TY - JOUR
T1 - Reported Intergenerational Transmission of Parent Weight Talk and Links with Child Health and Wellbeing
AU - Berge, Jerica M
AU - Hazzard, Vivienne M
AU - Trofholz, Amanda C
AU - Hochgraf, Anna K
AU - Zak-Hunter, Lisa
AU - Miller, Laura
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2024/7
Y1 - 2024/7
N2 - Objectives: To examine if intergenerational transmission of parent weight talk occurs, the contextual factors prompting weight talk, and whether parent weight talk is associated with child weight, dietary intake, psychosocial outcomes, and food parenting practices. Study design: Children aged 5-9 years and their families (n = 1307) from 6 racial and ethnic groups (African-American, Hispanic, Hmong, Native American, Somali/Ethiopian, White) were recruited for a longitudinal cohort study through primary care clinics in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota from 2016 through 2019. Parents filled out surveys at 2 time points, 18 months apart. Adjusted regression models examined associations of interest. Results: Intergenerational transmission of parent weight talk was observed. In addition, significant associations were found between parent engagement in weight talk and higher weight status and poorer psychosocial outcomes in children 18 months later. Parent engagement in weight talk was also associated with more restrictive food parenting practices 18 months later. Conclusions: Parents’ exposure to weight talk as children increased the likelihood of engaging in weight talk with their own children and had harmful associations over time with parent restrictive feeding practices, child weight, and psychosocial wellbeing in children. Health care providers may want to consider both modeling positive health-focused conversations and educating parents about the potential harmful and long-lasting consequences of engaging in weight talk with their children.
AB - Objectives: To examine if intergenerational transmission of parent weight talk occurs, the contextual factors prompting weight talk, and whether parent weight talk is associated with child weight, dietary intake, psychosocial outcomes, and food parenting practices. Study design: Children aged 5-9 years and their families (n = 1307) from 6 racial and ethnic groups (African-American, Hispanic, Hmong, Native American, Somali/Ethiopian, White) were recruited for a longitudinal cohort study through primary care clinics in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota from 2016 through 2019. Parents filled out surveys at 2 time points, 18 months apart. Adjusted regression models examined associations of interest. Results: Intergenerational transmission of parent weight talk was observed. In addition, significant associations were found between parent engagement in weight talk and higher weight status and poorer psychosocial outcomes in children 18 months later. Parent engagement in weight talk was also associated with more restrictive food parenting practices 18 months later. Conclusions: Parents’ exposure to weight talk as children increased the likelihood of engaging in weight talk with their own children and had harmful associations over time with parent restrictive feeding practices, child weight, and psychosocial wellbeing in children. Health care providers may want to consider both modeling positive health-focused conversations and educating parents about the potential harmful and long-lasting consequences of engaging in weight talk with their children.
KW - dietary intake
KW - food parenting
KW - obesity
KW - psychosocial wellbeing
KW - weight conversations
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jpeds.2024.114012
DO - 10.1016/j.jpeds.2024.114012
M3 - Article
C2 - 38494088
AN - SCOPUS:85190149025
SN - 0022-3476
VL - 270
JO - Journal of Pediatrics
JF - Journal of Pediatrics
M1 - 114012
ER -