Association of feeding and parenting styles with adiposity in young children: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT: This systematic review and meta-analysis synthesises global evidence on the different feeding and parenting styles, i.e., authoritative, authoritarian, indulgent, and uninvolved, and their association with adiposity in children from 6 months to 5 years of age. We searched PubMed, Ovid EMBASE, PsycINFO and Web of Science from Jan 1, 1900 to September 1, 2023, and updated the search on June 13, 2025. The primary outcome of interest was childhood adiposity. Statistical synthesis was performed using vote counting based on direction of effect, a method used for synthesizing results, by categorizing the effect of each study as beneficial or harmful based on the direction of effect. The inverse variance heterogeneity (IVhet) model, an estimator under the fixed effect model assumption with a quasi

SUBMITTER: Haridas DN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12321671 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature