression analyses, controlling for the contribution of parents' lipid levels to those of their children.
Mothers' nutrition attitudes interacted with their daughters' ages, accounting for 14% of the variance in plasma total cholesterol level and 11% in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol level in their daughters. Mothers' unhealthful nutrition attitudes were associated with elevated levels of plasma total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels among older daughters, but not among younger daughters nor their sons. Fathers' nutrition attitudes were unrelated to their children's plasma lipid levels. Mothers' nutrition attitudes assessed at baseline remained a significant predictor of their daughters' lipid levels measured 1 year later.
APPLICATIONS/CONCLUSIONS: The previously reported relationships between adults' unhealthful nutrition attitudes and their own elevated plasma lipid levels appear to extend to that of their children. The association between mothers' nutrition attitudes and their daughters' lipid levels highlights the importance of focusing on nutrition attitudes when designing intervention programs to reduce plasma lipids and lipoproteins via dietary changes in the family.
探讨父母对营养的态度与子女血脂水平之间的关系。
采用营养态度量表评估父母的营养态度，该量表是一份自我报告问卷，用于测量对采用低脂、低胆固醇饮食的态度。获取父母和子女的血脂及脂蛋白水平。数据收集于家庭心脏研究的基线期和1年随访期，该研究是一项通过饮食改变降低胆固醇的小型社区研究。
参与者/研究背景：参与者为33名女孩和34名男孩（年龄6至13岁）及其父母。他们是参与家庭心脏研究的俄勒冈州波特兰市欧美中产阶级家庭的一个子样本。
使用多元线性回归分析评估父母的营养态度与子女血脂水平之间的关联，同时控制父母血脂水平对子女血脂水平的影响。
母亲的营养态度与女儿的年龄存在交互作用，解释了女儿血浆总胆固醇水平变异的14%和低密度脂蛋白胆固醇水平变异的11%。母亲不健康的营养态度与年龄较大女儿的血浆总胆固醇和低密度脂蛋白胆固醇水平升高有关，但与年龄较小的女儿及其儿子无关。父亲的营养态度与子女的血脂水平无关。基线时评估的母亲营养态度仍是1年后测量的女儿血脂水平的显著预测因素。
应用/结论：先前报道的成年人不健康营养态度与自身血脂水平升高之间的关系似乎也适用于他们的子女。母亲的营养态度与女儿血脂水平之间的关联凸显了在设计通过家庭饮食改变来降低血脂和脂蛋白的干预项目时，关注营养态度的重要性。
