Trial reportPublic health nutrition2016
Eating breakfast together as a family: mealtime experiences and associations with dietary intake among adolescents in rural Minnesota, USA.
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- Family meal frequency and its association with food consumption and nutritional status in adolescents: A systematic review.PloS one · 2020Pooled it
- Fathering, family meals, and child health and well-being: A life course perspective.Family relations · 2026Article
- How Family Structure Can Influence Adolescents' Eating Habits: An Italian Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) 2022 Sample.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The Influence of the Home Food Environment on the Eating Behaviors, Family Meals, and Academic Achievement of Adolescents in Schools in the UAE.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- A Scoping Review of Household Factors Contributing to Dietary Quality and Food Security in Low-Income Households with School-Age Children in the United States.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2023Article
- Food Insecurity and Parent Feeding Practices in Urban and Rural Children Ages 7-12 years.Journal of nutrition education and behavior · 2023Article
- Are there protective associations between family/shared meal routines during COVID-19 and dietary health and emotional well-being in diverse young adults?Preventive medicine reports · 2021Article
- Impact of school and work status on diet and physical activity in rural Guatemalan adolescent girls: a qualitative study.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2020Article
- Do Parents Perceive That Organized Activities Interfere with Family Meals? Associations between Parent Perceptions and Aspects of the Household Eating Environment.Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2020Article
- Ecological Momentary Assessment of the Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner Family Meal Environment in Racially/Ethnically Diverse and Immigrant Households.Journal of nutrition education and behavior · 2019Article
- Intergenerational transmission of family meal patterns from adolescence to parenthood: longitudinal associations with parents' dietary intake, weight-related behaviours and psychosocial well-being.Public health nutrition · 2018Article
- Beyond the dinner table: who's having breakfast, lunch and dinner family meals and which meals are associated with better diet quality and BMI in pre-school children?Public health nutrition · 2017Article
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Abstract
objectiveAlthough existing evidence links breakfast frequency to better dietary quality, little is known specifically in regard to the benefits associated with eating breakfast together with one's family. The present study describes the prevalence and experience of having family meals at breakfast among rural families and examines associations between meal frequency and adolescent diet quality.
designData were drawn from Project BreakFAST, a group-randomized trial aimed at increasing school breakfast participation in rural Minnesota high schools, USA. Linear mixed models were used to examine associations between student reports of family breakfast frequency and Healthy Eating Index 2010 (HEI-2010) scores while accounting for clustering within schools, demographics and household food security.
settingAdolescent students from sixteen schools completed online surveys, height and weight measurements, and dietary recalls at baseline in 2012-2014. SUBJECTS: The sample included 827 adolescents (55·1 % girls) in grades 9-10 who reported eating breakfast on at most three days per school week.
resultsOn average, adolescents reported eating breakfast with their family 1·3 (sd 1·9) times in the past week. Family breakfast meals occurred most frequently in the homes of adolescents who reported a race other than white (P=0·002) or Hispanic ethnicity (P=0·02). Family breakfast frequency was directly associated with adolescent involvement in preparing breakfast meals (P<0·001) and positive attitudes (P≤0·01) about mealtime importance, interactions and structure. Family breakfast frequency was unrelated to most diet quality markers.
conclusionsFamily meals may be one important context of opportunity for promoting healthy food patterns at breakfast. Additional research is needed to better inform and evaluate strategies.
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