Maternal feeding practices and children's food intake during an ad libitum buffet meal: Results from the GUSTO cohort.

ABSTRACT: Parents' feeding practices have been shown to be associated with children's food intake and weight status, but little is known about feeding practices in Asian countries. This study used behavioral observation to explore the feeding practices of 201 mothers of 4.5 year-old children in Singapore during an ad libitum buffet lunch. Feeding practices were coded from videos, focusing on behaviors used to prompt the child to eat more food (autonomy-supportive and coercive-controlling prompts to eat, suggesting items from buffet), those to reduce intake (restriction, questioning food choice), and those related to eating rate (hurrying or slowing child eating). Child outcome measures included energy consumed, variety of food items selected, and BMI. Maternal restriction and trying to slow child eating rate were associated with higher energy consumed by the child (r?=?0.19 and 0.13, respectively; p?

SUBMITTER: Fries LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6682493 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature