TY - JOUR
T1 - Intergenerational Family Conversations and Decision Making about Eating Healthfully
AU - Kaplan, Matthew
AU - Kiernan, Nancy Ellen
AU - James, Lynn
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded by the USDA/Food and Nutrition Service through the Pennsylvania Nutrition Education Program as part of Food Stamp Nutrition Education.
Funding Information:
This study was funded by USDA/Food and Nutrition Service through the Pennsylvania Nutrition Education Program as part of Food Stamp Nutrition Education. Flavia Herzog (Albert Einstein Health System), Fran Alloway (Penn State Cooperative Extension), Tanya Nolte (graduate assistant), and Louise Byler (research assistant) contributed to various aspects of the research.
Copyright:
Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2006/9
Y1 - 2006/9
N2 - Objective: To explore how youth, parents, and grandparents discuss issues related to eating healthfully and unhealthfully and to identify intergenerational strategies for educators to improve this communication. Design: In three intergenerational focus groups, each with 4-8 families, a trained moderator asked questions about family practices and conversations for eating healthfully and unhealthfully. Setting: Three focus group sites, each with Pennsylvania Nutrition Education Program sites (PANEP) programs serving low-income populations and multigenerational clientele, based in geographically and culturally diverse communities in Pennsylvania. Participants: Forty-four individuals (21 pre-teens, 16 parents, and 7 grandparents) from 17 families. Phenomenon of Interest: How youth, parents, and grandparents discuss and influence each other's healthful and unhealthful eating practices. Analysis: "Strength" of evidence determined by repetition of ideas across focus groups and from the respondents' quotes providing in-depth information. Results: Families demonstrated a wide range of ways that family communication is associated with the adoption of healthful and unhealthful patterns of eating. Parents and grandparents expressed anguish over their struggle and inability to help their children eat more healthfully. All three generations enumerated strategies for dealing with disagreement. Conclusions and Implications: Grandparents, parents and children indicate that they need opportunities to learn together and communicate about ways to improve nutrition behaviors.
AB - Objective: To explore how youth, parents, and grandparents discuss issues related to eating healthfully and unhealthfully and to identify intergenerational strategies for educators to improve this communication. Design: In three intergenerational focus groups, each with 4-8 families, a trained moderator asked questions about family practices and conversations for eating healthfully and unhealthfully. Setting: Three focus group sites, each with Pennsylvania Nutrition Education Program sites (PANEP) programs serving low-income populations and multigenerational clientele, based in geographically and culturally diverse communities in Pennsylvania. Participants: Forty-four individuals (21 pre-teens, 16 parents, and 7 grandparents) from 17 families. Phenomenon of Interest: How youth, parents, and grandparents discuss and influence each other's healthful and unhealthful eating practices. Analysis: "Strength" of evidence determined by repetition of ideas across focus groups and from the respondents' quotes providing in-depth information. Results: Families demonstrated a wide range of ways that family communication is associated with the adoption of healthful and unhealthful patterns of eating. Parents and grandparents expressed anguish over their struggle and inability to help their children eat more healthfully. All three generations enumerated strategies for dealing with disagreement. Conclusions and Implications: Grandparents, parents and children indicate that they need opportunities to learn together and communicate about ways to improve nutrition behaviors.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jneb.2006.02.010
DO - 10.1016/j.jneb.2006.02.010
M3 - Article
C2 - 16966051
AN - SCOPUS:33748460844
SN - 1499-4046
VL - 38
SP - 298
EP - 306
JO - Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
JF - Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
IS - 5
ER -