Happy Family Kitchen: Behavioral Outcomes of a Brief Community-Based Family Intervention in Hong Kong

Ho, Hui-Chen; Mui, M; Wan, Alice; Stewart, Sunita M.; Yew, Carol; Lam, Tai Hing; Chan, Sophia Siu Chee

doi:10.1007/s10826-017-0788-3

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“…This was assessed by the frequency of family meal and family meal preparation within the past week, as recalled by the participants, which included the number of times spent per day eating with family members and preparing a meal with family members, that is, cooking, setting up the table, and/or washing the dishes. Self-report frequency of family meal practices is commonly assessed in the family routines and rituals literature (Fiese et al, 2002) and have shown evidence of criterion validity in our previous intervention study (Ho et al, 2017). In the present study, family meal and family meal preparation have demonstrated a high degree of reliability (intraclass correlation coefficient [ICC] = .83, 95% confidence interval [CI] [.81, .85]; ICC = .85, 95% CI [.84, .87], respectively).…”

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“…Thus, only the results from the whole sample are presented. Prior research has adopted this approach to address potential issues from multiple family members (Ho et al, 2017; Ni et al, 2016).…”

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“…Taking meals together serves to reaffirm family relationships and construct the collective family identity (Lai-Yeung, 2015; Wong, 2010; Yu, Veeck, & Yu, 2015). We conducted a series of community-based family intervention studies under The FAMILY Project, including Happy Family Kitchen (HFK I) and Happy Family Kitchen II (HFK II), which applied a positive psychology framework to a family cooking and dining setting to improve family communication and well-being in Hong Kong (Ho et al, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2017). Findings provided support for the effectiveness of the theme-specific family activities with emphasis on gratitude, flow, happiness, health, savoring, and listening during family meals.…”

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“…Although evidence supporting the importance of family meals for well-being has been substantial, most previous research has focused on eating together rather than preparing a meal together. Family meal preparation can provide an invaluable platform for positive communication, appreciation of each other’s contributions, and recognition of each other’s strengths (Ho et al, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2017). Second, although the individual associations between family meals, family communication, and well-being have been separately documented, family communication as a potential underlying process of family mealtime has not been explicitly examined.…”

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Family Meal Practices and Well-Being in Hong Kong: The Mediating Effect of Family Communication

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Wan

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The literature has provided substantial evidence for the positive associations between family meals and well-being. The underlying mechanism of this relationship has not been explicitly examined. The Happy Family Kitchen II project was a cluster randomized controlled trial of a community-based family intervention. Using data from this project, this article examined the direct and indirect associations among family meal practices, family communication time and quality, and well-being in Hong Kong. A total of 1,261 participants completed a self-administered questionnaire at baseline, 4 weeks, and 12 weeks. Cross-sectional and prospective mediation analyses showed that family meal and family meal preparation indirectly influenced family health, happiness and harmony, subjective happiness, and mental and physical quality of life through their effects on family communication quality. In contrast, family communication time was a weaker mediator of these effects. These findings highlight the role of quality rather than quantity of family communication in promoting well-being.

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“…Most relevant to this study, flow is effective for boosting emotional well-being during stressful periods of uncertainty (Rankin, Walsh, & Sweeny, 2018). Notably, researchers have documented the benefits of flow across a number of cultures and countries, including Japan (Asakawa, 2004;Asakawa, 2010), Czech Republic (Brom et al, 2016, Hong Kong (Ho et al, 2017), Sweden (Mosing, Butkovic, & Ullen, 2018), and Italy (Bassi et al, 2014).…”

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Flow in the Time of COVID-19: Findings from China

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In February 2020, the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) was raging in Wuhan, China and quickly spreading to the rest of the world. This period was fraught with uncertainty for those in the affected areas. The present investigation examined the role of two potential coping resources during this stressful period of uncertainty: flow and mindfulness. Participants in Wuhan and other major cities affected by COVID-19 (N = 5115) completed an online survey assessing experiences of flow, mindfulness, and well-being. Longer quarantine was associated with poorer well-being; flow and mindfulness predicted better well-being on some measures. However, flow—but not mindfulness—moderated the link between quarantine length and well-being, such that people who experienced high levels flow showed little or no association between quarantine length and poorer well-being. These findings suggest that engaging in flow-inducing activities may be a particularly effective way to protect against the deleterious effects of a period of quarantine.

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A study on factors leading to poor mental health of children in Punjab, Pakistan

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Rasul³

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In this article, the several factors have been investigated relating to the poor mental health of the children in Punjab, Pakistan. Using the data of the survey conducted by the Punjab Bureau of Statistics, different determinants of child malnutrition and poverty were diagnosed based upon sufficient information of the children under 5 year of age. Logistic regression analysis methodology has been applied for screening the most influential factors of the study. It has been observed that the rise in poverty has prejudiced the nutritional position of the children, the mother's education, and the fitness of the youth. It has also been observed that male children are more at risk to poor mental health than female children.A number of policy issues came to light from the findings of the study. The wealth index of all three anthropometric measures, the child malnutrition status of uneducated mothers, and the child diarrhea menace are the significant areas.

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Happy Family Kitchen: Behavioral Outcomes of a Brief Community-Based Family Intervention in Hong Kong

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Family Meal Practices and Well-Being in Hong Kong: The Mediating Effect of Family Communication

Family Meal Practices and Well-Being in Hong Kong: The Mediating Effect of Family Communication

Flow in the Time of COVID-19: Findings from China

A study on factors leading to poor mental health of children in Punjab, Pakistan

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