Examining Parent Mood, Feeding Context, and Feeding Goals as Predictors of Feeding Practices Used by Parents of Preschool Children With Avid Eating Behavior : Protocol for an Ecological Momentary Assessment Study

©Katie Edwards, Helen Croker, Claire Farrow, Emma Haycraft, Moritz Herle, Clare Llewellyn, Abigail Pickard, Jacqueline Blissett. Originally published in JMIR Research Protocols (https://www.researchprotocols.org), 19.03.2024..

BACKGROUND: An avid eating behavior profile is characterized by a greater interest in food and a tendency to overeat in response to negative emotions. Parents use specific strategies to manage feeding interactions with children with avid eating behavior. While momentary and contextual factors, such as parental mood, have been found to influence parental feeding practices, there is a lack of research examining parents' daily experiences of feeding children with avid eating behavior. Examining this is important because parental feeding practices are key levers in tailored interventions to support children's healthy eating behavior.

OBJECTIVE: We aim to describe the ecological momentary assessment methods and procedures used in the APPETItE (Appetite in Preschoolers: Producing Evidence for Tailoring Interventions Effectively) project, which aims to examine how variation in parental mood, feeding goals, and the context of eating occasions affect the parental feeding practices used to manage feeding interactions with children with an avid eating behavior profile.

METHODS: Participants are primary caregivers from the APPETItE cohort who have a preschool-age child (aged 3-5 years) with an avid eating behavior profile. Caregivers complete a 10-day ecological momentary assessment period using signal- and event-contingent surveys to examine (1) mood and stress, (2) parental feeding goals, and (3) contextual factors as predictors of parental feeding practices.

RESULTS: Recruitment and data collection began in October 2023 and is expected to be completed by spring 2024. The data have a 3-level structure: repeated measurements (level 1) nested within days (level 2) nested within an individual (level 3). Thus, lag-dependent models will be conducted to test the main hypotheses.

CONCLUSIONS: The findings from this study will provide an understanding of caregivers' daily experiences of feeding preschool children with avid eating behavior, who are at greater risk for the development of obesity. Understanding the predictors of feeding practices at the moment they occur, and across various contexts, will inform the development of tailored resources to support caregivers in managing children's avid eating behavior.

INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT IDENTIFIER (IRRID): DERR1-10.2196/55193.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

JMIR research protocols - 13(2024) vom: 19. März, Seite e55193

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Edwards, Katie [VerfasserIn]
Croker, Helen [VerfasserIn]
Farrow, Claire [VerfasserIn]
Haycraft, Emma [VerfasserIn]
Herle, Moritz [VerfasserIn]
Llewellyn, Clare [VerfasserIn]
Pickard, Abigail [VerfasserIn]
Blissett, Jacqueline [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Avid eating
Children
Children’s eating behavior
Eating behaviour
Ecological momentary assessment
Environmental factors
Feeding
Feeding behaviour
Journal Article
Obesity
Observational study
Parent
Parental feeding practices
United Kingdom

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Date Revised 05.04.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.2196/55193

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369918126