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100			_aCara Confer
245			_aParental perceptions of nutritional intake, cooking skills, and food skills among preschoolers
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520			_aObjective: To determine parents’ perceptions of cooking skills, food skills, and nutritional status of children ages 3 to 5 years. Methods: Parents of preschoolers aged 3 to 5 years completed two questionnaires, a Nutri-STEP questionnaire, assessing nutritional status, and a cooking exposure questionnaire. This parent recall questionnaire assessed cooking skills and food skills children possessed. Results: Willingness to try a new vegetable, parental confidence of child's cooking skills, total food skills possessed, and the covariates of gender, age, and ethnicity significantly predicted child dietary quality grouping p = 0.04. Conclusions and Implications: Trying new vegetables was a significant predictor of dietary behavior, with children more likely to try new vegetables demonstrating better dietary behavior (odds ratio= .43, p = 0.03). Trends showed that children with more cooking skills had better diets. Empirical data are needed through experimental designs to examine the integration of cooking skills in the home on child dietary behaviors and long-term cooking development.
654			_aCooking skill _afood skills _apreschool-age _anutrition status _aNutri-step
700			_a Diana Cuy Castellanos
773	0		_0132082 _9114107 _dCalifornia Sage Publications 2025 _tNutrition and Health _x0260-1060
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