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JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC GASTROENTEROLOGY AND NUTRITION
Volume 55, Issue 4, Pages 408-411Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/MPG.0b013e318259aee6
Keywords
child; dietary intake; food; obesity intervention
Funding
- Hunter Medical Research Institute
- National Health and Medical Research Council Career Development Fellowship
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Fathers have not been exclusively targeted in family-based lifestyle programmes. The aim was to determine whether dietary intakes of fathers and children can be improved, following an intervention targeting fathers. Overweight and obese fathers (n = 50, 21-65 years, body mass index [mean +/- standard deviation] 33.3 +/- 4.1) and their children (5-12 years) were recruited. Dietary intake was assessed at baseline and 6 months (n = 35) by food frequency questionnaire. Linear mixed models determined differences by time. Fathers significantly reduced portion size (P = 0.03) but not energy intakes, whereas children reduced energy intakes (kJ) (P = 0.02). There is an opportunity to target fathers as to improve child intakes.
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