ArticlePublic health nutrition2018
What's the fuss about? Parent presentations of fussy eating to a parenting support helpline.
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- Childhood fussy/picky eating behaviours: a systematic review and synthesis of qualitative studies.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2020Pooled it
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- Talking About Weight with Children: Associations with Parental Stigma, Bias, Attitudes, and Child Weight Status.Nutrients · 2025Article
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- Caregiver Influences on Eating Behaviors in Children: An Opportunity for Preventing Obesity.Current atherosclerosis reports · 2023Review
- Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder, other eating difficulties and compromised growth in 72 children: background and associated factors.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
- Interrelated development of autism spectrum disorder symptoms and eating problems in childhood: a population-based cohort.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Article
- The lived experience of parenting a child with sensory sensitivity and picky eating.Maternal & child nutrition · 2022Article
- The Lived Experiences of Fathers in Mealtimes: A Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Literature.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Fussy eating in toddlers: A content analysis of parents' online support seeking.Maternal & child nutrition · 2021Article
- Dishing on dinner: a life course approach to understanding the family meal context among families with preschoolers.Public health nutrition · 2021Article
- Exploring Feeding Practices and Food Literacy in Parents with Young Children from Disadvantaged Areas.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Maternal anxiety and diet quality among mothers and toddlers from low-income households.Maternal & child nutrition · 2020Article
- Caregiver Influences on Eating Behaviors in Young Children: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2020Review
- A Functional Approach to Feeding Difficulties in Children.Current gastroenterology reports · 2019Review
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Abstract
objectiveTo characterise parent presentations of fussy eating and mealtime interactions at a point of crisis, through analyses of real-time recordings of calls to a parenting helpline.
designQualitative analysis included an inductive thematic approach to examine clinical parent presentations of fussy eating and derive underlying themes relating to mealtime interactions.
settingCalls made to the Child Health Line regarding feeding concerns were recorded and transcribed verbatim. SUBJECTS: From a corpus of 723 calls made during a 4-week period in 2009, twelve were from parents of children aged 6-48 months.
resultsParents of infants (≤12 months, n 6) presented feeding concerns as learning challenges in the process of transitioning from a milk-based to a solid-based diet, while parents of toddlers (13-48 months, n 6) presented emotional accounts of feeding as an intractable problem. Parents presented their child's eating behaviour as a battle (conflict), in which their children's agency over limited intake and variety of foods (child control) was constructed as 'bad' or 'wrong'. Escalating parent anxiety (parent concern) had evoked parent non-responsive feeding practices or provision of foods the child preferred.
conclusionsReal-time descriptions of young children's fussy eating at a time of crisis that initiated parents' call for help have captured the highly charged emotional underpinnings of mealtime interactions associated with fussy eating. Importantly, they show the child's emerging assertion of food autonomy can escalate parents' emotional distress that, in the short term, initiates non-responsive feeding practices. The current study identifies the importance of educational and emotional support for parents across the period of introducing solids.
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