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Content and validity of claims made about food parenting practices in United Kingdom online news articles
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Patel, Chloe, Walasek, Lukasz, Karasouli, Eleni and Meyer, Caroline (2022) Content and validity of claims made about food parenting practices in United Kingdom online news articles. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (9). e5053. doi:10.3390/ijerph19095053 ISSN 1660-4601.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095053
Abstract
The objective of this study was to qualitatively summarise the content of online news articles pertaining to food parenting practices and determine whether this content is substantiated by the scientific literature. News article data were identified and collected from United Kingdom online news published during 2010−2017 period using the News on the Web corpus. A coding framework was used to categorise the content of news articles to identify information related to food parenting practices. Then, claims made about food parenting practices were extracted from relevant news articles. Each claim was evaluated to determine the extent to which any claims were supported by the available scientific research evidence. The study identified ten claims across thirty-two relevant online news articles. Claims made across the news articles reported on the following food parenting practices: food restrictions, food-based threats and bribes, pressure to eat, use of food to control negative emotions, food availability, food preparation, and meal and snack routines. Eight out of the ten claims identified did not refer to scientific research evidence. News articles frequently lacked detail and information to explain to readers why and how the use of certain food parenting practices could have a lasting impact on children’s health outcomes. Considering the influence that news media has on parents, the reporting of food parenting practices in news articles should aim to provide a balanced view of the published scientific evidence and recognise the difficulties and barriers that prevent the use of helpful and healthy food parenting practices. The study results in this paper could be used to aid and structure of the dissemination of food parenting practice research findings in the media, inform public health education to influence perceptions of unhelpful food parenting practices, and promote parental use of responsive food parenting practices.
Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics T Technology > TX Home economics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Clinical Trials Unit Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group) |
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SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | |||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Children -- Nutrition -- Great Britain, Parenting -- Health aspects -- Great Britain, Food -- Social aspects, Online social networks, Social media, Electronic newspapers, News Web sites, Food habits -- Great Britain, Food preferences in children -- Great Britain, Online journalism | |||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | |||||||||
Publisher: | M D P I AG | |||||||||
ISSN: | 1660-4601 | |||||||||
Official Date: | 21 April 2022 | |||||||||
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Volume: | 19 | |||||||||
Number: | 9 | |||||||||
Article Number: | e5053 | |||||||||
DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph19095053 | |||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | |||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 10 June 2022 | |||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 10 June 2022 | |||||||||
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