The Parent Mealtime Action Scale (PMAS). Development and association with children's diet and weight

Hendy, Helen M.; Williams, Keith E.; Camise, Thomas S.; Eckman, Nicholas; Hedemann, Amber

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2008.11.003

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“…While previous research has examined the influence of parental feeding practices (e.g., parental pressure to eat, parental restriction of snacking, and regularity of family meals) on children's body weight, 9,11,15,29 this is the first study to assess the relative effects of children's, mothers' and fathers' own eating behaviours on measures of body composition in children. Although understanding the influence of parental feeding practices is important, the modification of children's and parents' own eating behaviours may represent an alternate and arguably easier point of intervention to encourage positive weight behaviour change in children.…”

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Associations between family eating behaviours and body composition measures in peri-adolescents: Results from a community-based study of school-aged children

Hajna

LeBlanc

Merchant

et al. 2014

Can J Public Health

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OBJECTIVES:To identify key eating behaviours in children and their parents and to determine the associations between these behaviours and measures of body composition in children. METHODS:Data were collected on a sample of 431 peri-adolescent children (12.4±0.3 years) and their parents from the Niagara Region. Body composition was assessed by trained research assistants. Eating behaviours were assessed using a revised version of the Family Eating and Activity Habits Questionnaire. Principal component analyses were used to identify key eating behaviours among children, mothers and fathers. Linear regression models were used to assess their associations with body mass index (BMI), waist-to-height ratio, waist-to-hip ratio, waist girth, and hip girth measures in children. RESULTS:Emotional/uncontrolled eating and eating by the television in children and their mothers were positively associated with measures of body composition in children. Other eating behaviours that were associated with larger measures of body composition in children included low frequency of eating meals with parents, frequent sweet beverage consumption and snacking and eating "on-the-go" in children, eating "on-the-go" in mothers, and emotional eating and eating by the television/late at night in fathers. CONCLUSIONS:The eating behaviours of children and mothers, and to a lesser degree fathers, are important predictors of children's body composition. Public health interventions designed to help mothers and children reduce the frequency of emotional/uncontrolled eating and eating by the television may be effective means of facilitating positive weight outcomes in children.

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Associations between family eating behaviours and body composition measures in peri-adolescents: Results from a community-based study of school-aged children

Hajna

LeBlanc

Merchant

et al. 2014

Can J Public Health

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“…A further area of research within psychology considers the impact of parenting styles on child feeding practices (Farrow, Galloway, & Fraser, 2009), often driven by a concern with childhood obesity or weight issues (Blissett & Haycraft, 2008;Carper, Fisher, & Birch, 2000;Faith, Scanlon, Birch, Francis, & Sherry, 2004;Wardle, Sanderson, Guthrie, Rapoport, & Plomin, 2002). The parenting styles or strategies typically examined include a range of practices, from encouraging children to finish their food, to controlling the type and amount of food that they eat (Bourcier, Bowen, Meischke, & Moinpour, 2003;Hendy, WIlliams, Camise, Eckman, & Hedemann, 2009;Sleddens, Kremers, De Vries, & Thijs, 2010). This literature also points to a distinction between parenting 'styles' (i.e.…”

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Finishing the family meal. The interactional organisation of satiety

Laurier

Wiggins

2011

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“…The Escala de Comportamento dos Pais durante a Refeição (ECPDR) is the Portuguese version of the Parent Mealtime Action Scale (PAMS), recently developed and validated for a US population by Hendy et al 15 In Brazil, the version was translated and validated by Petty et al 16 , in a study with parents or official caregivers of children aged 6 to 10 years, enrolled in schools in the city of São Paulo. The original scale had a reliability (Cronbach's Alpha) of 0.62 -varying between 0.42 and 0.81 among the 9 domains15; and the validation work found Cronbach's Alpha of 0.61 -ranging from 0.47 to 0.81 between domains.…”

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Influence of behavior and maternal perception on their children’s eating and nutritional status

Jellmayer¹,

Piano²,

Alvarenga³

2017

Mundo da Saúde

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ResumoAs mães exercem grande responsabilidade sobre alimentação e comportamento alimentar durante a infância. O presente estudo objetivou analisar as atitudes e percepção materna sobre a alimentação e estado nutricional da criança. Selecionou-se uma amostra não probabilística de 116 mães e respectivos filhos, que frequentam Unidades Básicas de Saúde da Prefeitura de São Paulo. Aplicou-se a Escala de Comportamento dos Pais durante a Refeição (ECPDR) e o Questionário de Alimentação da Criança (QAC) para as mães. Avaliou-se a idade, renda, escolaridade e estado nutricional das mães e filhos e associações entre estas características e os escores da ECPDR e QAC por meio de regressão linear. Analisaram-se correlações entre a ECPDR e QAC pelo teste de Spearman e entre estado nutricional das mães e filhos pelo Qui quadrado de Pearson. Verificou-se que 71,5% das mães e 57,7% dos filhos apresentaram excesso de peso. As atitudes maternas positivas mais presentes segundo ECPDR foram: disponibilidade diária de frutas e hortaliças, limite de guloseimas e persuasão positiva; e as negativas: modelo de guloseima, uso de recompensas e oferecimento de muitas opções alimentares. Pelo QAC, os mais presentes: responsabilidade percebida quanto à alimentação da criança, monitoramento exercido sobre o consumo de alimentos saudáveis, restrição de alimentos não saudáveis e pressão para comer. Houve correlação moderada entre estado nutricional da mãe e do filho. Concluiu-se que as atitudes e percepções maternas relacionadas à alimentação dos filhos variam em função de seu próprio estado nutricional e o da criança. Palavras-chave:Comportamento alimentar; estado nutricional; criança. AbstractKeywords: Feeding behavior; nutritional status; child.Mothers carry a major responsibility for nutrition and feeding behavior during childhood. The present study aimed to analyze the maternal attitude and perception of the mealtimes and nutritional status of their children. A non-probabilistic sample of 116 mothers and their respective children who go to the Basic Health Units of the City of Sao Paulo, were invited to respond to a Parent Mealtime Action Scale (PMAS) and the Child Feeding Questionnaire (CFQ). The age, income, education and nutritional status of mothers and their children were assessed, and the associations between these characteristics and the PMAS and CFQ scores were examined using linear regression. The correlations between PMAS and CFQ were analyzed by the Spearman test and the nutritional status correlations between mothers and their children, by the Pearson's chi-square. It was found that 71.5% of the mothers and 57.7% of the children were either overweight or obese. The most common positive maternal attitudes according to the PMAS were: daily offer of fruits and vegetables, limits on sweets, and positive persuasion. The negative attitudes were sweet-eating role models, use of rewards and providing many food options. Among the CFQ factors, the most frequent were: perceived responsibility toward their children's food intake, monitorin...

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The Parent Mealtime Action Scale (PMAS). Development and association with children's diet and weight

Cited by 166 publications

References 64 publications

Associations between family eating behaviours and body composition measures in peri-adolescents: Results from a community-based study of school-aged children

Associations between family eating behaviours and body composition measures in peri-adolescents: Results from a community-based study of school-aged children

Finishing the family meal. The interactional organisation of satiety

Influence of behavior and maternal perception on their children’s eating and nutritional status

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