Yong Cuiting, Kuang Xiaoni, Liu Yan, Xiang Caihong, Xi Yue, Huo Jiaqi, Liang Jiajing, Zou Hanshaung, Lin Qian
Department of Nutrition Science and Food Hygiene, Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University, 110 Xiangya Rd, Changsha, 410078, China.
Department of Child Care, Changsha Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital, 416 Chengnan East Rd of Yuhua District, Changsha, 410007, China.
Appetite. 2023 Jun 1;185:106547. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2023.106547. Epub 2023 Mar 21.
This study explores the relationship between parental food neophobia, feeding practices, and preschoolers' food neophobia in China.
A cross-sectional study was conducted among 1616 pairs of preschoolers and their parents. Electronic questionnaires were conducted to collect information about social and demographic characteristics, scores of food neophobia among both children and their parents, parents' feeding patterns and children's dietary quality.
Children's average food neophobia score was 23.73 ± 4.45. There was a positive correlation between parental food neophobia score (β: 0.154; 95%CI: 0.113, 0.195), pressure to eat (β: 0.694; 95%CI: 0.423, 0.964), postpartum breastfeeding initiation (β: 0.010; 95%CI: 0.002, 0.018), and children's score of food neophobia. However, parental modeling (β: -0.470; 95%CI: -0.732, -0.207) and the frequency of children eating with their families at home (β: -0.407; 95%CI: -0.707, -0.108) were negatively associated with children's food neophobia scores. The consumption frequencies of vegetables (P < 0.001), fruits (P < 0.001), domestic animals and poultry (P < 0.01), aquatic products (P < 0.05), beans and their products (P < 0.01), eggs (P < 0.05) and nuts (P < 0.05) and children's dietary diversity score (P < 0.001) are negatively associated with children' food neophobia score. While the consumption frequencies of fast food (P < 0.001), sweets (P < 0.01) and puffed/fried food (P < 0.001) were positively associated with children's food neophobia.
Chinese preschoolers' food neophobia needs more attention because children with high food neophobia tend to have lower dietary quality. Children whose parents have high-level food neophobia should be the focus of early prevention. Earlier postpartum breastfeeding, more use of parental modelling, less pressure to eat and higher frequency of children eating with families are helpful to reduce the incidence of children's food neophobia.
本研究探讨了中国父母的食物恐新症、喂养方式与学龄前儿童食物恐新症之间的关系。
对1616对学龄前儿童及其父母进行了一项横断面研究。通过电子问卷收集有关社会和人口统计学特征、儿童及其父母的食物恐新症得分、父母的喂养模式和儿童的饮食质量等信息。
儿童的食物恐新症平均得分为23.73 ± 4.45。父母的食物恐新症得分(β:0.154;95%置信区间:0.113,0.195)、进食压力(β:0.694;95%置信区间:0.423,0.964)、产后开始母乳喂养(β:0.010;95%置信区间:0.002,0.018)与儿童的食物恐新症得分呈正相关。然而,父母的示范作用(β:-0.470;95%置信区间:-0.732,-0.207)以及儿童在家与家人一起吃饭的频率(β:-0.407;95%置信区间:-0.707,-0.108)与儿童的食物恐新症得分呈负相关。蔬菜(P < 0.001)、水果(P < 0.001)、家畜家禽(P < 0.01)、水产品(P < 0.05)、豆类及其制品(P < 0.01)、蛋类(P < 0.05)和坚果(P < 0.05)的消费频率以及儿童的饮食多样性得分(P < 0.001)与儿童的食物恐新症得分呈负相关。而快餐(P < 0.001)、甜食(P < 0.01)和膨化/油炸食品(P < 0.001)的消费频率与儿童的食物恐新症呈正相关。
中国学龄前儿童的食物恐新症需要更多关注,因为食物恐新症程度高的儿童往往饮食质量较低。父母食物恐新症程度高的儿童应成为早期预防的重点。产后更早开始母乳喂养、更多运用父母的示范作用、减少进食压力以及提高儿童与家人一起吃饭的频率有助于降低儿童食物恐新症的发生率。