Sentences with phrase «greater child adiposity»

Objectives: This study sought to identify factors associated with maternal feeding behaviors and to test the hypothesis that more maternal prompts to eat, more assertive prompts, and more intrusiveness are associated with greater child adiposity.

Conclusions: Assertive prompting and an intrusive style had small but significant associations with greater child adiposity.

Children were videotaped eating a standardized snack with their mothers at 3 time points across toddlerhood to address 2 objectives: 1) to identify maternal and child characteristics that are associated with observed maternal feeding behaviors, and 2) to test the hypothesis that more prompts, a greater percentage of prompts being assertive, and more intrusiveness are associated with greater child adiposity.