ResearchResearch and Professional BriefAway-from-Home Family Dinner Sources and Associations with Weight Status, Body Composition, and Related Biomarkers of Chronic Disease among Adolescents and Their Parents
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Methods
This research uses a cross-sectional design (baseline data only) and two samples of adolescents from the Minneapolis/St Paul, MN, area. The adolescent samples are from the Etiology of Childhood Obesity (ECHO) study and the Identifying the Determinants of Eating and Activity (IDEA) study, two etiological, longitudinal studies examining factors that may be related to unhealthy weight gain in youth. Identical measurement protocols between studies allowed us to combine these two samples and
Results and Discussion
Seven hundred twenty-three adolescent/parent dyads participated. The adolescent sample (mean age=14.7 years, standard deviation [SD]=0.1 years) was equally split between males and females while most parents (79%) were female. Parents' average age was 45.8 years (SD=0.2) and 64% were college graduates. Most parents (92.5%) and adolescents (82.3%) were white. Overweight/obese prevalence was 25.6% for adolescents and 56.3% for parents (mean BMI=22.1 [SD=0.2] and 27.3 [SD=0.2], respectively). About
Conclusions
Present study findings indicate that the odds of overweight/obesity are considerably greater when families report at least one weekly away-from-home dinner purchase. Mean percent body fat and CVD biomarkers are also considerably greater with weekly purchases of family dinner from fast-food restaurants and takeout sources. Future research should investigate these associations with an ethnically and demographically diverse sample of families using validated measures and a prospective,
J. A. Fulkerson is an associate professor, School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
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J. A. Fulkerson is an associate professor, School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
M. Y. Kubik is an associate professor, School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
K. Farbakhsh is a senior research fellow, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
L. Lytle is a professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
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