@article{335e317a21c1485ebe95b2aabd14776e,
title = "{"}It's Like Big Mama's House{"}: Examining Extended Family Influences on the Dietary Behaviors of African American Children",
abstract = "The family environment plays an important role in influencing children's dietary behaviors. Traditionally, African American extended family members play a key role in child socialization. We examine the role of extended families in how children are socialized to adopt dietary norms. We conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 24 individuals across eight family units to elicit information regarding the influences of culture and families on children's dietary behaviors. Findings suggest that families teach children to value activities that combine quality time and enjoying food together; adults are inconsistent in how they teach children to adopt desired dietary behaviors. This work has implications for improving family-based interventions for African American children through promoting healthful behaviors that are also respectful of family dietary traditions, improving communication between adults and children, and leveraging family members as attitudinal and behavioral referents.",
keywords = "African American, dietary socialization, families",
author = "Brown, {Natasha A.} and Thornton, {Rachel L.J.} and Smith, {Katherine Clegg} and Surkan, {Pamela J.} and Levine, {David M.}",
note = "Funding Information: At the time this research was conducted, N.A. Brown was a doctoral student in the Department of Health, Behavior, and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she was supported by the Research Training Grant in Behavioral and Preventive Aspects of Heart and Vascular Disease (5T32HL007180, David Levine, PI), funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Writing of this manuscript was supported by the Center of Excellence on Race, Ethnicity, and Health Disparities Research, funded by the NIH, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (1P20MD006737– 01, PIs: Drs. Sandra C. Quinn and Stephen B. Thomas). The Childhood Neighborhood Study was funded as a pilot study of the Washington, DC-Baltimore Research Center on Child Health Disparities (5P20MD000198–10, PIs: Drs. Renee Jenkins and Dr. Tina Cheng). We would like to thank Ms. Elizabeth Gall for her feedback during the analytic process and Dr. Jonathan Ellen (PI of the Childhood Neighborhood Study) for his contributions and support of this research project. Copyright: Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1080/03670244.2013.806914",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "53",
pages = "149--170",
journal = "Ecology of Food and Nutrition",
issn = "0367-0244",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",
number = "2",
}