Do children with obesity have worse table manners? Associations between child table manners, weight status and weight gain.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children with obesity experience stigma stemming from stereotypes, one such stereotype is that people with obesity are "sloppy" or have poor manners. Teaching children "proper table manners" has been proposed as an obesity prevention strategy. Little is known about the association between children's weight status and table manners.

Objectives

To examine correlates of child table manners and to examine the association of child table manners with child obese weight status and prospective change in child body mass index z-score (BMIz).

Methods

Mother-child dyads (N = 228) participated in a videotaped laboratory eating task with cupcakes. Coding schemes to capture child table manners (making crumbs, chewing with mouth open, getting food on face, shoving food in

SUBMITTER: Briones NF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5878727 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature