Parental influences on children’s eating behaviour and characteristics of successful parent-focussed interventions

Mitchell, Gemma L.; Farrow, Claire; Haycraft, Emma; Meyer, Caroline

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2012.09.014

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“…Parents across the studies employed a range of feeding behaviours, some of which have been positively evaluated in the literature, such as modelling, encouragement, repeated exposure and reasonable limit setting (Jansen & Tenney, 2001;Mitchell, Farrow, Haycraft & Meyer, 2013;Wardle, Carnell, & Cooke, 2005;Peters, Parletta, Lynch & Campbell, 2014) and some of which have not, such as the use of pressure and rewards (Batsell, Brown, Ansfield, & Paschall, 2002;Birch & Fisher, 1998;Kalinowski et al, 2012;Scaglioni et al, 2008;Thompson, 2010). The balancing act carried out by parents involved a practical struggle to reconcile two disparate concepts.…”

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“…New technologies such as apps which can be loaded onto mobile devices (e.g. smartphones) are increasingly being used to address health related behaviours and while concerns exist about their unregulated content (Abroms, Padmanabhan, Thaweethai, & Phillips, 2011), apps hold significant potential as a tool for delivery of health-related interventions (Mitchell et al, 2013). This is particularly the case among low income groups who may not seek professional medical advice, but are more likely to look online for help with feeding difficulties (Brodie, Flournoy, Altman, Blendon, Benson, & Rosenbaum, 2000).…”

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“…Recent research considering the merits of effective nutrition advice has suggested that effective interventions seeking to improve child feeding and eating behaviours should be (1) group based; (2) consisting of parents from similar backgrounds; (3) tailored to be inclusive; and (4) free from overt commercial references, as this may undermine trust (Mitchell et al, 2013).…”

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Parental feeding behaviour and motivations regarding pre-school age children: A thematic synthesis of qualitative studies

Rylatt

Cartwright

2016

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Poor childhood diet is a major risk factor for disease and obesity, and parents of pre-school children are in a powerful position to influence diet for life. The technique of thematic synthesis (Thomas & Harden, 2008) was used to synthesise recent qualitative research on parental feeding of pre-school age children (18 months -6 years). The aim was to inform development of nutrition advice by gaining a comprehensive picture of parental feeding behaviours and motivations. Six key parental feeding behaviours were identified: modelling, rewards, pressure and encouragement, repeated exposure, creativity, and limiting intake.Four overarching themes regarding motivations were identified: promoting good health (balance and variety, and weight control); building positive relationships (child involvement, and parental engagement and responsiveness); practicalities and constraints (time, cost, and lack of culinary skill, and pressure and flexibility); and emotional motivations (problem avoidance, and emotional investment). Practicalities and constraints, and emotional motivations impacted more significantly on low income parents. In order to be effective,

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Parental feeding behaviour and motivations regarding pre-school age children: A thematic synthesis of qualitative studies

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2016

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“…Unless mothers feel able to act on this advice in their homes, their children's diets are unlikely to improve. This conclusion was also reached by a recent review of parent-focused interventions in children with non-clinical feeding problems, which suggested that parents need to be supported and empowered as well as educated to overcome the challenges in feeding young children (38) .…”

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Influences on the diet quality of pre-school children: importance of maternal psychological characteristics

Jarman

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Objective: To test the hypothesis that maternal psychological profiles relate to children's quality of diet. Design: Cross-sectional study. Mothers provided information on their healthrelated psychological factors and aspects of their child's mealtime environment. Children's diet quality was assessed using an FFQ from which weekly intakes of foods and a diet Z-score were calculated. A high score described children with a better quality diet. Cluster analysis was performed to assess grouping of mothers based on psychological factors. Mealtime characteristics, describing how often children ate while sitting at a table or in front of the television, their frequency of takeaway food consumption, maternal covert control and food security, and children's quality of diet were examined, according to mothers' cluster membership. Subjects: Mother-child pairs (n 324) in the Southampton Initiative for Health. Children were aged 2-5 years. Setting: Hampshire, UK. Results: Two main clusters were identified. Mothers in cluster 1 had significantly higher scores for all psychological factors than mothers in cluster 2 (all P < 0·001). Clusters were termed 'more resilient' and 'less resilient', respectively. Children of mothers in the less resilient cluster ate meals sitting at a table less often (P = 0·03) and watched more television (P = 0·01). These children had significantly poorerquality diets (β = −0·61, 95 % CI −0·82, −0·40, P ≤ 0·001). This association was attenuated, but remained significant after controlling for confounding factors that included maternal education and home/mealtime characteristics (P = 0·006). Conclusions:The study suggests that mothers should be offered psychological support as part of interventions to improve children's quality of diet.

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“…Based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV-TR; APA 2000) criteria, about 1-5% children are diagnosed with a Feeding Disorder of Infancy or Early Childhood, FD (Ostberg & Hagelin, 2011). Parents are concerned that their children are displaying behaviors such as selective eating, food refusal, food neophobia, picky eating, fussy eating, eating slowly, being less interested in food, having a small appetite, infantile anorexia, and sensory food aversion (Carruth, Ziegler, Gordon, & Barr, 2004;Marchi & Cohen, 1990;Mitchell, Farrow, Haycraft, & Meyer, 2013;Reau, Senturia, Lebailly, & Christoffel, 1996;Sanders, Patel, Le Grice, & Sheperd, 1993). Ostberg and Hagelin (2011) conducted a 6-year follow-up study and found that picky eating was the most frequent problem in children, followed by irritation or a bad temper at meal times, food refusal, and child's eating or feeding habits being a problem for the family.…”

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The Influence of Parenting Practices on Feeding Problems in Preschoolers

2015

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The aim of the study is to estimate the prevalence of feeding problems during the preschool period and to explore the associations of feeding related behaviors with parenting practices. Participants were a large community sample of N = 622 children longitudinally assessed yearly at ages 3, 4 and 5 years-old through diagnostic interview and questionnaires reported by parents. The prevalence of children who met DSM-IV criteria for feeding disorder during the follow-up was 1.6%, the amount of children who presented feeding disorder symptoms was 33.3%, those with clinical impairment due to these symptoms were 25.7% and 11.6% reported seek for professional help related to feeding problems. Logistic regressions adjusted to children's sex and other DSM-IV diagnoses different to feeding disorder showed that the dimensions of parenting more strongly related to feeding related behaviors and ACCIÓN PSICOLÓGICA, dicembre 2015, vol. 12, n. o 2, 143-154. ISSN: 1578 144 impairment due to feeding problems were poor monitoring, inconsistence practices, corporal punishment, low norms and low autonomy. Although the prevalence of preschool children who met DSM-IV criteria for feeding disorder was relatively low, the presence of feeding related behaviors (symptoms, impairment and consultation) was common during this developmental period. Parenting practices are associated to the presence of these behaviors, and so they must be considered into the prevention and intervention programs.Keywords: feeding problems; parenting; preschool. ResumenEl objetivo del estudio es estimar la prevalencia de problemas relacionados con la alimentación durante el período preescolar y explorar las asociaciones de conductas relacionadas con la alimentación con las prácticas. Se estudió una amplia muestra comunitaria de niños (N = 622), que fue evaluada anualmente de forma longitudinal a la edad de 3, 4 y 5 años, mediante entrevistas diagnós-ticas y cuestionarios contestados por sus padres. La prevalencia de niños que cumplió criterios diagnósticos DSM-IV para recibir un diagnóstico de Trastornos de la Alimentación durante el seguimiento furede 1.6%, la cantidad de niños que presentó síntomas del trastorno llegó al 33.3%, los que presentaron deterioro clínico debido a estos síntomas fueron el 25.7% y hasta un 11.6% de las familias buscó ayuda profesional relacionada con los problemas relacionados con la alimentación. Los datos, analizados mediante regresiones logísticas ajustadas por el sexo de los niños y la presencia de otros diagnós-ticos DSM-IV, mostraron que las dimensiones de estilo parental más estrechamente relacionadas con los problemas y el deterioro relacionados con la alimentación fueron la pobre supervisión, las prácticas educativas inconsistentes, el castigo corporal, la baja presencia de nomas y la escasa autonomía. Aunque la prevalencia de niños preescolares que cumplían criterios diagnósticos para el Trastorno de alimentación fue relativamente baja, la presencia de problemas relacionados con la alimentación (síntomas, deterioro ...

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Parental influences on children’s eating behaviour and characteristics of successful parent-focussed interventions

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Parental feeding behaviour and motivations regarding pre-school age children: A thematic synthesis of qualitative studies

Parental feeding behaviour and motivations regarding pre-school age children: A thematic synthesis of qualitative studies

Influences on the diet quality of pre-school children: importance of maternal psychological characteristics

The Influence of Parenting Practices on Feeding Problems in Preschoolers

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