Longitudinal Associations between Food Parenting Practices and Dietary Intake in Children: The Feel4Diabetes Study Flores Barrantes, Paloma González Gil, Esther M. Prospective Home food availability Parental modelling Use of food as reward Permissiveness European children Food parenting practices (FPPs) have an important role in shaping children’s dietary behaviors. This study aimed to investigate cross-sectional and longitudinal associations over a twoyear follow-up between FPP and dietary intake and compliance with current recommendations in 6- to 11-year-old European children. A total of 2967 parent-child dyads from the Feel4Diabetes study, a randomized controlled trial of a school and community-based intervention, (50.4% girls and 93.5% mothers) were included. FPPs assessed were: (1) home food availability; (2) parental role modeling of fruit intake; (3) permissiveness; (4) using food as a reward. Children’s dietary intake was assessed through a parent-reported food frequency questionnaire. In regression analyses, the strongest cross-sectional associations were observed between home availability of 100% fruit juice and corresponding intake (β = 0.492 in girls and β = 0.506 in boys, p < 0.001), and between parental role modeling of fruit intake and children’s fruit intake (β = 0.431 in girls and β = 0.448 in boys, p < 0.001). In multilevel logistic regression models, results indicated that improvements in positive FPPs over time were mainly associated with higher odds of compliance with healthy food recommendations, whereas a decrease in negative FPP over time was associated with higher odds of complying with energy-dense/nutrient-poor food recommendations. Improving FPPs could be an effective way to improve children’s dietary intake. 2021-04-15T06:27:19Z 2021-04-15T06:27:19Z 2021 journal article Flores-Barrantes, P.; Iglesia, I.; Cardon, G.; Willems, R.; Schwarz, P.; Timpel, P.; Kivelä, J.; Wikström, K.; Iotova, V.; Tankova, T.; et al. Longitudinal Associations between Food Parenting Practices and Dietary Intake in Children: The Feel4Diabetes-Study. Nutrients 2021, 13, 1298. https://doi. org/10.3390/nu13041298 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/67956 10.3390/nu13041298 eng eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/643708 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ open access Atribución 3.0 España MDPI