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COVID-19 pandemic shifts in food-related parenting practices within an ethnically/racially and socioeconomically diverse sample of families of preschool-aged children.
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- Variation of parental feeding practices during the COVID-2019 pandemic: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2022Pooled it
- 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
- Parental use of structure-based and autonomy support feeding practices with children with avid eating behaviour: an Ecological Momentary Assessment study.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Article
- Examining the Longitudinal Impact of Within- and Between-Day Fluctuations in Food Parenting Practices on Child Dietary Intake: Protocol for a Longitudinal Cohort Study Within a Sample of Preschooler-Parent Dyads.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Parent-Reported Feeding Practices Associated With Children's Observed Willingness-to-Try-New-Foods in Childcare.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Article
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- Spillover from parent stress to family meals among diverse families: An ecological momentary assessment study.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2024Article
- Examining Parent Mood, Feeding Context, and Feeding Goals as Predictors of Feeding Practices Used by Parents of Preschool Children With Avid Eating Behavior: Protocol for an Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
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- Parents of preschoolers use multiple strategies to feed their children: Findings from an observational video pilot study.Appetite · 2023Observational
- Parental Worry About COVID-19 in Preschool Children's Mothers During the Pandemic Waves: The Role of Maternal Negative Feelings and Parenting Styles.Maternal and child health journal · 2023Article
- Examining the Contributions of Parents' Daily Hassles and Parenting Approaches to Children's Behavior Problems during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Perceptions of Parental Support for Physical Activity and Healthy Eating among School-age Children During COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of healthy eating and active living · 2023Article
- A longitudinal study on changes in food parenting practices during COVID-19 and the role of parental well-being.Appetite · 2023Article
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- Food and beverage offerings by parents of preschoolers: A daily survey study of dinner offerings during COVID-19.Appetite · 2022Article
- Changes to the home food environment and parent feeding practices during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative exploration.Appetite · 2022Article
- Momentary predictors of a broad range of food parenting practices within a population-based sample of parents of preschool-aged children.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- The impact of COVID-19 on disease epidemiology, family dynamics, and social justice in Minnesota: All that you cannot see.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2022Article
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Abstract
This study aimed to evaluate the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on food parenting practices used by parents of young children. Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) was used to evaluate parents' use of coercive, indulgent, structured, and autonomy supportive food parenting practices before and during the COVID-19 pandemic among a diverse racial/ethnic sample (n = 72) of parents of preschool-aged children. The impact of parent and child mood/behavior on use of specific food parenting practices was also evaluated during both time periods. Results revealed that most parents of preschoolers use a variety of food parenting practices, including coercive control, indulgence, structure, and autonomy support practices. The use of structured and autonomy supportive practices, however, decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Further, the types of practices used by parents were contextually associated with the mood of the parent as well as child mood. Parent negative mood during COVID-19 was associated with higher levels of coercive control and indulgence and lower levels of structure, whereas child positive child mood was associated with greater use of autonomy supportive practices. These findings suggest that effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on family dynamics around feeding young children include shifts away from theoretically supportive approaches to parenting and highlight the roles of parent and child mood/behavior as potentially important momentary influences on food parenting during this time. Public health practitioners and clinicians working with parents of young children during COVID-19, and in years to come, should consider the potential impact of parental mood and stress, as well as child mood and behaviors. Additional research is needed to better understand how to best help parents maintain supportive feeding practices in the face of challenging situations.
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