Participants self - reported their intake of sugar sweetened beverages, including soda and fruit drinks, using items from the Youth /
Adolescent Food Frequency Questionnaire [51].
Not exact matches
• Reduce dependence upon, and consumption of, less healthy
food options • Reduce the
frequency of eating out • Increase consumption of healthier
foods • Help children and
adolescents develop positive emotional and physical health • Build family cohesion
At 3 months, a subset of 121
adolescent mothers reported on their infant's intake through a
food frequency questionnaire.
Slightly more than one fifth of the
adolescent mothers (22 %) reported that they had breastfed their infants at least once, and 13 % were breastfeeding at the time of the
food frequency questionnaire, in combination with formula feeding.
When infants were 3 months of age, we conducted a
food frequency questionnaire to test the hypothesis that the
adolescent mothers in the intervention group would be more likely to adhere to feeding guidelines of limiting their infants» intake to breast milk, formula, or water for the first 4 to 6 months of life, compared with mothers in the control group.