ArticlePublic health nutrition2018
Predicting weight status in Chinese pre-school children: independent and interactive effects of caregiver types and feeding styles.
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- Association of feeding and parenting styles with adiposity in young children: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European journal of pediatrics · 2025Pooled it
- Grandparent Coresidence and Risk of Early Child Overweight and Obesity in Low-Income, Hispanic Families in New York City.Academic pediatricsTrial
- Identifying Parental Feeding Patterns in a Spanish Sample of Toddlers Using a Latent Class Analysis.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Article
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- Nonresponsive Parenting Feeding Styles and Practices and Risk of Overweight and Obesity among Chinese Children Living Outside Mainland China: An Integrative Review of the Literature.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
- Is the Prospective Link between Parental Stress and Adolescent Snack Intake or Weight Outcome Mediated by Food Parenting Practices?Nutrients · 2021Article
- Parent Gender Affects the Influence of Parent Emotional Eating and Feeding Practices on Child Emotional Eating.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo investigate caregiver type as a potential moderating effect in the relationship between feeding style and weight status among Chinese pre-school children.
designCross-sectional data collected with the Caregiver's Feeding Style Questionnaire (CFSQ), anthropometric data, childcare and sociodemographic information.
settingShenyang, China. SUBJECTS: Caregiver-child dyads (n 857).
resultsAfter controlling for confounders, authoritarian feeding style was associated with a 0·30 lower BMI Z-score. Fathers as primary caregivers were related to lower BMI Z-score (β=-0·66), while grandparents as main caregivers were associated with higher BMI Z-score (β=0·66) after adjusting for covariates. Mothers buffered the relationship between authoritarian (β=0·50, 95 % CI 0·04, 0·95) or indulgent (β=-0·60, 95 % CI -1·06, -0·14) feeding styles and BMI Z-score. Grandparents strengthened the trend that indulgent feeding style was related to higher BMI Z-score (β=0·54, 95 % CI 0·01, 1·08).
conclusionsThe results of independent and interactive effects of specific feeding styles and caregiver types had different influences on child BMI Z-scores. Longitudinal investigations are needed to evaluate the effect of fathers' and grandparents' feeding on their children's nutrition and weight status.
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