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Journal article
Association between maternal eating and young child feeding in a community sample
BMC pregnancy and childbirth, Vol.23(1), 470
24 Jun 2023
PMID: 37355578
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Abstract
Early childhood is a pivotal period for the development of healthy eating practices. One way to promote child health is to identify early modifiable factors that affect child eating and weight. Given the intergenerational transmission of eating behaviors, this study examined how mothers' eating behaviors were associated with child feeding practices, and whether child weight-for-length (z-WFL) moderated this relation, in a community sample.
Participants were 72 mother-child dyads. Maternal eating behaviors-emotional, external and restrained-were assessed 9-months postpartum, using the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire. Child feeding-restrictive, pressure, and concern about overeating/overweight or undereating/underweight-was measured using the Infant Feeding Questionnaire, and child z-WFL were assessed 18-months postpartum. Linear regressions were used to test the main effect of maternal eating and the interaction effect of maternal eating and child z-WFL, on child feeding practices.
Maternal restrained eating was associated with child pressure feeding, and contrarily with concerns about overeating/overweight. However, a significant interaction between child z-WFL and both maternal emotional and external eating were found with regard to concern about child undereating/underweight. Paradoxically, among children who weighed more, greater maternal emotional and greater external eating were associated with greater concern about child undereating/underweight.
In this community sample, mothers were more likely to report contradictory feeding practices and concerns, suggesting complicated relations among a mother's own eating behavior, her child's weight, and her perceptions of child eating and weight. This may indicate a need for better communication and support of infant feeding practices.
Data was collected as part of two grants (MAMAS Grant ID: HL097973-01; SEED Grant ID: HL116511-02) conducted at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). All subjects gave their informed consent for inclusion before they participated in the study. The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, and the protocol was approved by institutional review board at UCSF.
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- Title
- Association between maternal eating and young child feeding in a community sample
- Creators
- Simar Singh - Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. ss4776@drexel.eduAlana Cordeiro - Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USAElissa Epel - University of California, San FranciscoMichael Coccia - Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USABarbara Laraia - University of California, BerkeleyNancy Adler - University of California, San FranciscoNicole R Bush - University of California, San Francisco
- Publication Details
- BMC pregnancy and childbirth, Vol.23(1), 470
- Number of pages
- 11
- Grant note
- R01 HL116511 / NHLBI NIH HHS HL116511-02 / NHLBI NIH HHS HL097973-01 / NHLBI NIH HHS
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences (Psychology)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:001013857300003
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85162783691
- Other Identifier
- 991021860735104721
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