scholarly journals Moderating Effects of Parental Feeding Practices and Emotional Eating on Dietary Intake among Overweight African American Adolescents

Nutrients ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1920
Author(s):  
Mary Quattlebaum ◽  
Dawn K. Wilson ◽  
Allison M. Sweeney ◽  
Nicole Zarrett
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Parental Monitoring ◽  
Emotional Eating ◽  
Saturated Fat ◽  
Feeding Practices ◽  
African American Adolescents ◽  
Family Systems Theory ◽  
Dietary Quality ◽  
Parental Feeding Practices ◽  
Parental Feeding

This study examined the effects of parental feeding practices and adolescent emotional eating (EE) on dietary outcomes among overweight African American adolescents. Based on Family Systems Theory, it was hypothesized that parental feeding practices, such as parental monitoring and responsibility, would buffer the effects of EE on poor dietary quality, whereas practices such as concern about a child’s weight, restriction, and pressure-to-eat would exacerbate this relationship. Adolescents (N = 127; Mage = 12.83 ± 1.74; MBMI% = 96.61 ± 4.14) provided baseline data from the Families Improving Together (FIT) for Weight Loss trial and an ancillary study. Dietary outcomes (fruit and vegetables (F&Vs), energy intake, sweetened beverage, total fat, and saturated fat) were assessed using random 24-h dietary recalls. Validated surveys were used to assess adolescent-reported EE and parental feeding practices. Results demonstrated a significant interaction between EE and parental monitoring (adjusted analyses; B = 0.524, SE = 0.176, p = 0.004), restriction (B = −0.331, SE = 0.162, p = 0.043), and concern (B = −0.602, SE = 0.171, p = 0.001) on F&V intake; under high monitoring, low restriction, and low concern, EE was positively associated with F&V intake. There were no significant effects for the other dietary outcomes. These findings indicate that parental feeding practices and EE may be important factors to consider for dietary interventions, specifically for F&V intake, among overweight African American adolescents.

scholarly journals The Moderating Effects of the Families Improving Together (FIT) for Weight Loss Intervention and Parenting Factors on Family Mealtime in Overweight and Obese African American Adolescents

Nutrients ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1745
Author(s):  
Dawn K. Wilson ◽  
Allison M. Sweeney ◽  
Mary Quattlebaum ◽  
Haylee Loncar ◽  
Colby Kipp ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
African American ◽  
Parenting Styles ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
African American Adolescents ◽  
Motivational Strategies ◽  
Moderating Effects ◽  
Parental Feeding Practices ◽  
Parental Concerns ◽  
Parental Feeding

Few studies have integrated positive parenting and motivational strategies to address dietary outcomes such as frequency of family mealtime. The Families Improving Together (FIT) for Weight Loss trial was a randomized group cohort trial (n = 241 dyads) testing the efficacy of integrating a motivational plus family weight loss (M + FWL) intervention for healthy eating and weight loss in overweight and obese African American adolescents. The current study tested the interaction of parenting styles (responsiveness, demandingness) and parental feeding practices (restriction, concern about child’s weight, pressure to eat) and the FIT intervention on frequency of family mealtime over 16 weeks. Multilevel modeling demonstrated significant interactions between the group-based treatment and responsiveness (p = 0.018) and demandingness (p = 0.010) on family mealtime. For the group-based M + FWL intervention, increased responsiveness and reduced demandingness were associated with increased frequency of family mealtime from baseline to 16 weeks. There was also a negative association between parental restriction and frequency of family mealtime, but a positive association between parental concerns about their adolescent’s weight and frequency of mealtime. These findings are the first to demonstrate that an authoritative or nurturing parenting style moderated intervention effects for improving the frequency of family mealtime in overweight and obese African American adolescents.

scholarly journals Parent Gender Affects the Influence of Parent Emotional Eating and Feeding Practices on Child Emotional Eating

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaina D. Trevino ◽  
Nichole R. Kelly ◽  
Elizabeth L. Budd ◽  
Nicole R. Giuliani
Keyword(s):  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Emotional Eating ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Feeding Practices ◽  
Feeding Practice ◽  
Elementary School Age ◽  
Parental Feeding Practices ◽  
Parent Gender ◽  
Parental Feeding ◽  
Insight Into

Extant research supports a direct association between parent’s own emotional eating and their child’s emotional eating, and demonstrates correlations among parent emotional eating, feeding practices, and child emotional eating. However, the majority of this work focuses on the separate influences of these factors. The current study aims to add to the literature by simultaneously examining the indirect effects of three major parental feeding practices (i.e., emotion regulation, instrumental, and restrictive feeding) in the association between parent emotional eating and child emotional eating, and exploring how these indirect effects vary based on parent gender. Parents (86 fathers, 324 mothers) of an elementary school-age child (M = 8.35, SD = 2.29, range = 5–13) completed an online survey through Qualtrics Panels. Results suggested that restrictive feeding partially accounted for the association between parent and child emotional eating in the combined sample of mothers and fathers. Exploratory analyses revealed that the indirect effects of parental feeding practices in the association between parent emotional eating and child emotional eating varied based on parent gender. Among mothers, restrictive feeding was the only feeding practice that partially accounted for the association between maternal and child emotional eating, whereas all three feeding practices fully accounted for the association between father and child emotional eating. As the bulk of the literature on parent emotional eating and feeding has solely focused on mothers, these findings offer insight into how feeding practices may differentially function in the relation between parent emotional eating and child emotional eating for mothers versus fathers.

scholarly journals Sibling eating behaviours and parental feeding practices with siblings: similar or different?

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (13) ◽  
pp. 2415-2423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerica M Berge ◽  
Allan D Tate ◽  
Amanda Trofholz ◽  
Katherine Conger ◽  
Dianne Neumark-Sztainer
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Emotional Eating ◽  
Weight Status ◽  
Feeding Practices ◽  
Healthy Weight ◽  
Eating Behaviours ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Parental Feeding Practices ◽  
Parental Feeding ◽  
Child Eating

AbstractObjectiveLittle is known about whether siblings have similar or different eating behaviours or whether parents tailor their feeding practices to different siblings. The main objectives of the present study were to examine similarities and differences in child eating behaviours and parental feeding practices with siblings and to determine whether child eating behaviours and parental feeding practices differ depending on sibling concordant (i.e. both siblings overweight or healthy weight) or discordant (i.e. one sibling overweight and one sibling healthy weight) weight status.DesignCross-sectional, mixed-methods study.SettingIn-home visits were conducted by research staff. Surveys were conducted with parents and anthropometry was collected on parents and siblings.SubjectsChildren (n 88) aged 6–12 years (mean age 9 (sd 2) years), their parents (mean age 34 (sd 7) years) and near-age siblings (mean age 9 (sd 4) years) from diverse racial/ethnic and low-income households participated.ResultsResults indicated that siblings with higher BMI engaged in higher levels of emotional eating compared with siblings with lower BMI. Additionally, results indicated that when families had sibling dyads discordant on weight status, the sibling who was overweight had higher food enjoyment and lower levels of food satiety. Additionally, within siblings with discordant weight status, parents were more likely to use restrictive feeding practices with the overweight sibling and pressure-to-eat and encouragement-to-eat feeding practices with the healthy-weight sibling.ConclusionsFamily-based childhood obesity interventions may need to assess for sibling weight status when researching the home environment and intervene with parents to avoid using restriction or pressure-to-eat feeding practices when siblings are discordant on weight status.

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