Parents and other primary caregivers often use child feeding practices that are inconsistent with evidence-based recommendations for practices that would promote optimal dietary intake and healthy growth in infants and toddlers. Child feeding practices are determined in part by parents’ information behavior, which refers to whether and how individuals obtain and apply information. This chapter presents a novel conceptual model of information behavior that makes testable predictions about how individuals seek, process, and use information, influenced by their needs, motivations, capacity, and the surrounding socioecological context and information features. This conceptual model can be broadly applied across information needs. This chapter presents narrative examples of how the conceptual model applies in the context of information needs related to infant and toddler nutrition. This chapter also presents results from an empirical study of first-time parents’ information behavior that described variables and associations from the conceptual model. This chapter ends with future research directions pertaining to information seeking behavior in the areas of family resilience and early life nutrition.

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Parents’ Information Seeking and Use Regarding Infant and Toddler Nutrition Topics: A Conceptual Model and Empirical Example of Information Behavior

  • Allison Doub Hepworth,
  • Meg L. Small,
  • Timothy R. Brick

摘要

Parents and other primary caregivers often use child feeding practices that are inconsistent with evidence-based recommendations for practices that would promote optimal dietary intake and healthy growth in infants and toddlers. Child feeding practices are determined in part by parents’ information behavior, which refers to whether and how individuals obtain and apply information. This chapter presents a novel conceptual model of information behavior that makes testable predictions about how individuals seek, process, and use information, influenced by their needs, motivations, capacity, and the surrounding socioecological context and information features. This conceptual model can be broadly applied across information needs. This chapter presents narrative examples of how the conceptual model applies in the context of information needs related to infant and toddler nutrition. This chapter also presents results from an empirical study of first-time parents’ information behavior that described variables and associations from the conceptual model. This chapter ends with future research directions pertaining to information seeking behavior in the areas of family resilience and early life nutrition.