The Parent Mealtime Action Scale revised (PMAS-R): Psychometric characteristics and associations with variables of clinical interest

Hendy, Helen M.; Harclerode, Whitney; Williams, Keith E.

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2016.05.025

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“…Besides, it is a widely known fact that many parents often insist their children eat when they tend to eat too slowly (Kermen & Aktaç, 2018; Powell et al, 2011; Scaglioni et al, 2011; Ventura & Birch, 2008). Parents employing insistence try to feed their children even when they do not want to eat, whereas parents who show positive persuasion tend to encourage their children to eat through positive statements (Arslan, 2012; Hendy et al, 2009, 2016; Williams et al, 2011). However, according to a review study in which mother–child mealtime behaviours were evaluated through observation, parental discouragements to eat and negative statements about food were associated with higher child weight (Bergmeier et al, 2015).…”

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“…Disruptive behaviours and emotional overeating may remain common among TD children as long as their parents maintain offering many food choices to them. When children demonstrate emotional undereating, parents tend to let them eat the meals they like and replace undesired food with desired meals (Arslan, 2012; Hendy et al, 2009, 2016; Williams et al, 2011). Emotional overeating represents a natural response to stress to some extent because most emotional arousal situations change one's eating activities (Wardle et al, 2001).…”

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“…The scale evaluates the behaviours of parents while feeding their children during mealtime. It consists of 31 items with nine distinct dimensions: snack limits (SL), positive persuasion (PP), daily food‐vegetable availability (DFV), use of rewards (UR), insistence on eating (IE), snack modelling (SMO), special meals (SM), fat reduction (FRD), and many food choices (MFC) (Hendy et al, 2009, 2016). Parents are asked to mark only one option on a 5‐point Likert‐type scale for each question; for example, “During a typical week in the past month, how often did you show each mealtime action?” In the current study, we considered only PP, DFV, UR, IE, and SM because the others seemed irrelevant to the research context.…”

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An investigation of the relationship between the eating behaviours of children with typical development and autism spectrum disorders and parent attitudes during mealtime eating behaviours and parent attitudes during mealtime

Öz

Bayhan

2021

Child

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Background Nutrition has significant importance in the course of growth and development in early childhood. Selective and fussy eating is prevalent among children with autism spectrum disorder and can have a profound impact on parents' mealtime actions. Aims The study aimed to investigate the relationship between parental mealtime actions and the eating behaviours of children aged 3–5 years with typical development (TD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Methods A total of 180 parents of children between 3 and 5 years in Ankara participated in the study; 90 were parents of children with TD, and 90 were parents of children with ASD. We measured the variables using the Brief Assessment of Mealtime Behaviour in Children (BAMBIC), Children's Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (CEBQ), and Parent Mealtime Action Scale (PMAS). Results The results revealed that food refusal, disruptive behaviours, and limited variety in TD children were related to parental actions, such as the use of rewards. We also found a negative correlation between enjoyment of food and the use of rewards. Children with ASD displayed differences concerning food refusal, and their parents were found to prepare more special meals for them compared with children with TD. Conclusion Despite differences, the eating behaviours of children with TD and ASD show similarities in some cases. If a child has a low interest in eating, then their parents tend to be more insistent, use more rewards, and offer special meals. On the contrary, a child's high interest in eating harms such parental behaviours. Because an acknowledgement that a relationship exists between the eating behaviours of children and parental actions would make intervening to shape parental attitudes easier, it is recommended that future studies should be carried out to respond to the eating problems of children by working with parents.

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