ArticlePediatrics2017
Momentary Parental Stress and Food-Related Parenting Practices.
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- The association between parents' stress and parental feeding practices and feeding styles: Systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.Maternal & child nutrition · 2023Pooled it
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- Transcreating approaches to addressing disproportionate impacts on health in Colorado communities: the Colorado Community Engagement Alliance multi-year study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
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- Association between parental stress, coping, mood, and subsequent child physical activity and screen-time: an ecological momentary assessment study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Child health and psychosocial wellness in the context of maternal role overload and depression.Family relations · 2025Article
- Momentary assessment of parent and child emotion regulation to inform the design of a new emotion-focused parenting app.PloS one · 2025Article
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backgroundResearch suggests that stress and depressed mood are associated with food-related parenting practices (ie, parent feeding practices, types of food served at meals). However, current measures of parental stress, depressed mood, and food-related parenting practices are typically survey-based and assessed as static/unchanging characteristics, failing to account for fluctuations across time and context. Identifying momentary factors that influence parent food-related parenting practices will facilitate the development of effective interventions aimed at promoting healthy food-related parenting practices. In this study, we used ecological momentary assessment to examine the association between momentary factors (eg, stress, depressed mood) occurring early in the day and food-related parenting practices at the evening meal.
methodsChildren aged 5 to 7 years and their families (
resultsHigher stress and depressed mood earlier in the day predicted pressure-to-eat feeding practices and fewer homemade foods served at meals the same night. Effect modification was found for certain racial and/or ethnic groups with regard to engaging in pressure-to-eat feeding practices (ie, America Indian, Somali) or serving fewer homemade meals (ie, African American, Hispanic/Latino) in the face of high stress or depressed mood.
conclusionsClinicians may want to consider discussing with parents the influence stress and depressed mood can have on everyday food-related parenting practices. Additionally, future researchers should consider using real-time interventions to reduce parental stress and depressed mood to promote healthy parent food-related parenting practices.
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