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Associations of parental feeding practices with children’s eating behaviors and food preferences: a Chinese cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Childhood inadequate eating behaviors contribute to the epidemic of obesity. Previous research suggests that parental feeding practices are partially associated with development of eating behaviors among children, but the results are inconsistent. The present study was to investigate whe...

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Autores principales: Qiu, Chao, Hatton, Rosalind, Li, Qian, Xv, Jiale, Li, Jiaqin, Tian, Jiahe, Yuan, Shenghao, Hou, Min
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9938626/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36800939
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-023-03848-y
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author Qiu, Chao
Hatton, Rosalind
Li, Qian
Xv, Jiale
Li, Jiaqin
Tian, Jiahe
Yuan, Shenghao
Hou, Min
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Hatton, Rosalind
Li, Qian
Xv, Jiale
Li, Jiaqin
Tian, Jiahe
Yuan, Shenghao
Hou, Min
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description BACKGROUND: Childhood inadequate eating behaviors contribute to the epidemic of obesity. Previous research suggests that parental feeding practices are partially associated with development of eating behaviors among children, but the results are inconsistent. The present study was to investigate whether parental feeding practices were associated with eating behaviors and food preferences among Chinese children. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted to collect data from 242 children (ages 7–12) in six-primary schools in Shanghai, China. A series of questionnaires including parental feeding practices and children’s eating behaviors have been validated, and were completed by one of parent who has responded for child’s daily diet and living. In addition, researchers instructed children to complete the questionnaire of food preference. After adjustment for children’s age, sex and BMI status, as well as parental education and family income, the linear regression analysis was used to evaluate relationships of parental feeding practices with children’s eating behaviors and food preferences. RESULTS: Parents with boys had higher level of control overeating practice than those with girls. Mothers who responded to child’s daily diet and living and completed feeding practices questionnaire used a greater level of emotional feeding practices than fathers. Boys had higher levels of food responsiveness, emotional overeating, enjoyment of food and desire to drink than girls. Boys had different preferences for meat, processed meat products, fast foods, dairy foods, eggs, and snacks and starchy staples & beans from girls. In addition, scores of instrumental feeding practice and preference for meat significantly differed among children with different weight status. Furthermore, parental emotional feeding practice was positively associated with children’s emotional undereating (β 0.54, 95% CI 0.16 to 0.92). There were also positive associations of parental encouragement to eat with children’s preference for the processed meat (β 0.43, 95% CI 0.08 to 0.77). Moreover, instrumental feeding practice was negatively associated with children’s fish liking (β -0.47, 95% CI -0.94 to -0.01). CONCLUSION: The current findings support associations of emotional feeding practice with some children’s emotional undereating, as well as parental encouragement to eat and instrumental feeding practice related to preference for processed meat and fish, respectively. Further studies should continue to ascertain these associations using longitudinal designs, and to evaluate efficacy of parental feeding practices impacting developments of healthy eating behaviors and preferences for healthy foods among children by interventional studies. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12887-023-03848-y.
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spelling pubmed-99386262023-02-19 Associations of parental feeding practices with children’s eating behaviors and food preferences: a Chinese cross-sectional study Qiu, Chao Hatton, Rosalind Li, Qian Xv, Jiale Li, Jiaqin Tian, Jiahe Yuan, Shenghao Hou, Min BMC Pediatr Research BACKGROUND: Childhood inadequate eating behaviors contribute to the epidemic of obesity. Previous research suggests that parental feeding practices are partially associated with development of eating behaviors among children, but the results are inconsistent. The present study was to investigate whether parental feeding practices were associated with eating behaviors and food preferences among Chinese children. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted to collect data from 242 children (ages 7–12) in six-primary schools in Shanghai, China. A series of questionnaires including parental feeding practices and children’s eating behaviors have been validated, and were completed by one of parent who has responded for child’s daily diet and living. In addition, researchers instructed children to complete the questionnaire of food preference. After adjustment for children’s age, sex and BMI status, as well as parental education and family income, the linear regression analysis was used to evaluate relationships of parental feeding practices with children’s eating behaviors and food preferences. RESULTS: Parents with boys had higher level of control overeating practice than those with girls. Mothers who responded to child’s daily diet and living and completed feeding practices questionnaire used a greater level of emotional feeding practices than fathers. Boys had higher levels of food responsiveness, emotional overeating, enjoyment of food and desire to drink than girls. Boys had different preferences for meat, processed meat products, fast foods, dairy foods, eggs, and snacks and starchy staples & beans from girls. In addition, scores of instrumental feeding practice and preference for meat significantly differed among children with different weight status. Furthermore, parental emotional feeding practice was positively associated with children’s emotional undereating (β 0.54, 95% CI 0.16 to 0.92). There were also positive associations of parental encouragement to eat with children’s preference for the processed meat (β 0.43, 95% CI 0.08 to 0.77). Moreover, instrumental feeding practice was negatively associated with children’s fish liking (β -0.47, 95% CI -0.94 to -0.01). CONCLUSION: The current findings support associations of emotional feeding practice with some children’s emotional undereating, as well as parental encouragement to eat and instrumental feeding practice related to preference for processed meat and fish, respectively. Further studies should continue to ascertain these associations using longitudinal designs, and to evaluate efficacy of parental feeding practices impacting developments of healthy eating behaviors and preferences for healthy foods among children by interventional studies. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12887-023-03848-y. BioMed Central 2023-02-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9938626/ /pubmed/36800939 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-023-03848-y Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Qiu, Chao
Hatton, Rosalind
Li, Qian
Xv, Jiale
Li, Jiaqin
Tian, Jiahe
Yuan, Shenghao
Hou, Min
Associations of parental feeding practices with children’s eating behaviors and food preferences: a Chinese cross-sectional study
title Associations of parental feeding practices with children’s eating behaviors and food preferences: a Chinese cross-sectional study
title_full Associations of parental feeding practices with children’s eating behaviors and food preferences: a Chinese cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Associations of parental feeding practices with children’s eating behaviors and food preferences: a Chinese cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Associations of parental feeding practices with children’s eating behaviors and food preferences: a Chinese cross-sectional study
title_short Associations of parental feeding practices with children’s eating behaviors and food preferences: a Chinese cross-sectional study
title_sort associations of parental feeding practices with children’s eating behaviors and food preferences: a chinese cross-sectional study
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9938626/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36800939
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-023-03848-y
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