Mothers' DASH diet adherence and food purchases after week-long episodic future thinking intervention.

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Kelseanna Hollis-HansenLeonard H Epstein

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Prospection has helped participants forego the temptation to buy and eat higher calorie nutrient poor foods in favor of buying and eating fewer calories and healthier macronutrient profiles in laboratory tasks and brief field studies. This pilot study examines whether episodic future thinking (EFT) improves mothers' dietary behavior and food purchasing over a longer 7-10-day period. The study utilized a 2 × 2 factorial design with mothers (N = 60) randomized to EFT or standardized episodic thinking (SET) crossed with dietary approaches to stop hypertension (DASH) diet education or a food safety education control. Participants listened to their cues (e.g., recordings of themselves imagining a future event or recalling a past episode) using a mobile ecological momentary intervention (EMI) tool and returned to complete a follow-up dietary recall and submit food receipts. Results showed diets of mothers in the EFT groups became more concordant with the DASH diet (ηp2 = 0.08, p < .05) than mothers in the SET group. When considering food purchases for the family, there was an EFT effect on milligrams of sodium purchased (ηp2 = 0.07, p < .05) and a trend towards a decrease in grams of fat purchased (ηp2 = 0.06, p = .06), however, thes...Continue Reading

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