INSIGHT responsive parenting intervention and infant feeding practices: randomized clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

What, when, how, how much, and how often infants are fed have been associated with childhood obesity risk. The objective of this secondary analysis was to examine the effect of a responsive parenting (RP) intervention designed for obesity prevention on parents' infant feeding practices in the first year after birth.

Methods

Primiparous mother-newborn dyads were randomized to the Intervention Nurses Start Infants Growing on Healthy Trajectories (INSIGHT) Study RP intervention or child safety control. Research nurses delivered intervention content at home at infant age 3-4, 16, 28, and 40 weeks, and at a research center at 1 year. RP feeding guidance advised feeding that was contingent (i.e., feed in response to hunger and satiety signs, alternatives to using food t

SUBMITTER: Savage JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6038199 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature