scholarly journals Does Examining the Childhood Food Experiences Help to Better Understand Food Choices in Adulthood?

Nutrients ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 983
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Małachowska ◽  
Marzena Jeżewska-Zychowicz
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Food Reward ◽  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Fruits And Vegetables ◽  
Feeding Practices ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
Parental Feeding Practices ◽  
Parental Feeding ◽  
Child Control

Impact of parental feeding practices on children’s eating behaviors is well-documented in the literature. Nevertheless, little is known about how many of these behaviors might persist into adulthood. There is a lack of a tool measuring childhood feeding experiences recollected by adults, while the Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire (CFPQ) is used to measure parental feeding practices applied towards children. The aim of the study was to adapt the CFPQ to measure adults’ recollections of their childhood (5–10 years old) feeding experiences, to examine its discriminant validity and then to assess if these practices are related to adults’ food choices. In 2020, the modified version of CFPQ (mCFPQ) and questions on current food consumption were administered in a group of 500 adults twice over a two-week interval. The analysis included 443 participants whose questionnaires were correctly completed in both stages of the study. The Q-sorting procedure was used to test for discriminant validity of the questionnaire, i.e., confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis (EFA), Cronbach’s alpha, correlations coefficients, and the analysis of the differences between groups according to the intake of certain food products. Test–retest reliability was examined by calculating interclass correlation coefficients (ICC) for each obtained factor. As a result of EFA, five subscales were identified: “Restrictions”, “Healthy Eating Guidance”, “Pressure and Food Reward”, “Monitoring”, and “Child Control”. Items from these subscales created a new tool—Adults’ Memories of Feeding in Childhood (AMoFiC). Test for internal consistency, factor correlations, and discriminant validity proved satisfactory psychometric parameters of AMoFiC. “Pressure and Food Reward” and “Child Control” were associated with higher intake of sweets and salty snacks, whereas “Healthy Eating Guidance”, “Monitoring”, and “Restrictions” were associated with higher consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables. Despite the fact that the AMoFiC questionnaire requires further research, the findings of the study might be of practical use in counseling addressed to the parents.

Parental health literacy and nutrition literacy affect child feeding practices: A cross-sectional study

2021 ◽  
pp. 026010602110014
Author(s):  
Vassiliki Costarelli ◽  
Maria Michou ◽  
Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos ◽  
Christos Lionis
Keyword(s):  
Health Literacy ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Feeding Practices ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Greek Version ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Parental Feeding Practices ◽  
Parental Feeding ◽  
Child Control

Background: Health literacy (HL) and nutrition literacy (NL) are important issues to consider, in the provision of health care to children and the establishment of healthy eating behaviors. Aim: The study investigates the possible role of HL and NL levels of Greek parents, in parental Feeding Practices (PFP). Methods: This is a cross-sectional study which was conducted in the urban area of the Attica region, Greece. The sample consisted of 402 parents (68.4% mothers). Parents completed the Greek version of Comprehensive Parental Feeding Questionnaire, the European Health Literacy Questionnaire 47 and the Greek version of the Nutrition Literacy Scale. Sociodemographic and anthropometric characteristics were also assessed. The non-parametric tests Mann-Whitney and Kruskal Wallis, the chi-square test and linear regression models were applied. Results: The median for HL and NL were 33.69 and 24.00, respectively. Mothers applied the “child control” practice more frequently than fathers ( p = 0.015). Linear regression analysis revealed that HL was associated positively with “healthy eating guidance” and “monitoring” ( p = 0.009 and p < 0.0001, respectively) and negatively with “emotion regulation/food as reward” and “child control” ( p = 0.037 and p = 0.015, respectively). NL was associated positively only with “healthy eating guidance” ( p = 0.009), positively but marginally with “monitoring” ( p = 0.051) and negatively with “emotion regulation/food as reward” ( p = 0.020). Conclusions: Higher parental levels of HL and NL are significantly positively associated with better parental feeding practices in Greece.

scholarly journals Parental feeding practices and their relation to child eating behavior: Problems for explanation / Prácticas alimentarias parentales y su relación con la conducta alimentaria infantil: Problemas para la explicación

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-142
Author(s):  
Marina Liliana González-Torres ◽  
Cynthia Nayeli Esqueda Sifuentes ◽  
María De los Ángeles Vacio Muro
Keyword(s):  
Eating Behavior ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Food Preferences ◽  
Feeding Practices ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Parental Feeding Practices ◽  
Parental Feeding ◽  
Child Eating ◽  
Infant Feeding Behavior

Abstract Parental feeding practices influence the learning of healthy eating since childhood. But the lack of clear descriptions and inconsistent terminology of such practices hampers the understanding of their influence on such learning. From a selected review of scientific articles that included descriptions of parental feeding practices and relationships with any aspect of children's eating behavior, we analyzed the behavioral descriptions stated in literature during the last decade (2006-2016) with the purpose to clarify relations among these and the children’s eating behavior. The results were categorized based on the relationships between feeding practices and the challenges in infant feeding behavior such as acceptance of new foods, development of food preferences, and food self-regulation. The results reflect some practices associated with both desirable and undesirable children’s eating behavior. Confusion in terminology and lack of consistency in behavioral descriptions of parental feeding practices and explanations of the mechanisms of such practices are still unknown. Some considerations are proposed for future research. Resumen Desde la infancia, las prácticas alimentarias parentales (PAP) influyen en el aprendizaje del comer saludablemente. Sin embargo, la terminología inconsistente y la falta de descripciones claras de las PAP obstaculizan la comprensión de su influencia en dicho aprendizaje. A partir de una revisión selectiva de artículos científicos que incluyeron descripciones de las PAP y su relación con algún aspecto de la conducta alimentaria infantil (CAI), se buscó analizar las descripciones conductuales planteadas en la literatura durante la última década (2006-2016), con el propósito de clarificar las relaciones documentadas entre éstas y la CAI. Los resultados fueron categorizados a partir de las relaciones planteadas entre las PAP y algunos de los retos principales que el tópico de la CAI, como son: la aceptación de alimentos nuevos, el desarrollo de preferencias alimentarias y la autorregulación alimentaria. Los resultados reflejan algunas PAP asociadas tanto a conductas alimentarias deseables como indeseables para la salud de los niños. La confusión en la terminología y la falta de consistencia en las descripciones conductuales de las PAP, así como las explicaciones sobre los mecanismos por los cuales tales prácticas influyen en la CAI son todavía desconocidas. Se proponen algunas consideraciones a retomar en investigaciones futuras.  

scholarly journals Associations between parental feeding practices, problem food behaviours and dietary intake in New Zealand overweight children aged 4–8 years

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 1036-1043 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jillian J Haszard ◽  
Paula ML Skidmore ◽  
Sheila M Williams ◽  
Rachael W Taylor
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Dietary Intake ◽  
Feeding Practices ◽  
Fruit And Vegetables ◽  
Overweight Children ◽  
Eating Behaviours ◽  
Major Barrier ◽  
Parental Feeding Practices ◽  
Parental Feeding ◽  
Child Control

AbstractObjectiveParents report that children’s eating behaviours are a major barrier to providing them with a healthy diet. Links between problem eating behaviours and parental feeding practices are not well established and have not previously been examined in overweight children. The aim of the present study was to assess associations between problem food behaviours, dietary intake and parental feeding practices of overweight children aged 4–8 years.DesignParticipants were recruited for a lifestyle intervention (n 203). At baseline, children’s BMI was measured and parents completed comprehensive questionnaires about the feeding practices they used, the problem food behaviours their children exhibited and the foods their child consumed. A fussy eating scale was developed and associations were determined using correlations and regression analysis, including interactions.SettingDunedin, New Zealand.SubjectsOverweight children aged 4–8 years.ResultsHealthy eating guidance and monitoring by parents were related to the consumption of fewer unhealthy foods (B=−0·4, P=0·001 and B=−0·4, P<0·001). Conversely, a lack of parental control (child control) was related to a higher intake of unhealthy foods (B = 0·5, P<0·001). Parents of children who were fussy eaters monitored their child’s food intake less (P<0·001) and allowed the child more freedom over what he/she ate (P<0·001). These children consumed fewer fruit and vegetables than those who were not fussy eaters (P<0·001). However, fussy eaters with food-restrictive parents ate more fruit and vegetables (B=2·9, P<0·001).ConclusionsThese results suggest that a more structured food environment might be beneficial for the diet and food behaviours of young overweight children.

scholarly journals Promotion and Prevention Focused Feeding Strategies: Exploring the Effects on Healthy and Unhealthy Child Eating

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth L. Melbye ◽  
Håvard Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Feeding Practices ◽  
Feeding Strategies ◽  
Child Feeding ◽  
Parental Feeding Practices ◽  
Food Items ◽  
Parental Feeding ◽  
Child Eating ◽  
Feeding Interactions ◽  
Parent Child

There is a general lack of research addressing themotivationsbehind parental use of various feeding practices. Therefore, the present work aims to extend the current literature on parent-child feeding interactions by integrating the traditional developmental psychological perspective on feeding practices with elements of Regulatory Focus Theory (RFT) derived from the field of motivational psychology. In this paper, we seek to explain associations between parental feeding practices and child (un)healthy eating behaviors by categorizing parental feeding practices into promotion and prevention focused strategies, thus exploring parent-child feeding interactions within the framework of RFT. Our analyses partly supported the idea that (1) child healthy eating is positively associated with feeding practices characterized as promotion focused, and (2) child unhealthy eating is negatively associated with feeding practices characterized as prevention focused. However, a general observation following from our results suggests that parents’ major driving forces behind reducing children’s consumption of unhealthy food items and increasing their consumption of healthy food items are strategies that motivate rather than restrict. In particular, parents’ provision of a healthy home food environment seems to be essential for child eating.

scholarly journals Associations of parental feeding practices and food reward responsiveness with adolescent stress-eating

Appetite ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 152 ◽  
pp. 104715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy D. Smith ◽  
Natalia Sanchez ◽  
Chelsea Reynolds ◽  
Milena Casamassima ◽  
Megan Verros ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Reward ◽  
Feeding Practices ◽  
Parental Feeding Practices ◽  
Reward Responsiveness ◽  
Adolescent Stress ◽  
Stress Eating ◽  
Parental Feeding

scholarly journals Family and Personal Predictors of Early Adolescent Eating Patterns

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (SI-Obesity) ◽  
pp. 74-80
Author(s):  
Stephen L. Brown ◽  
James Teufel ◽  
Yuba R. Gautam ◽  
Christie Norrick ◽  
David Birch
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Perceived Control ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
Fruits And Vegetables ◽  
Early Adolescents ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
Health Programs ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Skipping Breakfast

Many early adolescents report consuming less than the recommended five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, and up to one-third report skipping breakfast. Recent research suggests that children consider parents to be the gatekeepers of food choices, and that parents are important role models for children’s eating behaviors. This study examined perceived control over food choices, familial communication regarding healthy eating, and preferred sources of information about healthy eating in relation to eating behaviors. Data were obtained from 959 early adolescents attending health programs in the Midwest. Early adolescents who reported more frequent family discussions were more likely to report eating two or more vegetables per day (AOR=1.4, p

scholarly journals The influence of parents on childhood weight status: relation with eating behaviour

2020 ◽  
Vol 79 (OCE2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Klosowska ◽  
Stefaan De Henauw ◽  
Sandra Verbeken ◽  
Caroline Braet ◽  
Kathleen Wijnant ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Environment ◽  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Eating Behaviour ◽  
Feeding Practices ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
Restrained Eating ◽  
Parental Feeding Practices ◽  
Parental Feeding ◽  
External Eating ◽  
Access To Food

AbstractProper dietary habits and behaviours are at the heart of maintaining an appropriate nutritional status, an adequate body mass and, as such, avoiding obesity and/ or its comorbidities. A child's diet is highly influenced by the home food environment and upbringing. The aim of the current study was to explore if and how parental feeding practices and eating behaviour are associated with child's eating behaviour and body mass index (BMI).In 226 Belgian adolescents (10–17y, 51% girls, 10% overweight and 14% underweight) and their parents, eating behaviour was assessed through the Dutch Eating Behaviour Questionnaire. Information on the parental feeding practices was obtained through the Child Feeding Questionnaire and the Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire. BMI was calculated based on standardised measurements of body height and body weight. Linear regression results, adjusted for age, sex and socioeconomic status, are described below.Regarding parental eating behaviour, parental external eating enhanced the child's external eating (β = 0.155,p = 0.022), parental restrained eating was associated negatively with the child's emotional (β = −0.214,p = 0.001) and external eating (β = −0.154,p = 0.022), but positively with its restrained eating (β = 0.149,p = 0.022) and BMI (β = 0.183,p = 0.005), while parental emotional eating had no influence. Concerning feeding practices, restriction of the child's access to food and food consumption monitoring, stimulated child's emotional (β = 0.174,p = 0.011; β = 0.173,p = 0.010) and restrained (β = 0.137,p = 0.041; β = 0.159,p = 0.015) eating, and showed a positive association with its BMI (β = 0.143,p = 0.033; β = 0.149,p = 0.023), while allowing the child to make own food choices reduced its external eating (β = −0.169,p = 0.012). Parental pressure to eat (mainly at mealtimes) decreased the child's restrained eating (β = −0.231,p < 0.001) and was negatively associated with its BMI (β = −0.340,p < 0.001). Moreover, child's BMI was inversely related to its external eating (β = −0.207,p = 0.002), but positively to its restrained eating (β = 0.0483,p < 0.001) and to parental healthy modelling (β = 0.192,p = 0.003), involving the child (β = 0.223,p = 0.001) and creating a favourable food environment (β = 0.162,p = 0.013).Our results confirm the parents' crucial role in the development of their offspring's dietary habits. Mainly parental external eating, restriction and monitoring of the child's access to food have an unfavourable effect, while allowing child's own food choices and parental restrained eating seem beneficial. Rather unexpected associations between healthy food environment, modelling and child involvement with child's BMI might lie in causal dependencies. A longitudinal investigation could further elucidate the reasons for these observations. We recommend that policies and educational programmes on healthy diet and eating behaviour target not only schools and children, but also parents.

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