Food hiding and weight control behaviors among ethnically diverse, overweight adolescents. Associations with parental food restriction, food monitoring, and dissatisfaction with adolescent body shape

Den Yelle Baete Kenyon; Jayne A. Fulkerson; Harsohena Kaur

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2008.10.004

Food hiding and weight control behaviors among ethnically diverse, overweight adolescents. Associations with parental food restriction, food monitoring, and dissatisfaction with adolescent body shape

Den Yelle Baete Kenyon, Jayne A. Fulkerson, Harsohena Kaur

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The present study aims to extend previous research conducted with children by examining associations between parental behaviors (food restriction, food monitoring) and parental perceptions (dissatisfaction with adolescent body shape) with adolescent behaviors (food hiding and weight control behaviors) among an ethnically diverse sample of overweight adolescents. Survey data were collected from overweight adolescents and their parents/guardians (n = 116 dyads) at an urban Midwest adolescent health clinic. Adjusting for parent and adolescent demographic characteristics, logistic regression analyses revealed a significant positive association between parental food restriction and adolescent food hiding. No significant associations were found between dissatisfaction with adolescent body shape or parental food monitoring and adolescent food hiding and adolescent weight control behaviors when controlling for demographic factors. Interventions with parents of overweight adolescents should focus on helping parents talk with their adolescents about weight concerns in a non-judgmental way and teaching parents strategies to both create a healthful home food environment and guide and support their adolescents to lose weight in a healthful manner.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	266-272
Number of pages	7
Journal	Appetite
Volume	52
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2008.10.004
State	Published - Apr 2009

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Funding support was awarded to the first author from the Adolescent Health Protection Research Training Program (School of Nursing, University of Minnesota) grant number T01 DP000112 (PI: Bearinger) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC.

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Adolescents
Dissatisfaction with adolescent body shape
Food hiding
Food monitoring
Food restriction
Overweight
Parent feeding practices
Parent food behaviors
Weight control behaviors

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Food hiding and weight control behaviors among ethnically diverse, overweight adolescents. Associations with parental food restriction, food monitoring, and dissatisfaction with adolescent body shape. / Kenyon, Den Yelle Baete; Fulkerson, Jayne A.; Kaur, Harsohena.
In: Appetite, Vol. 52, No. 2, 04.2009, p. 266-272.

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