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      Bi-directional associations between child fussy eating and parents’ pressure to eat: who influences whom?

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          Abstract

          Background

          Fussy eating is common in young children, often raising concerns among parents. The use of pressuring feeding practices may provoke or worsen child fussiness, but these practices could equally be a parent’s response to child fussy eating.

          Objective

          In longitudinal analyses, we assessed directionality in the relation between fussy eating and parent’s pressure to eat across childhood.

          Methods

          Study participants were 4845 mother-child dyads from the population-based Generation R cohort in the Netherlands. The Child Behavior Checklist was used to assess fussy eating (2 items) at child ages 1½, 3 and 6 years. Parents’ pressure to eat was assessed with the Child Feeding Questionnaire (4 items) when children were 4 years old. All scale scores were standardized.

          Results

          Linear regression analyses indicated that preschoolers’ fussy eating prospectively predicted higher levels of parents’ pressure to eat at child age 4 years, independently of confounders (adjusted B=0.24, 95% CI: 0.21, 0.27). Pressure to eat at 4 years also predicted more fussiness in children at age 6 years, independently of confounders and of fussy eating at baseline (adjusted B=0.14, 95% CI: 0.11, 0.17). Path analyses indicated that the relation from fussy eating at 3 years to parenting one year later was stronger than from pressure at 4 years to fussy eating two years later (p<0.001).

          Conclusions

          Our findings suggest bi-directional associations with parental pressuring feeding strategies being developed in response to children’s food avoidant behaviors, but also seemingly having a counterproductive effect on fussiness. Thus, the use of pressure to eat should be reconsidered, while providing parents alternative techniques to deal with their child’s fussy eating.

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          Confirmatory factor analysis of the Child Feeding Questionnaire: a measure of parental attitudes, beliefs and practices about child feeding and obesity proneness.

          The Child Feeding Questionnaire (CFQ) is a self-report measure to assess parental beliefs, attitudes, and practices regarding child feeding, with a focus on obesity proneness in children. Confirmatory factor analysis tested a 7-factor model, which included four factors measuring parental beliefs related to child's obesity proneness, and three factors measuring parental control practices and attitudes regarding child feeding. Using a sample of 394 mothers and fathers, three models were tested, and the third model confirmed an acceptable fit, including correlated factors. Internal consistencies for the seven factors were above 0.70. With minor changes, this same 7-factor model was also confirmed in a second sample of 148 mothers and fathers, and a third sample of 126 Hispanic mothers and fathers. As predicted, four of the seven factors were related to an independent measure of children's weight status, providing initial support for the validity of the instrument. The CFQ can be used to assess aspects of child-feeding perceptions, attitudes, and practices and their relationships to children's developing food acceptance patterns, the controls of food intake, and obesity. The CFQ is designed for use with parents of children ranging in age from about 2 to 11 years of age. Copyright 2000 Academic Press.
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            Development of the Children's Eating Behaviour Questionnaire.

            Individual differences in several aspects of eating style have been implicated in the development of weight problems in children and adults, but there are presently no reliable and valid scales that assess a range of dimensions of eating style. This paper describes the development and preliminary validation of a parent-rated instrument to assess eight dimensions of eating style in children; the Children's Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (CEBQ). Constructs for inclusion were derived both from the existing literature on eating behaviour in children and adults, and from interviews with parents. They included responsiveness to food, enjoyment of food, satiety responsiveness, slowness in eating. fussiness, emotional overeating, emotional undereating. and desire for drinks. A large pool of items covering each of these constructs was developed. The number of items was then successively culled through analysis of responses from three samples of families of young children (N = 131; N = 187; N = 218), to produce a 35-item instrument with eight scales which were internally valid and had good test-retest reliability. Investigation of variations by gender and age revealed only minimal gender differences in any aspect of eating style. Satiety responsiveness and slowness in eating diminished from age 3 to 8. Enjoyment of food and food responsiveness increased over this age range. The CEBQ should provide a useful measure of eating style for research into the early precursors of obesity or eating disorders. This is especially important in relation to the growing evidence for the heritability of obesity, where good measurement of the associated behavioural phenotype will be crucial in investigating the contribution of inherited variations in eating behaviour to the process of weight gain.
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              The Generation R Study: Biobank update 2015.

              The Generation R Study is a population-based prospective cohort study from fetal life until adulthood. The study is designed to identify early environmental and genetic causes and causal pathways leading to normal and abnormal growth, development and health from fetal life, childhood and young adulthood. In total, 9,778 mothers were enrolled in the study. Data collection in children and their parents include questionnaires, interviews, detailed physical and ultrasound examinations, behavioural observations, Magnetic Resonance Imaging and biological samples. Efforts have been conducted for collecting biological samples including blood, hair, faeces, nasal swabs, saliva and urine samples and generating genomics data on DNA, RNA and microbiome. In this paper, we give an update of the collection, processing and storage of these biological samples and available measures. Together with detailed phenotype measurements, these biological samples provide a unique resource for epidemiological studies focused on environmental exposures, genetic and genomic determinants and their interactions in relation to growth, health and development from fetal life onwards.
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                Author and article information

                Journal
                0151504
                6462
                Physiol Behav
                Physiol. Behav.
                Physiology & behavior
                0031-9384
                1873-507X
                26 April 2017
                16 February 2017
                01 July 2017
                01 July 2018
                : 176
                : 101-106
                Affiliations
                [a ]Institute of Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam
                [b ]Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry / Psychology, Erasmus MC-Sophia
                [c ]The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center Rotterdam
                [d ]Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center Rotterdam
                [e ]Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC-Sophia
                [f ]Department of Psychiatry, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center Rotterdam; all in the Netherlands
                Author notes
                Corresponding author: Pauline W. Jansen, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry / Psychology, Erasmus MC-Sophia, PO BOX 2060, 3000 CB Rotterdam, The Netherlands. p.w.jansen@ 123456erasmusmc.nl
                Article
                EMS72519
                10.1016/j.physbeh.2017.02.015
                5436628
                28215424
                63199474-4951-4e3a-9b32-c07410e25913

                This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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                Anatomy & Physiology
                fussy eating,pickiness,pressure to eat,controlling feeding,children,longitudinal
                Anatomy & Physiology
                fussy eating, pickiness, pressure to eat, controlling feeding, children, longitudinal

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