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[Effect of parental feeding behavior on eating behavior of children aged 1-3 years]
1Department of Child Health Care, Shanghai Children's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200040, China. jjvoo@163.com.
Objective:
To investigate the relationship between the eating behavior of children aged 1-3 years and parental feeding behavior and the effect of family status on feeding behavior.
Methods:
With stratified random sampling, 2 324 children aged 1-3 years were selected from Shanghai. Questionnaires were filled out by their parents or feeders to investigate the basic family information, parental feeding behavior, the eating behavior of children, and the basic information on children.
Results:
The eating behavior of children was positively correlated with eating environment (r=0.223) and parental monitoring behavior (r=0.245) but negatively correlated with parental compulsive behavior (r=-0.264) (P<0.01). Moreover, the food preferences of children were negatively correlated with parental compulsive behavior (r=-0.569) but positively correlated with parental monitoring behavior (r=0.615) and eating environment (r=0.621). The emotional undereating of children was positively correlated with parental emotional feeding (r=0.259) and parental compulsive behavior (r=0.279). Parental monitoring behavior showed significant differences between different families (P<0.05).
Conclusions:
Parental feeding behavior is closely related to the eating behavior of children. Parental feeding behavior may vary across different family status.
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