Children's pester power a future target for interventions

Date:
August 6, 2020
Source:
Elsevier
Summary:
Children's pester power may contribute to improvements in their
family's food environments. A new study highlights the potential
for children to influence food consumption and habits at home.



FULL STORY ========================================================================== Children's pester power may contribute to improvements in their family's
food environments. A new study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, published by Elsevier, highlights the potential for children
to influence food consumption and habits at home.


========================================================================== Researchers from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and
Louisiana Tech University studied classrooms that delivered weekly
Together, We Inspire Healthy Eating (WISE) lessons at seven Head Start
sites across two states in the southern United States. The study
demonstrated that children's pester power explained a significant
portion of the variance in the residual change of children's dietary
intake and parenting practices after one school year of exposure to the
WISE intervention.

"The more pester power that parents were exposed to from their children,
the greater we saw changes in the desired direction for intake of fruits
and vegetables and also supportive parenting practices," said lead study
author Taren Swindle, PhD, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little
Rock, AR, USA.

"It means that children's influence on their homes may be an
underdeveloped potential target for future interventions." The pester
power of children is well documented in marketing and advertising research
and is increasingly being considered in regard to the nutritional habits
and obesogenic environments of children. Future studies can provide
insight into which components of educational programs specifically
predict successful pester power.

"I like to think of this as hypothesis-generating work. It suggests a
really promising area for future exploration," Prof. Swindle said.


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========================================================================== Journal Reference:
1. Taren Swindle, Nicole M. McBride, Audra Staley, Collin A. Phillips,
Julie
M. Rutledge, Janna R. Martin, Leanne Whiteside-Mansell. Pester
Power: Examining Children's Influence as an Active Intervention
Ingredient.

Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2020; 52 (8): 801 DOI:
10.1016/j.jneb.2020.06.002 ==========================================================================

Link to news story: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200806092433.htm

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