School of Population Health, Curtin University, Kent St, Bentley 6102, Australia.
The Kids Research Institute Australia, 15 Hospital Ave, Nedlands 6009, Australia.
Nutrients. 2024 Sep 30;16(19):3320. doi: 10.3390/nu16193320.
Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) account for a significant proportion of sugar in the diet of children and are directly associated with obesity in this group. While there have been many studies on adolescent SSB consumption, few studies have examined the predictors of SSB consumption in primary-school-aged children. The aim of this study was to understand the degree to which a child's consumption across a range of beverages is influenced by their own attitudes and by their parents' attitudes and parents' consumption behaviours.
A survey of 1611 Australian parent-child dyads asked children (aged 4-11) and their parents to rate a variety of drinks in terms of healthiness, taste, and cost and indicate the amount of these drinks consumed in a typical week. Zero-inflated regression analyses were conducted to identify the strength of association between children's weekly beverage consumption, their perceptions of each beverage, their parents' perceptions, and their parents' weekly beverage consumption.
Parental consumption of a specific beverage was the strongest predictor of child consumption of that beverage, more so than the children's perceptions of the beverage.
These findings provide insights for developing parent and child education programmes to reduce SSB consumption.
含糖饮料（SSB）在儿童饮食中的糖分含量占很大比例，并且与该群体的肥胖直接相关。虽然已经有许多关于青少年 SSB 消费的研究，但很少有研究调查小学生 SSB 消费的预测因素。本研究旨在了解儿童对一系列饮料的消费在多大程度上受到他们自己的态度以及父母的态度和父母的消费行为的影响。
对 1611 对澳大利亚亲子对进行了一项调查，要求儿童（4-11 岁）及其父母根据健康、口味和价格对各种饮料进行评分，并说明在典型的一周内饮用这些饮料的数量。零膨胀回归分析用于确定儿童每周饮料消费与其对每种饮料的感知、父母的感知以及父母每周饮料消费之间的关联强度。
特定饮料的父母消费是儿童消费该饮料的最强预测因素，比儿童对饮料的看法更重要。
这些发现为制定针对父母和儿童的教育计划以减少 SSB 消费提供了思路。
