A longitudinal analysis of maternal depressive symptoms and children's food consumption and weight outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Maternal depressive symptoms negatively impact mothers' parenting practices and children's development, but the evidence linking these symptoms to children's obesity is mixed.

Design

We use a large sample to examine contemporaneous and lagged associations between maternal depressive symptoms and children's BMI, obesity and food consumption, controlling for background characteristics.

Setting

Data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), a longitudinal study of children from infancy through kindergarten in the USA, were collected at four waves from 2001 to 2007, when children were 9 months, 2 years, 4 years and 5½years of age, through surveys, child assessments and observations.

Subjects

A sub-sample of children from the ECLS-

SUBMITTER: Morrissey TW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10282476 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature