SynthesisThe Journal of nutrition2011
A systematic review of responsive feeding and child obesity in high-income countries.
Synthesis in The Journal of nutrition, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 183 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Healthy Children, Healthy Families: Parents Making A Difference: A Randomized Controlled Trial
INFANT HEALTH- Supporting Infants' Mental Health and Healthy Weight Development Through Community Health Nurses' Promoting Sensitive Parenting
Who cites it
183 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Association of feeding and parenting styles with adiposity in young children: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European journal of pediatrics · 2025Pooled it
- Developing a core outcome set for childhood obesity prevention: A systematic review.Maternal & child nutrition · 2019Pooled it
- Associations between Breastfeeding and Maternal Responsiveness: A Systematic Review of the Literature.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2017Pooled it
- A qualitative systematic review of maternal infant feeding practices in transitioning from milk feeds to family foods.Maternal & child nutrition · 2017Pooled it
- A systematic review of grandparents' influence on grandchildren's cancer risk factors.PloS one · 2017Pooled it
- Communicating hunger and satiation in the first 2 years of life: a systematic review.Maternal & child nutrition · 2016Pooled it
- Effects of parent and child behaviours on overweight and obesity in infants and young children from disadvantaged backgrounds: systematic review with narrative synthesis.BMC public health · 2016Pooled it
- Systematic review: mealtime behavior measures used in pediatric chronic illness populations.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2015Pooled it
- Helping families thrive while developing a strong working alliance: The benefits of Recipe 4 Success.Infant mental health journal · 2026Trial
- Cognitive Stimulation and Maternal Feeding Styles in Families with Low Incomes: Impacts from a Randomized Clinical Trial.Academic pediatrics · 2025Trial
- Effects of responsive breastfeeding intervention on breastfeeding and infant growth in China: A randomised controlled trial.Maternal & child nutrition · 2024Trial
- Parent-Child Interaction Therapy Supports Healthy Eating Behavior in Child Welfare-Involved Children.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Trial
- The Baby's First Bites RCT: Evaluating a Vegetable-Exposure and a Sensitive-Feeding Intervention in Terms of Child Health Outcomes and Maternal Feeding Behavior During Toddlerhood.The Journal of nutrition · 2022Trial
- Maternal characteristics influence infant feeding styles in Caribbean women.Public health nutrition · 2021Trial
- Parental phone use during mealtimes with toddlers and the associations with feeding practices and shared family meals: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2021Trial
- Toddler obesity prevention: A two-generation randomized attention-controlled trial.Maternal & child nutrition · 2021Trial
- Improving Toddlers' Healthy Eating Habits and Self-regulation: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Pediatrics · 2021Trial
- The relationship between maternal dietary patterns during pregnancy in women with gestational diabetes mellitus and infant appetitive feeding behaviour at 6 months.Scientific reports · 2020Trial
- Home-based intervention for non-Hispanic black families finds no significant difference in infant size or growth: results from the Mothers & Others randomized controlled trial.BMC pediatrics · 2020Trial
- Validation of the Infant Feeding Beliefs Questionnaire (IFBQ) among pregnant African- American women and their study partners.Appetite · 2019Trial
123 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Child overweight/obesity continues to be a serious public health problem in high-income countries. The current review had 3 goals: 1) to summarize the associations between responsive feeding and child weight status in high-income countries; 2) to describe existing responsive feeding measures; and 3) to generate suggestions for future research. Articles were obtained from PubMed and PsycInfo using specified search criteria. The majority (24/31) of articles reported significant associations between nonresponsive feeding and child weight-for-height Z-score, BMI Z-score, overweight/obesity, or adiposity. Most studies identified were conducted exclusively in the United States (n = 22), were cross-sectional (n = 25), and used self-report feeding questionnaires (n = 28). A recent trend exists toward conducting research among younger children (i.e. infants and toddlers) and low-income and/or minority populations. Although current evidence suggests that nonresponsive feeding is associated with child BMI or overweight/obesity, more research is needed to understand causality, the reliability and validity between and within existing feeding measures, and to test the efficacy of responsive feeding interventions in the prevention and treatment of child overweight/obesity in high-income countries.
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