Parent-child interaction treatment for preschoolers with feeding disorders

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 […]

Alderman & Headey (2017) conducted a novel econometric analysis of 376,992 preschool children from 56 developing countries, to find out how influential parental education is for the child’s nutrition. Mothers appeared to affect nutritional returns to a greater extent than fathers, although the effects may be minimal for primary education. As the household wealth increased, […]