Genetic Risk, Parental Feeding Practices, and Appetitive Traits in Early Life
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Where it's being run
1 sites across 1 statesStudy leadership
- Jennifer Emond, PhD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Dartmouth College
- Diane Gilbert-Diamond, ScD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Dartmouth College
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What this trial measures
- Coercive Parental Food PracticesMeasured every 6 months from baseline until 2.5 years after baseline.
Coercive Parental Food Practices will be assessed using the Child Feeding Questionnaire (CFQ) and Parental Feeding Style Questionnaire (PFSQ). The CFQ restriction subscale, with scores for each of 8 items ranging from 1 to 5 (never to always practice the behavior), will be averaged for a single final Restriction score. The 3 items of the emotional feeding domain from the PFSQ, ranging from 1 to 5 (never to always practice the behavior) will be averaged for a single final Emotional Feeding score.
- Appetitive TraitsMeasured every 6 months from baseline until 2.5 years after baseline.
Child appetitive traits will be assessed via parent report using the validated Children's Eating Behavior Questionnaire (CEBQ). The CEBQ includes subscales to measure food approach and food avoidance traits. Final scores for each subscale is computed as the average across subscale items and range from 1 to 5 (never to always express that trait).
- Eating in the Absence of Hunger.Measured every 6 months from baseline until 2.5 years after baseline.
Eating in the Absence of Hunger. Eating in the absence of hunger will be calculated using established methods (Gilbert-Diamond et al., IJO 2017; Fisher \& Birch., AM J of Clin Nutr 2002). The pre- and post-weights of each snack items will be used to calculate the number of kCals a child consumed. Increased kCal consumption is evidence of increased eating in the absence of hunger.
- AdiposityMeasured every 6 months from baseline until 2.5 years after baseline.
Adiposity in children will be operationalized as the age- and sex-adjusted BMI z-score. Child height and weight at each assessment will be measured in-person and be used to calculate age and sex-specific BMI z-scores based on WHO child growth charts. If the child is lost to follow up and we cannot obtain in-person measures, we will abstract height and weight from the child's medical records if they consented to that data collection during the baseline visit.