SAES-422 Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report

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Status: Approved

Basic Information

Project No. and Title: W2003 : How to motivate parents to promote intake of calcium rich foods among early adolescents
Period Covered: 10/01/2008 to 09/01/2009
Date of Report: 02/22/2010
Annual Meeting Dates: 11/18/2009 to 11/21/2009

Christine Bruhn-University of Callifornia-Davis, Marla Reicks-University of Minnesota, Mary Clusky-Oregon State, Carolyn Gunther-Ohio State Univeristy, Beth Olson-Michigan State University, Susan Welsh-USDA NIFA, Siew Sun Won-Utah State University, Suzie Goodell-North Carolina State University, Latha Devareddy-University of Arkansas, Stephanie Jensen-University of California-Davis graduate student, Scottie Misner-University of Arizona, Rickelle Richards-Brigham Young University, Rachel Novotny-University of Hawaii.

Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

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Accomplishments

Short-term Outcomes: Identify those factors that predict household characteristics and parental practices that influence parents to adopt behaviors that result in higher intake of calcium rich foods. Outputs: Data from the previous research project was entered, verified, and statistical analysis completed. Activities: Teams were identified to prepare manuscripts based upon data collected from almost 600 parent-child pairs. Milestones: Scripts to explore key parental drivers were developed. These will be pilot tested in the next project period, revised if necessary, and completed. Writing teams will submit manuscripts for review.

Impacts

Several parental psychosocial factors were found to be significantly associated with calcium intake among early adolescents and their parents. These included parent‘s expectations for child‘s intake of beverages and the availability of calcium rich foods. Parents calcium intakes were significantly associated with the parent‘s perception of the importance of calcium sources for children, parental encouragement of the consumption of CRF, and parental role modeling to consume CRF.

Publications

No new publications during this period.

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