ArticlePreventive medicine reports2020
Associations between parental stress, parent feeding practices, and child eating behaviors within the context of food insecurity.
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- Food insecurity and disordered eating behaviors in children and adolescents: A systematic review.Eating behaviors · 2023Pooled it
- Variation of parental feeding practices during the COVID-2019 pandemic: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2022Pooled it
- Food insecurity moderates the relationship between momentary affect and adherence in a dietary intervention study.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2022Trial
- Parental Perceived Stress and Its Association With Childhood Obesity in Spain: The PASOS Study.Preventing chronic disease · 2026Article
- Parenting Style, Caregiver Stress, and Energy-Dense Feeding Episodes in Low-Income Preschoolers: A Pilot Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.Nutrients · 2026Article
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- How Does Household Food Insecurity Impact Complementary Feeding, in High Income Countries, in a Cost-of-Living Crisis? A Systematic Scoping Review.Maternal & child nutrition · 2026Article
- Parental Mental Health, Feeding Practices, and Sociodemographic Factors as Determinants of Childhood Obesity in Greece.Nutrients · 2026Article
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- Navigating through trauma-informed care and behavioral treatment in young children with feeding problems.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
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- The right dose of data: balancing reliability and participant burden in a validated daily measure of food parenting practices.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Article
- Socio-Demographic Determinants of Dietary Strategies of Mothers of School-Aged Children-A Study in Pomeranian Province.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Household food insecurity and its impact on child and adolescent health outcomes in Western high-income countries: a rapid review of mechanisms and associations.Public health nutrition · 2025Review
- Food parenting stress among caregivers receiving government food assistance: a study from the United States.Preventive medicine reports · 2025Article
- Acceptability and satisfaction of a mindfulness-based healthy eating and stress management program targeting economically marginalized families in a pilot trial.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2025Article
- Feeding Practices Used by Australian Parents of Young Children Living With Food Insecurity and Household Chaos.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Article
- The Factors Influencing Feeding Practices of Primary Caregivers of Preschoolers: A Theory-Based Cross-Sectional Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Prevalence and associated factors of psychological distress among caregivers of children with malnutrition: a cross‑sectional study.BMC public health · 2025Article
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Abstract
Food insecurity is becoming increasingly prevalent, especially for children from diverse households. Food insecurity presents a potentially different context in which parents engage in food-related parenting practices and children engage in eating behaviors. Parents may also experience higher levels of stress and depressed mood in the context of food insecurity. This study aims to examine associations between momentary parental stress and depressed mood, food-related parenting practices, and child eating behaviors within food secure and insecure households. Children ages 5-7 and their families (n = 150) from six racial/ethnic groups (n = 25 each African American, Hispanic, Hmong, Native American, Somali, White) were recruited for this mixed-methods study through primary care clinics in Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN in 2015-2016. High levels of parental stress and depressed mood experienced earlier in the day within food insecure households was associated with using restrictive feeding practices and serving more pre-prepared foods at the evening meal the same night. Parents from food secure households who experienced high levels of stress earlier in the day were more likely to engage in pressure-to-eat feeding practices, serve more fast food, and to have children who engaged in picky eating behaviors at the evening meal the same night. Health care clinicians may want to consider, or continue to, screen parents for food insecurity, stress, and depressed mood during well child visits and discuss the influence these factors may have on every day food-related parenting practices. Additionally, future research should consider using real-time interventions to reduce parental stress to promote healthy food-related parenting practices within food insecure and secure households.
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