Trial reportPediatric obesity2020
Effect of a responsive parenting intervention on child emotional overeating is mediated by reduced maternal use of food to soothe: The INSIGHT RCT.
Trial report in Pediatric obesity, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Associations of sugar-related food parenting practices and parental feeding styles with prospective dietary behavior of children and adolescents: a systematic review of the literature from 2017 to 2023.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
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- The effects of a music enrichment program on parent-infant interactions during mealtime: A randomized controlled trial.Appetite · 2023Trial
- Early Reward Learning and the Origins of Obesity: Food, Non-Food Reward, and Developing Self-Regulation.Current obesity reports · 2026Review
- Mapping What Works to Strengthen the Relational Ecology of Early Child Development: A Systematic Scoping Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2026Article
- Protocol for the infant growth and development (iGrowUp) study: the role of food and non-food self-regulation in children's obesity-related risk.BMC public health · 2025Article
- THRIVE 2.0: A randomized-controlled trial of an obesity prevention intervention designed for infants in pediatric primary care.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2025Article
- The development of emotional overeating: a longitudinal twin study from toddlerhood to early adolescence.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Article
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- Community Solutions to Increase the Healthfulness of Grocery Stores: Perspectives of Immigrant Parents.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Associations of parent feeding behaviors and early life food exposures with early childhood appetitive traits in an observational cohort study.Physiology & behavior · 2023Observational
- The impact of swaddling upon breastfeeding: A critical review.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2023Review
- The Development of Appetite: Tracking and Age-Related Differences in Appetitive Traits in Childhood.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Sequential mediation of early temperament and eating behaviors in the pathways from feeding practices to childhood overweight and obesity.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Relationships between parental responsive feeding and infant appetitive traits: The moderating role of infant temperament.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Maternal sleep problems, depression, and infant negative emotionality are associated with maternal feeding to soothe in early infancy.Appetite · 2022Article
- Examining the Relationship between Infant Weight Status and Parent-Infant Interactions within a Food and Nonfood Context.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2022Article
- Predicting preschool children's emotional eating: The role of parents' emotional eating, feeding practices and child temperament.Maternal & child nutrition · 2022Article
- The prospective relation between eating behaviors and BMI from middle childhood to adolescence: A 5-wave community study.Preventive medicine reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundChild emotional overeating is a risk factor for obesity that is learned in the home environment. Parents' use of food to soothe child distress may contribute to the development of children's emotional overeating.
objectivesTo examine the effect of a responsive parenting (RP) intervention on mother-reported child emotional overeating, and explore whether effects are mediated by mother-reported use of food to soothe child distress.
methodsThe sample included primiparous mother-infant dyads randomized to a RP intervention (n = 105) or home safety control group (n = 102). Nurses delivered RP guidance in four behavioral domains: sleeping, fussy, alert/calm, and drowsy. Mothers reported their use of food to soothe at age 18 months and child emotional overeating at age 30 months. Mediation was analyzed using the SAS PROCESS macro.
resultsRP intervention mothers reported less frequent use of food to soothe and perceived their child's emotional overeating as lower compared to the control group. Food to soothe mediated the RP intervention effect on child emotional overeating (mediation model: R
conclusionsChildren's emotional overeating may be modified through an early life RP intervention. Teaching parents alternative techniques to soothe child distress rather than feeding may curb emotional overeating development to reduce future obesity risk.
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