Parental nutrition knowledge and attitudes as predictors of 5-6-year-old children's healthy food knowledge

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1284-1290

  Zarnowiecki, Dorota ^a   Sinn, Natalie ^a   Petkov, John ^a   Dollman, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Nutrition knowledge; Parents; Socio economic status; Young children

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; HEALTH FOOD; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; PARENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; FOOD PREFERENCES; HEALTH FOOD; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; PARENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84863325093     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980011003259     Document Type: Article

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