Parental food consumption and diet quality and its association with children’s food consumption in families at high risk of type 2 diabetes: the Feel4Diabetes-study Mahmood, Lubna González Gil, Esther M. Food consumption Diet quality Type 2 diabetes Parents Children Acknowledgments: The authors would like to thank the members of the Feel4Diabetes-study group (refer to online Supplementary file 1). We are also grateful for all participating schools, parents and children participated in this study and all those who were involved in data collection and processing. This study was funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 under grant agreement n° 643708. Financial support: The Feel4Diabetes-study was funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement n° 643708. The funding body did not have any role in the design of the study and collection, analysis and interpretation of data and in writing the manuscript. The content of this article reflects only the authors’ views and the European Community is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein. Conflict of interests: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interests/ competing interests. Authorship: L.M. conducted the statistical analyses and wrote the manuscript; Y.M. coordinated the study; L.A.M., Y.M., G.C., K.M. and T.T. participated in the design of the study; E.M.G.G. and L.A.M. critically revised the manuscript and supervised all procedures; P.F.B., C.M., G.C., R.W., V.I. and N.U. provided essential intellectual input; all authors have read, revised and approved the final version of the manuscript. Ethics of human subject participation: Feel4Diabetes-study followed the conventions of the Council of Europe on human rights and biomedicine and the Declaration of Helsinki. Ethical approval was provided by the Ethical Committees (i.e. Universities and research institutions) of all participating European countries including Spain (ethical approval code: CP03/2016), Greece (code: 46/3-4-2015), Finland (code:174/1801/2015), Belgium (code: B670201524237), Bulgaria (code: 52/10-3-201r) and Hungary (code: 20095/2016/EKU). All parents were informed about the purpose of the study, and they signed a written informed consent for their participation, which gave them the chance to withdraw from the study at any point. For supplementary material/s referred to in this article, please visit https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980022002245 Objective: To examine the parental food consumption and diet quality and its associations with children’s consumption in families at high risk for developing type 2 diabetes mellitus across Europe. Also, to compare food frequency consumption among parents and children from high-risk families to the European Dietary guidelines/recommendations. Design: Cross-sectional study using Feel4diabetes FFQ. Setting: Families completed FFQ and anthropometric measures were obtained. Linear regression analyses were applied to investigate the relations between parental food consumption and diet quality and their children’s food consumption after consideration of potential confounders. Participants: 2095 European families (74·6 % mothers, 50·9 % girls). The participants included parent and one child, aged 6–8 years. Results: Parental food consumption was significantly associated with children’s intake from the same food groups among boys and girls. Most parents and children showed under-consumption of healthy foods according to the European Dietary Guidelines. Parental diet quality was positively associated with children’s intake of ‘fruit’ (boys: β = 0·233, P < 0·001; girls: β = 0·134, P < 0·05) and ‘vegetables’ (boys: β = 0·177, P < 0·01; girls: β = 0·234, P < 0·001) and inversely associated with their ‘snacks’ consumption (boys: β = –0·143, P < 0·05; girls: β = –0·186, P < 0·01). Conclusion: The present study suggests an association between parental food consumption and diet quality and children’s food intake. More in-depth studies and lifestyle interventions that include both parents and children are therefore recommended for future research. 2022-11-29T10:35:27Z 2022-11-29T10:35:27Z 2022-10-11 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Mahmood, L., Moreno, L., Flores-Barrantes, P., Mavrogianni, C., Schwarz, P., Makrilakis, K., . . . Gonzalez-Gil, E. (2022). Parental food consumption and diet quality and its association with children’s food consumption in families at high risk of type 2 diabetes: The Feel4Diabetes-study. Public Health Nutrition, 25(12), 3344-3355. [doi:10.1017/S1368980022002245] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/78169 10.1017/S1368980022002245 eng info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/643708 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 4.0 Internacional Cambridge University Press