TY - JOUR

T1 - Impact of childhood experience and adult well-being on eating preferences and behaviours

AU - Russell, Simon J

AU - Hughes, Karen

AU - Bellis, Mark A

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PY - 2016/1/7

Y1 - 2016/1/7

N2 - Objectives To examine the relative contribution of childhood experience, measured by childhood violence and childhood happiness, and adult well-being on adult eating preferences and behaviours, independent of proximal factors such as current deprivation. Design A cross-sectional, stratified, randomised sample survey using retrospective measures of childhood violence and happiness and self-reported measures of current well-being. Setting The North West Region of England between September 2012 and March 2013. Participants Individuals aged 18–95-year-olds from randomly selected households (participation was successful for 90% of eligible households and 78% of the total visited addresses; n=11 243). Outcomes Dichotomised measures for preference of healthy foods or ‘feel good’ foods and low or high daily fruit and vegetable consumption. Results After correcting for demographics, combined categories for childhood experience and dichotomised measures of adult well-being were found to be significantly related to adult food preferences and eating behaviours. Participants with unhappy and violent childhoods compared to those with happy and non-violent childhoods had adjusted ORs (95% CI, significance) of 2.67 (2.15 to 3.06, p

AB - Objectives To examine the relative contribution of childhood experience, measured by childhood violence and childhood happiness, and adult well-being on adult eating preferences and behaviours, independent of proximal factors such as current deprivation. Design A cross-sectional, stratified, randomised sample survey using retrospective measures of childhood violence and happiness and self-reported measures of current well-being. Setting The North West Region of England between September 2012 and March 2013. Participants Individuals aged 18–95-year-olds from randomly selected households (participation was successful for 90% of eligible households and 78% of the total visited addresses; n=11 243). Outcomes Dichotomised measures for preference of healthy foods or ‘feel good’ foods and low or high daily fruit and vegetable consumption. Results After correcting for demographics, combined categories for childhood experience and dichotomised measures of adult well-being were found to be significantly related to adult food preferences and eating behaviours. Participants with unhappy and violent childhoods compared to those with happy and non-violent childhoods had adjusted ORs (95% CI, significance) of 2.67 (2.15 to 3.06, p

KW - Adolescent

KW - Adult

KW - Adult Survivors of Child Abuse

KW - Aged

KW - Aged, 80 and over

KW - Child

KW - Child Abuse

KW - Cross-Sectional Studies

KW - Diet

KW - England

KW - Feeding Behavior

KW - Female

KW - Food Preferences

KW - Happiness

KW - Humans

KW - Male

KW - Middle Aged

KW - Odds Ratio

KW - Parent-Child Relations

KW - Quality of Life

KW - Retrospective Studies

KW - Surveys and Questionnaires

KW - Young Adult

KW - Journal Article

U2 - 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-007770

DO - 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-007770

M3 - Article

C2 - 26743696

VL - 6

SP - e007770

JO - BMJ Open

JF - BMJ Open

SN - 2044-6055

IS - 1

ER -