Nutritional knowledge, parenting styles and feeding practices of a South African sample of parents

In this 2017 study, thirty-one 2-parent families in Canada were cross-sectionally analyzed and the association between food parenting practices and preschool-age children’s nutrition risk were evaluated. Parents completed an adapted version of the Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire, while the kids’ nutrition risk was calculated using the NutriSTEP score. To account for sibling association, generalized estimating […]

In this 2017 study, the relationship between parental mindful feeding (which is the parent’s mental and emotional presence while feeding a child) and their children’s food intake was investigated. The participants were parents (79% non-Hispanic white; 76% female) of children aged 2.9 to 7.5 years recruited through Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk). In unadjusted models, mindful […]