Mother-child Agreement on the Child's Past Food Exposure
published online 22 January 2010.
Abstract
Objective
To assess mother-child agreement on the child's past food exposure, and factors affecting response discrepancy.
Methods
Twelve- to 14-year-old children and their mothers (n = 78) in an urban community, a rural community, and 2 orthodontic clinics completed a 69-item food questionnaire to determine mother-child level of agreement on the child's past consumption frequency; response discrepancies; the frequencies that the mother cooked for and ate together with her child; food types; mother-child pair effect; and food item effect.
Results
Sixty-eight percent of food items had moderate to good agreement (Kqw ≥ 0.41). Rural pairs had lower odds of producing response discrepancy (odds ratio = 0.55). Variances of the mother-child pair and food item random effects were 0.87 and 0.08, respectively.
Conclusions and Implications
The child's past food exposure recall by the mother and the child had moderate to good agreement, especially among rural mother-child pairs. Mother-child disagreement was not affected by the food items.
1Department of Preventive Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Prince of Songkla University, Hatyai, Songkhla, Thailand
2Epidemiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Hatyai, Songkhla, Thailand
Address for Correspondence: Udom Thongudomporn, DDS, MDSc, Department of Preventive Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Prince of Songkla University, Hatyai, Songkhla, Thailand, 90110; Phone/Fax: +66 74 429875
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