Caputi Marcella, Dulay Katrina May, Bulgarelli Daniela, Houston-Price Carmel, Cerrato Giuseppina, Fanelli Mauro, Masento Natalie A, Molina Paola
Department of Psychology, Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy.
Sigmund Freud University, Milano, Italy.
Front Psychol. 2021 Aug 27;12:712416. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.712416. eCollection 2021.
Different strategies have been developed to help parents with introducing new or disliked vegetables. Nonetheless, many parents of preschoolers struggle against children's refusal to eat vegetables. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of e-books in promoting positive attitudes toward vegetables through repeated visual exposures. A total of 61 families with preschoolers joined the See & Eat study and received an e-book about one of two vegetables chosen from a list of 24. Parents provided ratings of children's willingness to taste, intake, and liking of the chosen vegetables before and after reading the e-book; parents also evaluated their children's food fussiness and their agreement with respect to three mealtime goals of the family. Using a 2 (vegetable: target or non-target) × 2 (time: pre-test or post-test) within-subjects analysis, results from 53 families revealed a significant increase in children's willingness to taste, intake, and liking at post-test of both target and non-target vegetables. Following a two-week parent-child e-book reading intervention, children's food fussiness and parents' endorsement of positive mealtime goals slightly but significantly increased. Results suggest that e-books are effective in encouraging healthy eating among preschoolers and that the positive effect of e-book reading can generalize to other vegetables.
人们已经制定了不同的策略来帮助家长给孩子引入新的或孩子不喜欢的蔬菜。尽管如此，许多学龄前儿童的家长仍在努力应对孩子拒绝吃蔬菜的问题。在这项研究中，我们旨在评估电子书通过反复视觉呈现来促进对蔬菜形成积极态度的有效性。共有61个有学龄前儿童的家庭参与了“看与吃”研究，并收到了一本关于从24种蔬菜列表中选出的两种蔬菜之一的电子书。家长在阅读电子书前后对孩子品尝、摄入所选蔬菜的意愿以及对所选蔬菜的喜爱程度进行评分；家长还评估了孩子对食物的挑剔程度以及他们对家庭三个用餐目标的认同度。采用2（蔬菜：目标蔬菜或非目标蔬菜）×2（时间：测试前或测试后）的受试者内分析，53个家庭的结果显示，在测试后，目标蔬菜和非目标蔬菜的孩子品尝、摄入的意愿以及喜爱程度都有显著提高。经过为期两周的亲子电子书阅读干预后，孩子对食物的挑剔程度以及家长对积极用餐目标的认同度略有但显著提高。结果表明，电子书在鼓励学龄前儿童健康饮食方面是有效的，并且阅读电子书的积极效果可以推广到其他蔬菜上。
