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Secular trends in family dinner frequency among adolescents

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Research Notes, January 2016
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Title
Secular trends in family dinner frequency among adolescents
Published in
BMC Research Notes, January 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13104-016-1856-2
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Kathryn Walton, Ken P. Kleinman, Sheryl L. Rifas-Shiman, Nicholas J. Horton, Matthew W. Gillman, Alison E. Field, S. Bryn Austin, Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, Jess Haines

Abstract

Eating meals, particularly dinner, with family members has been found to be associated with improved dietary intake, lower prevalence of disordered eating behaviors, lower levels of substance abuse, and improved academic outcomes among adolescents. Limited research has examined how the frequency of family meals has changed over time. The objective of this study was to examine secular trends in family dinner frequency over a 12-year period using a large, nation-wide sample of adolescents. Using data from two cohorts of the Growing up Today study (GUTS; n = 18,075 observations for 14,79,714 and 15 year olds), we compared family dinner frequency among 14-15-year-olds in 1996 (GUTS1) through 2008 (GUTS2) and rate of change in family dinner frequency from 1996 to 1998 (GUTS1) and 2004-2008 (GUTS2). We fit logistic models using generalized estimating equations with independence working correlation and empirical variance to account for correlation within individual and between siblings. From 1996 to 2008, the number of family dinners per week among males decreased from 5.3 to 4.6 (p = 0.04) and among females from 5.0 to 4.4 (p = 0.03). We found that the rate of decline in frequency of family meals was consistent in GUTS1 (1996-1998) and GUTS2 (2004-2008) among both males and females. From 1996 to 2008, frequency of family dinners decreased among adolescents. Future research should explore reasons for this decline as well as strategies to increase family meals among adolescents.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 11 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 16%
Student > Bachelor 7 13%
Researcher 5 9%
Professor 3 5%
Other 9 16%
Unknown 11 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 10 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 9 16%
Psychology 7 13%
Social Sciences 6 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 7%
Other 4 7%
Unknown 15 27%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 43. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 April 2016.
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