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Associations between Child Mental Well-Being or Conflicts during Mealtime and Picky Eating Behaviour
Pickiness is an eating behavior that many families with young children face. Having joint family meals may impact the child’s pickiness, for instance by influencing their willingness to try novel foods. Moreover, picky children have been shown to display greater emotionality. The aim of this study w...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8197404/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34070271 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18115621 |
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author | Lepinioti, Maria Specht, Ina Olmer Rohde, Jeanett Friis Stougaard, Maria Händel, Mina Nicole Olsen, Nanna Julie Heitmann, Berit Lilienthal |
author_facet | Lepinioti, Maria Specht, Ina Olmer Rohde, Jeanett Friis Stougaard, Maria Händel, Mina Nicole Olsen, Nanna Julie Heitmann, Berit Lilienthal |
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description | Pickiness is an eating behavior that many families with young children face. Having joint family meals may impact the child’s pickiness, for instance by influencing their willingness to try novel foods. Moreover, picky children have been shown to display greater emotionality. The aim of this study was to investigate if children’s mental well-being and parent-reported conflicts during mealtime were associated with pickiness among obesity-prone children. Data was obtained from the baseline examination of the Healthy Start intervention study, the Danish Medical Birth registry and the Danish Health Visitor’s Child Health Database, and included 635 children aged 2–6 years that were all at high risk for becoming overweight later in life. Children’s mental well-being was measured by the strengths and difficulties questionnaire. Crude and adjusted ordinal logistic regressions were used to investigate the cross-sectional associations. Children had a higher odds associated with changing from a category of less pickiness to a category of more pickiness for each one point higher SDQ score (ORadj. = 1.35, 95% CI = 1.14; 1.61) and lower odds (ORadj. = 0.57, 95% CI = 0.38; 0.86) associated with changing pickiness category towards more pickiness for each one point higher SDQ prosocial score. Moreover, children with conflicts during mealtime had higher odds of being in a worse pickiness category compared to children without conflicts (ORadj. = 3.37, 95% CI = 2.27; 5.01). This study showed that among obesity-prone children, behavioral problems, as well as conflicts during mealtime, were associated with more picky behaviors. Further longitudinal studies are needed to confirm the findings, as are studies including general child population subsets. |
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spelling | pubmed-81974042021-06-13 Associations between Child Mental Well-Being or Conflicts during Mealtime and Picky Eating Behaviour Lepinioti, Maria Specht, Ina Olmer Rohde, Jeanett Friis Stougaard, Maria Händel, Mina Nicole Olsen, Nanna Julie Heitmann, Berit Lilienthal Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Pickiness is an eating behavior that many families with young children face. Having joint family meals may impact the child’s pickiness, for instance by influencing their willingness to try novel foods. Moreover, picky children have been shown to display greater emotionality. The aim of this study was to investigate if children’s mental well-being and parent-reported conflicts during mealtime were associated with pickiness among obesity-prone children. Data was obtained from the baseline examination of the Healthy Start intervention study, the Danish Medical Birth registry and the Danish Health Visitor’s Child Health Database, and included 635 children aged 2–6 years that were all at high risk for becoming overweight later in life. Children’s mental well-being was measured by the strengths and difficulties questionnaire. Crude and adjusted ordinal logistic regressions were used to investigate the cross-sectional associations. Children had a higher odds associated with changing from a category of less pickiness to a category of more pickiness for each one point higher SDQ score (ORadj. = 1.35, 95% CI = 1.14; 1.61) and lower odds (ORadj. = 0.57, 95% CI = 0.38; 0.86) associated with changing pickiness category towards more pickiness for each one point higher SDQ prosocial score. Moreover, children with conflicts during mealtime had higher odds of being in a worse pickiness category compared to children without conflicts (ORadj. = 3.37, 95% CI = 2.27; 5.01). This study showed that among obesity-prone children, behavioral problems, as well as conflicts during mealtime, were associated with more picky behaviors. Further longitudinal studies are needed to confirm the findings, as are studies including general child population subsets. MDPI 2021-05-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8197404/ /pubmed/34070271 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18115621 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Lepinioti, Maria Specht, Ina Olmer Rohde, Jeanett Friis Stougaard, Maria Händel, Mina Nicole Olsen, Nanna Julie Heitmann, Berit Lilienthal Associations between Child Mental Well-Being or Conflicts during Mealtime and Picky Eating Behaviour |
title | Associations between Child Mental Well-Being or Conflicts during Mealtime and Picky Eating Behaviour |
title_full | Associations between Child Mental Well-Being or Conflicts during Mealtime and Picky Eating Behaviour |
title_fullStr | Associations between Child Mental Well-Being or Conflicts during Mealtime and Picky Eating Behaviour |
title_full_unstemmed | Associations between Child Mental Well-Being or Conflicts during Mealtime and Picky Eating Behaviour |
title_short | Associations between Child Mental Well-Being or Conflicts during Mealtime and Picky Eating Behaviour |
title_sort | associations between child mental well-being or conflicts during mealtime and picky eating behaviour |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8197404/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34070271 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18115621 |
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