Prospective associations of parental smoking, alcohol use, marital status, maternal satisfaction, and parental and childhood body mass index at 6.5 years with later problematic eating attitudes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Few studies have prospectively investigated whether early-life exposures are associated with pre-adolescent eating attitudes.

Objective

The objective of this study is to prospectively investigate associations of parental smoking, alcohol use, marital status, measures of maternal satisfaction, self-reported parental body mass index (BMI) and clinically measured childhood BMI, assessed between birth and 6.5 years, with problematic eating attitudes at 11.5 years.

Methods

Observational cohort analysis nested within the Promotion of Breastfeeding Intervention Trial, a cluster-randomised trial conducted in 31 maternity hospitals and affiliated polyclinics in Belarus. Our primary outcome was a Children's Eating Attitudes Test (ChEAT) score 22.5 (85th percentile),

SUBMITTER: Wade KH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3904081 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature