The influence of parents' cooking skills on the diet of school-age children

• Grant number: 14/10155-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: September 01, 2014
• End date: August 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Collective Health - Public Health
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Carlos Augusto Monteiro
• Grantee: Carla Adriano Martins
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Saúde Pública (FSP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Objective - To study the influence of parents' cooking skills on the quality of the diet consumed at home for school-age children. Method - Cross-sectional study (T1), followed by an experimental, prospective, randomized and controlled study involving an educational intervention to improve parents' cooking skills. The study population corresponds to child-parent pairs from nine from a network of private schools that provide integrated comprehensive services for students in São Paulo. The sample size was based on the minimum number of children required to evaluate the impact of the intervention: 240 in the intervention group and 240 in the control group. For the T1 five or six elementary age classes will be selected at random from each school (total initial n= ~ 1600 children). Interviews will be conducted by telephone by a trained team of interviewers, before intervention (T1), immediately after the intervention (T2) and six months after the intervention (T3). Data will be collected regarding: the children's food intake through the use of dietary recalls of the dinner of the day before the interview; parents' cooking skills; socioeconomic and demographic characteristics; frequency and characteristics of meals prepared at home; and how cooking skills were learned, using an instrument specially designed for this research. The parents' cooking skills will be described by scores. The children's diet quality will be evaluated by the total intake of calories, calorie distribution over food groups and subgroups, energy density of the meal, and nutrient content. The association between the parents' cooking skills and the children's diet quality will be analyzed using multiple linear regression analyses with and without adjustment for confounding factors. The impact of the intervention on the parents' cooking skills and the children's diet quality will be evaluated by comparisons between the intervention and control groups at times T1, T2 and T3. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

MARTINS, CARLA ADRIANO; ANDRADE, GIOVANNA CALIXTO; BRITO DE OLIVEIRA, MARIANA FERNANDES; RAUBER, FERNANDA; RIBEIRO DE CASTRO, INES RUGANI; COUTO, MARCIA THEREZA; LEVY, RENATA BERTAZZI. ``Healthy{''}, ``usual{''} and ``convenience{''} cooking practices patterns: How do they influence children's food consumption?. APPETITE, v. 158, MAR 1 2021. (14/10155-4)

MARTINS, CARLA ADRIANO; MACHADO, PRISCILA PEREIRA; DA COSTA LOUZADA, MARIA LAURA; LEVY, RENATA BERTAZZI; MONTEIRO, CARLOS AUGUSTO. Parents' cooking skills confidence reduce children's consumption of ultra-processed foods. APPETITE, v. 144, JAN 1 2020. (14/10155-4, 16/13168-5)

MARTINS, CARLA ADRIANO; ANDRADE, GIOVANNA CALIXTO; BRITO DE OLIVEIRA, MARIANA FERNANDES; RAUBER, FERNANDA; RIBEIRO DE CASTRO, INES RUGANI; COUTO, MARCIA THEREZA; LEVY, RENATA BERTAZZI. "Healthy", "usual" and "convenience" cooking practices patterns: How do they influence children's food consumption?. APPETITE, v. 158, p. 10-pg., 2021-03-01. (14/10155-4)

MARTINS, ADRIANO CARLA; MACHADO, PRISCILA PEREIRA; LOUZADA, MARIA LAURA DA COSTA; MONTEIRO, CARLOS. PARENTS' COOKING SKILLS REDUCE CHILDREN'S CONSUMPTION OF ULTRA-PROCESSED FOODS. ANNALS OF NUTRITION AND METABOLISM, v. 71, p. 2-pg., 2017-01-01. (14/10155-4)

DA CRUZ ALVES, MAIRA NATALIA; OLIVEIRA CARNEIRO, AILTON JOSE; PFRIMER, KARINA; AMADOR DOS SANTOS PESSANHA, PINHEIRO FERNANDA; DE PONTES, LOPES TATIANE; FERRIOLLI, EDUARDO. BODY MASS INDEX AND INTRAMUSCULAR FAT INFILTRATION IN FRAIL AND NON-FRAIL ELDERLY. ANNALS OF NUTRITION AND METABOLISM, v. 71, p. 2-pg., 2017-01-01. (14/10155-4)

MARTINS, CARLA ADRIANO; BARALDI, LARISSA GALASTRI; SCAGLIUSI, FERNANDA BAEZA; VILLAR, BETZABETH SLATER; MONTEIRO, CARLOS AUGUSTO. Índice de Habilidades Culinárias: desenvolvimento e avaliação de confiabilidade. REVISTA DE NUTRICAO-BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF NUTRITION, v. 32, 2019. (14/10155-4)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

MARTINS, Carla Adriano. The influence of parents cooking skills on the diet of school-age children. 2017. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Saúde Pública (FSP/CIR) São Paulo.