Fruit and Vegetable Shopping Practices and Social Support Scales: A Validation

Baranowski, Tom; Missaghian, Mariam; Broadfoot, Alison; Watson, Kathy; Cullen, Karen Weber; Nicklas, Theresa A.; Fisher, Jennifer O.; Baranowski, Janice; O’Donnell, Sharon

doi:10.1016/j.jneb.2006.06.005

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“…Clearly, families shopping only once a month were not purchasing a large quantity of fresh FV items. FV shopping practices, social support for purchasing FV [29], parent outcome expectancies for purchasing FV [30], and FV pantry management practices [31] were correlated with home FV availability. When combined in the same predictive model and controlling for possible demographic confounders, only social support for purchasing FV predicted home FV availability [32].…”

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Influences on Children's Dietary Behavior, and Innovative Attempts to Change It

2013

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Fruit and vegetable (FV) intake may protect against several chronic diseases, and the preferences and habits in relation to FV intake appear to form in early childhood. Child FV intake reflects many influences from multiple levels (e.g. internal to the child, family, school, and neighborhood). We have documented influences at each of these levels, but more definitive research in longitudinal samples remains to be conducted. Even though validated comprehensive models of influences on child FV intake in longitudinal studies are not available to guide intervention design for children of different ages, there has been an urgency to initiate chronic disease prevention interventions to mitigate the substantial health consequences. Effective interventions use known behavior change procedures to change the influences on FV intake enough to change the behavior, but few such interventions have demonstrated effectiveness at meaningful levels. Innovative methods need to be explored. Videogames for Health offer a medium that is attractive to children and shows promising results, especially for dietary behavior change. Exciting additional research is needed to clarify possible bidirectional influences between the environmental and individual influences on child intake with possible age-related differences in influence and in the optimal design of video games for dietary change.

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“…Enabling adult food shoppers (with children at home) to purchase more fruit, 100% juice, and vegetables should increase home availability, and thereby children’s consumption. Qualitative research suggested a variety of factors may influence the purchase of fruit, 100% juice, and vegetables and thereby increase their availability in the home, including: frequency of food shopping (3); purchase and comparative purchase (eg, such as fresh vs other); fruit, 100% juice, and vegetable outcome expectancies (ie, the perceived benefits and costs of purchasing fruit, 100% juice, and vegetables) (4); home food pantry management practices (5); family social support for purchasing (6); and food shopping practices (7). The Figure provides a conceptual model of how these variables could logically be interrelated.…”

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Social Support Is a Primary Influence on Home Fruit, 100% Juice, and Vegetable Availability

Baranowski¹,

Watson²,

Missaghian³

et al. 2008

Journal of the American Dietetic Association

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Children tend to eat more fruit and vegetables when more are available in the home. We proposed and tested a model that predicts the availability at home (hereinafter termed "home availability") of fruit, 100% juice, and vegetables, using new measures of frequency of food shopping, purchase, and comparative purchase outcome expectancies (ie, the perceived benefits and costs of purchasing fruit and vegetables), home food pantry management practices, family social support for purchasing fruit and vegetables, food shopping practices, and body mass index (BMI). Participants (N=98) were recruited in 2004 in front of grocery stores and completed two telephone interviews. Cross-sectional hierarchical regression was employed with backward deletion of nonsignificant variables. Despite many statistically significant bivariate correlations between the new variables and home fruit, 100% juice, and vegetable availability, social support was the primary predictor of home fruit availability in multivariate regression. BMI and home 100% juice pantry management were the primary predictors of home 100% juice availability. Social support, BMI, and shopping practices were the primary predictors of home vegetable availability. Social support for purchasing fruit, 100% juice, and vegetables was an important, consistent predictor of home availability. These findings need to be replicated in larger samples.Consuming fruit, 100% juice, and vegetables has many positive health outcomes (1). Children tend to eat more fruit, 100% juice, and vegetables when they are available in the home (2). Little is known, however, about factors influencing home availability of these foods. Enabling adult food shoppers (with children at home) to purchase more fruit, 100% juice, and vegetables should increase home availability, and thereby children's consumption. Qualitative research suggested a variety of factors may influence the purchase of fruit, 100% juice, and vegetables and thereby increase their availability in the home, including: frequency of food shopping (3); purchase and comparative purchase (eg, such as fresh vs other); fruit, 100% juice, and vegetable outcome expectancies (ie, the perceived benefits and costs of purchasing fruit, 100% juice, and vegetables) (4); home food pantry management practices (5); family social support for purchasing (6); and food shopping practices (7). The Figure provides a conceptual model of how these variables could logically be interrelated.Based on participant statements in qualitative interviews about home food practices, items were generated for corresponding scales. In subsequent quantitative research, the psychometric characteristics were assessed and validated against measures of home fruit, 100% juice, and vegetable availability (4-7). A relatively new psychometric procedure, Item Response Modeling, assessed how the items distributed across a latent variable and thereby covered the distribution of all participants. All scales correlated with home fruit, 100% juice, and vegetable availability, even...

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“…Outside of construct validity, other psychometric properties of the communication constructs were not evaluated as part of the current study. However the instrument was adapted from previously validated constructs (Baranowski et al, 2006). Another limitation is that there is no clear linkage between parent and ECE center providers’ influence on food consumption behaviors of the preschool children which needs to be examined in future studies (Briley & McAllaster 2011).…”

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“…Project staff sent the surveys home to the consenting parents. Communication between parent and child was assessed using four questions for each of the FVWG adapted from previously validated questionnaires (Baranowski et al 2006). These four questions asked the parents about their child’s approval of packing FVWG foods in the sack lunches; how often the child has asked the parent regarding packing FVWG foods in the sack lunches; child reminded parents to buy FVWG foods for his or her sack lunches; and frequency of child talking about FVWG foods for his or her sack lunch.…”

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Effectiveness of the Lunch is in the Bag program on communication between the parent, child and child-care provider around fruits, vegetables and whole grain foods: A group-randomized controlled trial

Sharma

Rashid

Ranjit³

et al. 2015

Preventive Medicine

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Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of the parent- and early care education (ECE) center-based Lunch is in the Bag program on communication between parent, child, and their ECE center providers around fruits, vegetables and whole grain foods (FVWG). Method A total of n=30 ECE center; 577 parent-child dyads participated in this group-randomized controlled trial conducted from 2011–2013 in Texas (n=15 ECE center, 327 dyads intervention group; n=15 ECE center, 250 dyads comparison group). Parent-child and parent-ECE center provider communication was measured using a parent-reported survey administered at baseline and end of the five-week intervention period. Multilevel linear regression analysis was used to compare the pre-to-post intervention changes in the parent-child and parent-ECE center provider communication scales. Significance was set at p<0.05. Results At baseline, parent-child and parent-ECE center provider communication scores were low. There was a significant increase post-intervention in the parent-ECE center provider communication around vegetables (Adjusted β = 0.78, 95%CI: 0.13, 1.43, p=0.002), and around fruit (Adjusted β = 0.62, 95%CI: 0.04, 0.20, p=0.04) among the parents in the intervention group as compared to those in the comparison group. There were no significant intervention effects on parent-child communication. Conclusion Lunch is in the Bag had significant positive effects on improving communication between the parents and ECE center providers around FVWG.

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Fruit and Vegetable Shopping Practices and Social Support Scales: A Validation

Cited by 24 publications

References 10 publications

Influences on Children's Dietary Behavior, and Innovative Attempts to Change It

Influences on Children's Dietary Behavior, and Innovative Attempts to Change It

Social Support Is a Primary Influence on Home Fruit, 100% Juice, and Vegetable Availability

Effectiveness of the Lunch is in the Bag program on communication between the parent, child and child-care provider around fruits, vegetables and whole grain foods: A group-randomized controlled trial

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