. 2019 Sep 30;23(2):221–230. doi: 10.1017/S1368980019002489

Table 1.

Focus group questions

Specific questions with probes
1. What does eating healthfully mean to you? a. What are examples of appropriate or inappropriate food decisions? b. How do you go about making these decisions? 2. How important is it for you to eat healthfully? a. What are the consequences of not eating healthfully? 3. Have your food choices changed over time? If so, how? If not, why not? a. How have your food choices been influenced by such things as convenience foods, organic foods and household changes? 4. How important is to you that your children and grandchildren eat healthfully? a. Why might you be concerned about your children and grandchildren’s food choices? What consequences of unhealthful eating are you concerned about for your children and grandchildren? b. For example, are you concerned about the weight of your children and grandchildren? Explain. 5. Do you attempt to get other members of your family to eat healthfully? If so, how? If not, why not? 6. Who is responsible for the eating behaviours and food choices of your grandchildren – you, your spouse, your child, or your grandchild? 7. When you look after your grandchildren, what do you typically feed them? a. What does a typical snack or mealtime look like? b. If you could choose, how would you structure your grandchild’s mealtimes? c. For example, sit-down meals with the family? Meals out at a restaurant? Etc.? 8. What food traditions are you trying to pass down to your children and grandchildren? a. Is it important to you to pass down food traditions to your children and grandchildren? Why? 9. What societal factors (such as but not limited to race, ethnicity, religion, social class, gender and gender roles) or family-related factors (family dynamics, traditions, etc.) influence your food decisions? a. How much do these factors influence food traditions and decisions? 10. For intergenerational families only: In what ways does living with your children and grandchildren influence your food decisions and the eating behaviours and food decisions of your children and grandchildren?

Specific questions with probes

1.
What does eating healthfully mean to you?
- a.
  What are examples of appropriate or inappropriate food decisions?
- b.
  How do you go about making these decisions?
2.
How important is it for you to eat healthfully?
- a.
  What are the consequences of not eating healthfully?
3.
Have your food choices changed over time? If so, how? If not, why not?
- a.
  How have your food choices been influenced by such things as convenience foods, organic foods and household changes?
4.
How important is to you that your children and grandchildren eat healthfully?
- a.
  Why might you be concerned about your children and grandchildren’s food choices? What consequences of unhealthful eating are you concerned about for your children and grandchildren?
- b.
  For example, are you concerned about the weight of your children and grandchildren? Explain.
5.
Do you attempt to get other members of your family to eat healthfully? If so, how? If not, why not?
6.
Who is responsible for the eating behaviours and food choices of your grandchildren – you, your spouse, your child, or your grandchild?
7.
When you look after your grandchildren, what do you typically feed them?
- a.
  What does a typical snack or mealtime look like?
- b.
  If you could choose, how would you structure your grandchild’s mealtimes?
- c.
  For example, sit-down meals with the family? Meals out at a restaurant? Etc.?
8.
What food traditions are you trying to pass down to your children and grandchildren?
- a.
  Is it important to you to pass down food traditions to your children and grandchildren? Why?
9.
What societal factors (such as but not limited to race, ethnicity, religion, social class, gender and gender roles) or family-related factors (family dynamics, traditions, etc.) influence your food decisions?
- a.
  How much do these factors influence food traditions and decisions?
10.
For intergenerational families only: In what ways does living with your children and grandchildren influence your food decisions and the eating behaviours and food decisions of your children and grandchildren?