Sentences with phrase «child eating behaviour»

The items for the two measures, food fussiness and interest in food, originated from the single measure of food fussiness from the Child Eating Behaviour Questionnaire.

One hundred and fifty - six mothers of 2 - to 4 - year - old children completed questionnaires including measures of maternal feeding practices (pressure to eat, restriction, monitoring and modelling of healthy eating), child eating behaviour (food responsiveness, food fussiness and interest in food), and mother reported child height and weight.

There is some evidence to suggest that pressure to eat and restriction may have a negative impact on child eating behaviour, which could affect child weight status over time.

We expected that these relationships would be significant after controlling for child age and gender, for maternal age, BMI and education, and for initial levels of the dependent variable (i.e., the particular child eating behaviour or child BMI at time 1).

Further research is required to establish whether modelling of healthy eating has a sustained positive impact on child eating behaviour, and subsequently weight.

Mean (s.d.) scores and bivariate correlations for time 1 and time 2 maternal feeding practices and child eating behaviour (N = 156)

Regression analyses were used to find longitudinal associations between maternal feeding practices, child eating behaviour and child body mass index (BMI).

A small number of studies have examined the longitudinal impact of parental feeding practices on child eating behaviour and weight.

We were unable to find any other prospective studies addressing the impact of modelling of healthy eating on child eating behaviour or BMI.

Furthermore, our study only explored the influence of feeding practices after one year, and it could be that it takes longer than that to see effects on child eating behaviour.

Cross-sectional studies have found that both pressure to eat and restriction were associated with child eating behaviour and child weight status.

Our 2 - to 4 - year - old sample enabled us to capture a key developmental period for child eating behaviour.

This brief review of relationships between parental feeding practices, child eating behaviour and child BMI has highlighted the need for more prospective research in this area.

With regards to child eating behaviour, one study found that mothers who used pressure to eat more frequently when their daughters were aged 7 years, had daughters who were pickier eaters at age 9 years.

Measuring behavioural susceptibility to obesity: validation of the child eating behaviour questionnaire

Correlation analyses were used to measure stability of maternal feeding practices and child eating behaviours across the two time points.

The secondary aim was to establish whether maternal feeding practices or child eating behaviours would predict child BMIz one year later, after controlling for initial BMIz.

Hierarchical multiple regressions were used to test whether maternal feeding practices could predict changes in child eating behaviours over time.

If the T1 feeding practices were significant predictors of T2 eating behaviour after taking into account the effect of prior (T1) eating behaviour, this would indicate support for the hypothesis that maternal feeding practices predict the development of particular child eating behaviours.

BMI z - score at T2 was not significantly predicted by T1 maternal feeding practices (R 2 Change =.01, p =.857), or by T1 child eating behaviours (R 2 Change =.01, p =.707) after controlling for maternal and child covariates, and T1 BMIz.

We hypothesised that the use of maternal feeding practices with 2 - to 4 - year - old children would prospectively predict child eating behaviours and child BMI over 12 months.

Two analyses were conducted, with maternal feeding practices (pressure to eat, restriction, monitoring and healthy modelling) as the independent variables in one analysis, and child eating behaviours (food responsiveness, food fussiness and interest in food) in the other.

Not exact matches

The Committee recommends that the Minister for Health and Ageing commission research into the effect of the advertising of food products with limited nutritional value on the eating behaviour of children and other vulnerable groups.

Compounds produced in the digestive system have been linked to autistic - type behaviour in laboratory settings, potentially demonstrating that what autistic children eat can alter their brain function, say scientists from the University of Western Ontario.

Eating with other children also influences children's behaviour, in terms of what foods they like to eat.

From the abstract: Maternal reports of food avoidance eating behaviours were associated with an emotional child temperament, high levels of maternal feeding control, using food for behaviour regulation, and low encouragement of a balanced and varied food intake.

The HDHK programme gives dads the knowledge and skills for long - term behaviour change, teaching them about the importance of engaging with their children and using healthy eating and physical activity as media to engage fathers with their children.

If you're looking for more gentle ways to cope with your child's behaviour, whether that involves tantrums, picky eating, throwing, hitting, biting, sibling rivalry or not... Continue reading →

Tell your child's caregiver about any difficulties your child is having at home, for example, if he isn't sleeping or eating well, or is having any trouble with behaviour.

As Suleiman, a motorbike rider, figuratively argued: «If you want your daughter to stop eating cassava, you should have rice at home», reflecting the affinity between the expectations of state behaviour towards its youth and that of a parent towards his or her children.

Frans Folkvord tested the effects of such hidden online food advertisements on the eating behaviour of more than 1000 children.

In a review study published last week (8 December), Frans Folkvord and other authors, including his supervisor Professor Moniek Buijzen, list and evaluate the literature on marketing to children and eating behaviour.

Good news for marketers, bad news for anyone concerned about the increase of unhealthy eating behaviour amongst children: shortly after playing a game with an embedded food advertisement, children ate 55 % more of the candy offered to them than children who had played a game with an embedded toy advertisement.

As the cycle continues, children fail to learn healthy eating behaviour.

«Our results support previous arguments for interventions aimed at improving the eating behaviours of preschool - aged children,» write the authors.

«Eating behaviours as reported by parents via the NutriSTEP questionnaire were positively associated with serum non-HDL cholesterol levels in children aged 3 - 5 years,» write the authors.

Parents who directly and actively engage their children in healthy living behaviour — instead of passively «supporting» the behaviour — are significantly more likely to see their kids meet Canadian guidelines when it comes to physical activity, healthy eating and screen time, new research from Public Health Ontario (PHO) has found.

The research shows that the modelling effect is stronger in older children than in younger children, which also suggests that relying on external rather than internal cues for how much to eat is a learnt behaviour.

And what children learn about food and eating at school, they transmit home: children can influence their parents» behaviour and environment, reinforcing those healthier messages in their life away from school.

Alongside the study, further experiments in school canteens tracked the eating behaviours of children in primary and secondary schools and found that even small improvements to dining spaces can make young people eat more school food.

Children's Minister Sarah Teather recently said: «Healthy eating has a direct impact on behaviour, concentration and ability to learn in schools.

Primary and junior school years are an excellent window of opportunity to help build resiliency in young children, so they can better resist negative media messaging, and social pressure to engage in unhealthy eating and weight - related behaviour.

Considering that parents tend not to be able to accurately recognise when their child is overweight [39], it could be that a combination of the child's actual weight and the child's food responsive eating style elicits concern in the parent, who then uses restrictive feeding practices in an attempt to modify the child's eating behaviour and subsequently weight.

While there is evidence to suggest that eating behaviours developed in childhood carry on into early adulthood [45], perhaps the weight and health consequences of these behaviours don't become evident until later in childhood, as parental capacity as gatekeeper over the child's diet is reduced.

The aim of the present study was to examine the extent to which maternal feeding practices prospectively predict the development of eating behaviour and BMI in pre-school-aged children.

Monitoring, on the other hand, has not been associated with child BMI [8, 10] or eating behaviours [11] in cross-sectional studies.

Maternal feeding practices appear to influence young children's eating behaviour but not weight status in the short term.

The finding that pressure to eat did not predict decreased child food fussiness 12 - month period was contrary to both the original hypothesis, and the results of a prior longitudinal study, which found that girls whose mothers used higher levels of pressure to eat when they were 7 years old, showed more fussy eating behaviour at 9 years old [15].

Parents may benefit from public health interventions that promote adult healthy eating habits as a means for developing and maintaining healthy eating behaviour in their children.

Food fussiness measures children's picky eating behaviour (e.g. «My child is difficult to please with meals») and acceptance of new foods (e.g. «My child enjoys tasting new foods»).