Concordance in dietary intake among caregivers and infants during the period of complementary feeding: A scoping review.

ABSTRACT: Dietary intake during infancy shapes later food preferences and is important for short- and long-term health and wellbeing. Although caregivers are thought to influence the developing food preferences of infants, children less than two years have been notably absent in existing meta-analyses on the topic. This scoping review seeks to fill this gap by using a systematic process to identify and summarize the published literature on the resemblance of caregiver and infant diet during the period of complementary feeding (6-23 months). Articles were included if they assessed intake of foods or beverages other than human milk or commercial milk formula and reported a test of association between the intake of caregivers and infants. Four electronic databases (PubMed, EMBASE, Scopus, and Global He

SUBMITTER: Bernate Angulo SV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11027945 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature