ArticleJournal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics2020
Do Parents Perceive That Organized Activities Interfere with Family Meals? Associations between Parent Perceptions and Aspects of the Household Eating Environment.
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- Typology of out-of-home eaters: a description of sociodemographic, lifestyle, nutritional and environmental characteristics in the NutriNet-Santé cohort.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Article
- Unpacking family meals: state-of-the-art review critiquing the Western ideals, positioning and promotion of family meals.Health promotion international · 2025Review
- Class Enumeration in Mixture Modeling with Nested Data: A Brief Report.Journal of experimental education · 2024Article
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backgroundResearch has related child participation in organized activities to health and academic benefits; however, participation may interfere with family meals.
objectiveExamine whether parents perceive child participation in organized activities to interfere with family meals and how perceptions are related to the household eating environment.
designA cross-sectional analysis was completed using survey data collected in 2015-2016 as part of the Project EAT (Eating and Activity in Teens and Young Adults) cohort study.
participantsSurvey participants were originally recruited in Minneapolis-St Paul schools in 1998-1999. The analytic subsample of parents (one per household, n=389, 69% female, 31% nonwhite race, mean age=31) had one or more children involved in an organized activity. Approximately 33% of households included a child aged 2 to 5 and no older child; two thirds of households included school-aged children (6 to 18 years).
main outcome measuresParents reported family meal frequency, family meal scheduling difficulties, frequency of at-home meal preparation, and their own intake of fast food, fruit, and vegetables. STATISTICAL ANALYSES PERFORMED: Analyses compared household environment characteristics reported by parents who perceived low interference between organized activities and family meals to characteristics reported by parents who perceived moderate to high interference from at least one form of activity. Regression models included a dichotomous indicator of interference as the independent variable and were adjusted for parental and household characteristics.
resultsAmong parents with children at any age, moderate to high interference was associated with lower family meal frequency, greater difficulty scheduling family meals, and more fast-food intake (all P≤0.01). The perception of moderate to high interference was more common among parents who reported involvement in both sport and nonsport activities (P<0.001) and those with a school-aged child (P<0.001) vs those with only preschool-aged children.
conclusionsFollow-up research, including qualitative studies, is needed to identify the specific aspects of child participation in organized activities (eg, scheduled time of day) that may interfere with family meals.
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