Quantifying parental preferences for interventions designed to improve home food preparation and home food environments during early childhood

摘要: Though preparing healthy food at home is a critical health promotion habit, few interventions have aimed to improve parental cooking skills and behaviors. We sought understand parents' preferences priorities regarding preparation practices environments during early childhood. administered discrete choice experiment using maximum difference scaling. Eighty English-speaking parents of 1-4 year-old children rated the relative importance potential attributes environments. performed latent class analysis identify subgroups with similar tested for differences between subgroups. Participants were mostly white or black 21-45 women whose prevalence overweight/obesity mirrored general population. Latent revealed three distinct groups intervention content: group, focused on nutrition healthier food; child persuasion convincing toddlers eat home-cooked creative without recipes, meal planning, time-saving strategies. Younger, lower income, 1-parent households comprised while older, higher 2-parent group (p < 0.05). The was more varied regard age, household structure but cooked dinner regularly, unlike other two Discrete experiments scaling can be employed design tailor change Segmenting diverse target population by needs enables tailoring optimization future practices. Such are important creating preventing obesity starting from