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Bidirectional associations between mothers' feeding practices and child eating behaviours
The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, Vol.15, pp.1-11
2018
PMCID: PMC5765660
PMID: 29325557
Abstract
This study examined bidirectional relationships between maternal feeding practices and child food responsiveness and satiety responsiveness from 2 to 5 years.
Mothers (N = 207) reported their own feeding practices and child eating behaviours using validated questionnaires at child ages 2, 3.7, and 5 years. Cross-lagged analyses were conducted to test for bidirectional effects, adjusting for child BMI z-score (based on measured weight and height) at 14 months.
Eating behaviours and feeding practices showed strong continuity across the three time points. Maternal feeding practices (higher reward for behaviour [β = 0.12, p = 0.025] and lower covert restriction [β = -0.14, p = 0.008]) were prospectively associated with higher food responsiveness. Conversely, increased child satiety responsiveness was primarily prospectively associated with mothers' feeding practices (increased structured meal timing [β = 0.11, p = 0.038], overt [β = 0.14, p = 0.010] and covert restriction [β = 0.11, p = 0.022]). The only exception was family meal setting, which was prospectively negatively associated with satiety responsiveness (β = -0.11, p = 0.035).
While maternal feeding practices and child satiety and food responsiveness show strong continuity between child age 2 and 5 years, maternal feeding practices appear to be associated with child food responsiveness over time. Conversely, child satiety responsiveness, but not food responsiveness, may also be associated with maternal feeding practices over time. These results are consistent with interventions that provide feeding advice to parents on how to respond appropriately to individual child eating behaviour phenotype.
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- Title
- Bidirectional associations between mothers' feeding practices and child eating behaviours
- Authors
- Elena Jansen (Corresponding Author) - Centre for Children's Health Research (Australia)Kate E Williams (Author) - Queensland University of TechnologyKimberley M Mallan (Author) - Australian Catholic UniversityJan M Nicholson (Author) - La Trobe UniversityLynne A Daniels (Author) - Centre for Children's Health Research (Australia)
- Publication details
- The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, Vol.15, pp.1-11
- Publisher
- BioMed Central Ltd.
- Date published
- 2018
- DOI
- 10.1186/s12966-018-0644-x
- ISSN
- 1479-5868
- PMID
- 29325557; PMC5765660
- Copyright note
- This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
- Data Availability
- Being made available via University’s website in 2017. In the interim, data can be requested from the corresponding author.
- Grant note
- AP1021065 / Australian National Health and Medical Research Council 426704 / Australian National Health and Medical Research Council
- Organisation Unit
- School of Education and Tertiary Access
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99990897102621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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