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Associations Between Parental Engagement With Health Professionals and Child Health Behaviours

Eve T House1,2,3,4, Huilan Xu3,4, Louise A Baur1,2,5

  • 1Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Child: Care, Health and Development
|October 29, 2025
PubMed

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Seeking health professional advice on infant feeding was linked to a reduced likelihood of breastfeeding. This highlights opportunities for proactive health promotion in early childhood care settings.

Area of Science:

  • Child Health
  • Public Health Nutrition
  • Infant Feeding Practices

Background:

  • Health professionals are key sources of infant feeding advice.
  • The impact of this advice on feeding and health behaviors is not well understood.
  • This study investigated the link between parental engagement with health professionals for feeding advice and child health behaviors.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the association between parental engagement with health professionals for infant feeding advice in the first six months of life and child health behaviors.
  • To analyze feeding and nutrition behaviors at 6, 12, and 24 months of age.

Main Methods:

  • Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of survey data from a randomized controlled trial in Australia.
  • Parents reported on sources of infant feeding information and child nutrition, feeding, and movement behaviors.
  • Multiple logistic regression models were used to assess associations.

Main Results:

  • Longitudinal analysis showed seeking health professional advice was associated with a lower likelihood of current breastfeeding (aOR = 0.54, 95% CI = 0.41-0.71).
  • No significant association was found between engagement with health professionals and other child health behaviors after adjusting for confounders.

Conclusions:

  • Parental engagement with health professionals for infant feeding support may indicate existing breastfeeding challenges.
  • There is an opportunity for routine health promotion in child healthcare settings to address feeding issues proactively.
  • Early intervention can support healthier infant feeding transitions.
Abstract

Keywords:
breastfeedinghealthcare professionalinfantinfant formulamaternal–child nursing

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