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Associations Between Food Insecurity and Parental Feeding Behaviors of Toddlers.
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- Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged five years and under.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- A collaborative approach to develop an intervention to strengthen health visitors' role in prevention of excess weight gain in children.BMC public health · 2022Pooled it
- A Health-Literacy Intervention for Early Childhood Obesity Prevention: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial.Pediatrics · 2021Trial
- Food parenting stress among caregivers receiving government food assistance: a study from the United States.Preventive medicine reports · 2025Article
- Impacts of Food Insecurity on Child Development: Strengthening the Role of Childcare.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Executive functioning is linked to feeding practices and food insecurity in Head Start mothers.Appetite · 2025Article
- Feeding Practices Used by Australian Parents of Young Children Living With Food Insecurity and Household Chaos.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Article
- Applying an Equity Lens to Pediatric Obesity: Clinical, Environmental, and Policy Considerations for Clinicians.Pediatric clinics of North America · 2024Review
- Breastfeeding, Walking Onset, and Abdominal Obesity Are Determinants of Physical Fitness among Latin American and Spanish Schoolchildren: A Cross-Cultural Study.Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Evaluation of Income and Food Insecurity as Risk Factors for Failure to Thrive: An Analysis of National Survey Data.Clinical pediatrics · 2023Article
- Feeding, television, and sleep behaviors at one year of age in a diverse sample.Obesity pillars · 2023Article
- Food Insecurity and Parent Feeding Practices in Urban and Rural Children Ages 7-12 years.Journal of nutrition education and behavior · 2023Article
- Forty Years of Behavioral Diabetes Research: A Personal Journey.Diabetes spectrum : a publication of the American Diabetes Association · 2023Article
- Food Insecurity Is Common in the Orthopedic Trauma Population at a Rural Academic Trauma Center.The Iowa orthopaedic journal · 2023Article
- Children and Adolescents Dietary Habits and Lifestyle Changes during COVID-19 Lockdown in Italy.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Parental Feeding Practices in Families Experiencing Food Insecurity: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Time-Varying Associations between Food Insecurity and Infant and Maternal Health Outcomes.The Journal of nutrition · 2022Article
- Food Insecurity and Cardiometabolic Conditions: a Review of Recent Research.Current nutrition reports · 2021Review
- Timing of WIC Enrollment and Responsive Feeding among Low-Income Women in the US.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Exploring Feeding Practices and Food Literacy in Parents with Young Children from Disadvantaged Areas.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveWe examined associations between household food insecurity status and parental feeding behavior, weight perception, and child weight status in a diverse sample of young children.
methodsCross-sectional analysis of 2-year-old children in Greenlight, a cluster randomized trial to prevent childhood obesity. The exposure was food insecurity, defined as a positive response to a validated screen. Outcomes were parent feeding behaviors/beliefs measured by the Child Feeding Questionnaire and child weight status. t tests and linear regression were used to assess associations between food insecurity and each outcome. We adjusted for child sex, race/ethnicity, parent education, employment, site, number of children in the home, and Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children status.
resultsFive hundred three households (37%) were food insecure. After adjusting for covariates, parents from insecure households reported more pressuring feeding behaviors (mean factor score 3.2 compared to food secure parents mean factor score 2.9, P = .01) and were more worried about their child becoming overweight (mean factor score 2.3 vs 2.0; P = .02). No differences were observed in monitoring or restrictive feeding behaviors. After adjusting for covariates, there was no difference in weight status or prevalence of overweight/obesity of children or parents based on household food insecurity status.
conclusionsParents from food insecure households reported more pressuring feeding behaviors. This finding underscores the need to address food insecurity and potentially prevent harmful effects on child feeding. Parents in food insecure households might benefit from linkage with resources and education to develop healthier feeding behaviors.
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