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Feasibility of parents promoting fruit-infused water to reduce preschool children's sugar-sweetened beverage consumption

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Background: Increasing water and decreasing sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption in preschoolers provide a strategy to reduce lifelong obesity risks. Aim: To determine feasibility/acceptability and examine preliminary findings of an innovative intervention for preschooler parents to promote fruit-infused water (FIW) to decrease SSB intake. Methods: Fourteen parents of preschoolers completed a pre-intervention survey, attended a presentation with a FIW demonstration/taste-testing, received pitchers/strainers, cutting boards, and FIW recipes/instructions, and received 8 supportive text messages over one month. Feasibility/acceptability was determined from analyzing parents' responses about participating. Descriptive statistics were conducted to analyze pre-/post-intervention survey data. Results: Three themes emerged: "Healthy Option Alternative"; "Feasible to Make FIW at Home"; and "Benefits for Parents". Preliminary findings from ten parents completing both pre-/post-intervention surveys indicated a decrease in preschoolers' total SSB amount/kcal intake, and an increase in parent self-efficacy and FIW knowledge/consumption. Conclusion: Preliminary findings provide valuable feasibility/acceptability information to guide a larger future study.

sugar-sweetened beveragesfruit-infused waterpreschoolobesitytext messagesparents

Susan B. Quelly、Dawn O. Eckhoff、Geraldine Luzincourt、Jeanette Garcia、Sharlene Smith

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Associate Professor and Director of the MSN Nurse Educator Program in the College of Nursing at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL, U.S.A

Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL, U.S A

Associate Instructor in the College of Nursing at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL, U.S.A

Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Sciences in the College of Health Professions and Sciences at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL, U.S.A

Assistant Professor and Director in the College of Nursing at the University of South Florida in Tampa, FL, U.S.A

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2022

10.1177/026010602210861

Nutrition and Health

Nutrition and Health

ISSN：0260-1060
年,卷(期)：2022.28(3)
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