Maternal depressive symptom trajectories and associations with child feeding.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Responsive feeding, when caregivers attend to children's signals of hunger and satiation and respond in an emotionally supportive and developmentally appropriate way, is associated with the development of healthy eating behaviors, improved diet quality, and healthy weight status for children. However, gaps in the literature remain on how factors, such as maternal depressive symptoms and child temperament, influence feeding interactions.

Methods

This longitudinal secondary data analysis explored the association between maternal depressive symptom trajectory and child temperament with maternal feeding practices in women with obesity who participated in a prenatal lifestyle intervention trial. Mothers self-reported depressive symptoms at baseline, 35 weeks gestation,

SUBMITTER: Fox K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11186209 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature