Maternal Nutrition Knowledge and Children's Diet Quality and Nutrient Intakes

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英文名称：

Maternal Nutrition Knowledge and Children's Diet Quality and Nutrient Intakes

作者：

James R. Blaylock; Jay Variyam; Biing-Hwan Lin

工作单位：

USDA's Economic Research Service

来源地址：

https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=46422

关键词：

Child nutrition;  child health;  Healthy Eating Index;  nutrition knowledge;  household production theory;  latent variable model; 

年份：

1999

出版地：

Washington, DC, USA

总页数：

34 pp

语种：

English

摘要：

ERS research findings suggest that the more a mother knows about health and nutrition the better is the overall quality of her children's diet, for preschoolers more so than older children. We also found that a mother's years of schooling, smoking status, race, and ethnicity influence her children's diet. Our results imply that health and nutrition education may be more effective if targeted toward mothers with young children but directly toward school-age children. We assessed overall diet quality using the Healthy Eating Index, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's instrument for measuring overall diet quality incorporating 10 recommended nutritional guidelines.