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Parenting style and child-feeding behaviour in predicting children's weight status change in Taiwan.
Public Health Nutr. 2014 May; 17(5):970-8.PH

Abstract

OBJECTIVE

The prevalence of overweight and obesity among children is on the rise worldwide. Prior studies find that parents' child-feeding practices are associated with child weight status and the efficacy of specific parental child-feeding practices can be moderated by parenting styles. In the current longitudinal study, we examined the associations between child-feeding practices and weight status changes over 1 year among a sample of school-aged children in Taiwan.

DESIGN

In autumn 2008, a child-feeding questionnaire and parenting-style questionnaire were administered to parents of the second and fourth graders in an elementary school in Taiwan. The weight and height of the students were measured by a trained school nurse in 2008 and again in 2009.

SETTING

An elementary school in central Taiwan.

SUBJECTS

A total of 465 parent-child pairs were included in the analysis.

RESULTS

Using a gender- and age-adjusted BMI classification scheme issued by the Taiwan Department of Health, 29·2 % of the students were considered overweight at the 2009 measurement. Controlling for 2008 weight status revealed moderating effects of parenting style on the relationship between child-feeding practices and child weight status. Both authoritative and authoritarian mothers might monitor their children's dietary intake; however, the effectiveness of this practice was better, in terms of weight status control, among the authoritative mothers.

CONCLUSIONS

Findings suggest that parenting styles have a moderating effect on specific parental child-feeding practices. Parenting styles and parent's feeding practices could be an important focus for future public health interventions addressing the rising childhood obesity epidemic.

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Tung HJ
1 Department of Healthcare Administration, Asia University, 500 Lioufeng Road, Wufeng, Taichung 41354, Taiwan.
Yeh MC
2 Nutrition Program, CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA.

MeSH

AdultAuthoritarianismBody Mass IndexChildChild BehaviorCross-Sectional StudiesDietFeeding BehaviorFemaleHumansLongitudinal StudiesMaleMothersOverweightParentingPediatric ObesityPrevalenceSurveys and QuestionnairesTaiwanWeight Gain

Pub Type(s)

Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Language

eng

PubMed ID

23332023

Citation

Tung, Ho-Jui, and Ming-Chin Yeh. "Parenting Style and Child-feeding Behaviour in Predicting Children's Weight Status Change in Taiwan." Public Health Nutrition, vol. 17, no. 5, 2014, pp. 970-8.
Tung HJ, Yeh MC. Parenting style and child-feeding behaviour in predicting children's weight status change in Taiwan. Public Health Nutr. 2014;17(5):970-8.
Tung, H. J., & Yeh, M. C. (2014). Parenting style and child-feeding behaviour in predicting children's weight status change in Taiwan. Public Health Nutrition, 17(5), 970-8. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980012005502
Tung HJ, Yeh MC. Parenting Style and Child-feeding Behaviour in Predicting Children's Weight Status Change in Taiwan. Public Health Nutr. 2014;17(5):970-8. PubMed PMID: 23332023.
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