Diverse Food Items Are Similarly Categorized by 8- to 13-Year-Old Children

Autor/inn/en	Beltran, Alicia; Knight Sepulveda, Karina; Watson, Kathy; Baranowski, Tom; Baranowski, Janice; Islam, Noemi; Missaghian, Mariam
Titel	Diverse Food Items Are Similarly Categorized by 8- to 13-Year-Old Children
Quelle	In: Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 40 (2008) 3, S.149-159 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1499-4046
DOI	10.1016/j.jneb.2008.01.002
Schlagwörter	Search Strategies; Nutrition Instruction; Computer Uses in Education; Early Adolescents; Preadolescents; Children; Food; Classification; Eating Habits + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Suchstrategie; Nutrition education; Ernährungserziehung; Computernutzung; Pre-adolescence; Präadoleszenz; Child; Kind; Kinder; Lebensmittel; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Ernährungsgewohnheit; Essgewohnheit
Abstract	Objective: Assess how 8- to 13-year-old children categorized and labeled food items for possible use as part of a food search strategy in a computerized 24-hour dietary recall. Design: A set of 62 cards with pictures and names of food items from 18 professionally defined food groups was sorted by each child into piles of similar food items. Setting: Participants attended the Children's Nutrition Research Center in the summer 2006. Participants: 148 8- to 13-year-old children (132 English speaking, 16 primarily Spanish speaking). Main Outcome Measures: Sorting of food items into common groupings and their names. Analyses: Robinson matrices for identification of clusters of food items. Results: Children created on average 11.1 ([plus or minus] 4.4) piles with 5.4 ([plus or minus] 4.9) cards per pile. Robinson matrix clusters captured 92.4% of the variance in the sorting of food cards. No substantial differences in Robinson clustering were detected across subcategories for each of the demographic characteristics. The label names provided by the children were most frequently categorized as "Taxonomic-Professional" (42.5%), such as meat, fruit, and drinks; or "Script" (26.4%), such as breakfast food, desserts, and snacks. Conclusion and Implications: Children categorized food items into similar clusters but used diverse names to label them. These categories may be used to facilitate food search for researchers in a computerized 24-hour dietary recall for children in this age group. (Author).
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