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The Montreal Children’s Hospital Feeding Scale: Relationships with parental report of child eating behaviours and observed feeding interactions
- Source :
- Appetite. 125:201-209
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2018.
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Abstract
- Feeding problems are common, with implications for nutrition, growth and family stress, placing burden on primary care services. The Montreal Children's Hospital Feeding Scale (MCHFS) is a quick and reliable measure of feeding problems for clinical settings, but there is little examination of its relationship to commonly used research measures of parental feeding practice, child eating behaviour and observations of parent-infant interaction at mealtimes. We examined the relationships between the MCHFS, demographics and early feeding history, weight across the first year, parental report of feeding practices and child eating behaviours, and observations of maternal-infant feeding interaction at 1 year. The MCHFS, Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire (CFPQ) and Child Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (CEBQ) were completed by 69 mothers when their infants were 1-year-old (37 male, 32 female). Infant weight was measured at 1 week, 1 month, 6 months and 1 year. Mothers were observed feeding their infants at 1 year. The MCHFS was reliable (Cronbach's alpha = .90) and showed significant overlap with other measures of feeding and eating. Potential feeding problems were identified in 10 of the children (14%) reflecting similar rates in other community samples. Higher MCHFS scores were associated with lower birthweight and weight across the first year, greater satiety responsiveness, fussiness and slowness in eating, lower enjoyment of food and food responsiveness, and less observed infant food acceptance. Parents of infants with more feeding problems reported less encouragement of balance and variety in their children's diets. Conclusion: MCHFS showed good criterion validity with other parental report measures of eating and observations of mealtime interactions. MCHFS may be a useful tool for researching feeding problems in community samples.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Parents
Pleasure
0301 basic medicine
Mothers
Early feeding
Satiety Response
Severity of Illness Index
Feeding and Eating Disorders
Eating
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Cronbach's alpha
Surveys and Questionnaires
Criterion validity
Humans
Medicine
Family stress
030212 general & internal medicine
Eating behaviour
Meals
Growth Disorders
General Psychology
030109 nutrition & dietetics
Nutrition and Dietetics
business.industry
Body Weight
Infant, Newborn
Infant
Reproducibility of Results
Feeding Behavior
Mother-Child Relations
Diet
Feeding problems
Scale (social sciences)
Infant Behavior
Female
Infant Food
Parental feeding
business
Demography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 01956663
- Volume :
- 125
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Appetite
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9598c53bcc63703c4f0d333dac985ffd