Bidirectional associations between mothers’ feeding practices and child eating behaviours

While childhood obesity is an expensive public health concern, Neic et al. (2020) explain that it is preventable and the child’s risk can be potentially reduced by strengthening the parent-child relationship and by showing parents strategies to deal with their child’s general and health-related behaviors. Parents seeking to eliminate their child’s risk factors may benefit […]

This follow-up study by Pickard et al. (2024) builds upon previous research using Latent Profile Analysis (LPA) to examine the eating behavior profiles of children aged 3-6 years. Four different eating characteristics in youngsters were found in the previous study: avoidant, cheerful, enthusiastic, and usual eating. In this study, parents of these children (N = […]