“That’s enough now!”: A prospective study of the effects of maternal control on children’s snack intake

Boots, Samantha B.; Tiggemann, Marika; Corsini, Nadia

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2018.03.008

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“…Parental feeding practices may influence the eating habits of young children, and thus appropriate feeding strategies are critical to prevent and control childhood obesity (5,6) . Feeding practices refer to specific practices or strategies that parents employ to manage what, when and how much their children eat and shape their children's eating patterns (7)(8)(9) . Several feeding practices, such as applying pressure to eat, restricting food, monitoring consumption and using food as a reward (9) , have been most frequently studied (10)(11)(12)(13) .…”

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Maternal perception of child weight and concern about child overweight mediates the relationship between child weight and feeding practices

Wang

Zhu

Cheng³

et al. 2022

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: To examine the mediating effects of maternal perception of child weight (weight perception) and concern about overweight (weight concern) on the paths between child weight and maternal feeding practices. Setting: Pudong District, Shanghai, China. Participants: A convenience sample of 1164 mothers who were primary caregivers of preschool children. Results: Sixty percent of the mothers perceived their overweight/obese children as normal weight or even underweight. The disagreement between actual child weight and maternal weight perception was statistically significant (Kappa = 0.212, P < 0.001). Structural equation modeling (SEM) indicated that weight perception fully mediated the relationship between child BMI Z-scores and pressure to eat. Weight concern fully mediated the relationships between child BMI Z-scores and the other three feeding practices. The serial mediating effects of weight perception and concern were statistically significant for the paths between child BMI Z-score and monitoring (β = 0.035, P < 0.001), restriction (β = 0.022, P < 0.001), and food as a reward (β = -0.017, P < 0.05). Conclusion: Child weight may influence maternal feeding practices through weight perception and concern. Thus, interventions are needed to increase the accuracy of weight perception, which may influence several maternal feeding practices and thereby contribute to child health.

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Maternal perception of child weight and concern about child overweight mediates the relationship between child weight and feeding practices

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Zhu

Cheng³

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“…2003; Boots et al . 2018). Both of these outcomes are typically the opposite of parents’ intentions, illustrating how controlling feeding practices can disrupt children’s responses to their internal hunger and satiety cues which, in turn, can contribute to the development of overweight and obesity (Faith et al .…”

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The Child Feeding Guide: A digital health intervention for reducing controlling child feeding practices and maternal anxiety over time

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Fussy eating and food refusal are common in young children. These behaviours can contribute to anxiety or concern in parents and caregivers, who have called for credible support to help them navigate the challenges of feeding young children. Given recent increases in technology, and use of the Internet as a trusted source of parenting support, the Child Feeding Guide digital health intervention was created to provide evidence‐based support to parents and caregivers to help them to feed children and establish healthy eating habits from the early years. An evaluation was conducted with 25 mothers (with a child aged 6 months to 4 years) who used the Child Feeding Guide website/app over 4 weeks. Mothers provided information about their feeding practices and anxiety levels at baseline, and again 4 weeks later, and answered questions regarding the acceptability and use of the digital support resource. Significant decreases were seen in maternal anxiety and in maternal use of pressure to eat and restriction of food from children for weight reasons. Mothers reported that the Child Feeding Guide was easy to use, that they valued its credibility and reassurances, and that its content helped them to better understand their child’s eating behaviour. These promising findings suggest that naturalistic use of a digital health intervention could contribute to reductions in mothers’ use of controlling feeding practices and levels of anxiety. Such findings are important for supporting the development of healthy eating habits in young children and are likely to be relevant to health and childcare professionals.

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“…This can lead to overeating, emotional or binge eating as children develop and have increasing autonomy over their own food choices [ 15 ]. Studies reveal that restrictive parenting practices also predict disordered eating in children [ 15 ] including eating in the absence of hunger [ 13 ], emotional overeating [ 16 ] and an increased intake of the foods parents are restricting when they become available [ 17 ].…”

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What Factors Predict the Use of Coercive Food Parenting Practices among Mothers of Young Children? An Examination of Food Literacy, Disordered Eating and Parent Demographics

Norton

Parkinson

Harris

et al. 2021

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Parents have the most significant influence on the development of young children’s eating patterns. Understanding what parental factors best predict specific negative feeding practices is important for designing preventive interventions. We examined the relationship between parents’ use of coercive food parenting practices (pressure to eat and restriction) and parents’ disordered eating, food literacy, Body Mass Index (BMI) and socio-economic status (SES). Adult mothers, with a mean age of 33 years, at least one child aged between 6 months and 5 years and living in Australia (n = 819) completed an online questionnaire. Regression models were used to examine predictors of pressure to eat and restriction, respectively. Although the amount of variance accounted for by the models was small, maternal eating disorder symptoms were found to be the most important predictor of coercive food parenting practices. This finding has implications for early nutrition education, which has traditionally focused heavily on nutrition literacy. Parental disordered eating may be a more important preventive target and thus including behavioral strategies for positive feeding practices may better assist mothers in promoting positive eating habits with their children, rather than traditional approaches that aim to increase nutrition literacy.

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“That’s enough now!”: A prospective study of the effects of maternal control on children’s snack intake

Cited by 21 publications

References 49 publications

Maternal perception of child weight and concern about child overweight mediates the relationship between child weight and feeding practices

Maternal perception of child weight and concern about child overweight mediates the relationship between child weight and feeding practices

The Child Feeding Guide: A digital health intervention for reducing controlling child feeding practices and maternal anxiety over time

What Factors Predict the Use of Coercive Food Parenting Practices among Mothers of Young Children? An Examination of Food Literacy, Disordered Eating and Parent Demographics

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