Taylor Maija B, Emley Elizabeth, Pratt Mercedes, Musher-Eizenman Dara R
Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, United States.
Appetite. 2017 Jul 1;114:47-54. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2017.03.023. Epub 2017 Mar 19.
This study examined the relationship between structure, autonomy promotion, and control feeding strategies and parent-reported child diet.
Participants (N = 497) were parents of children ages 2.5 to 7.5 recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk. This sample was a Caucasian (79%), educated sample (61% college graduates) with most reports from mothers (76%).
Online survey including measures of parent feeding strategies and child dietary intake.
Use of structure-based feeding strategies explained 21% of the variance in child consumption of added sugar, 12% of the variance in child intake of added sugar from sugar-sweetened beverages, and 16% of the variance in child consumption of fruits and vegetables. Higher unhealthy food availability and permissive feeding uniquely predicted higher child added sugar intake and child consumption of added sugar from sugar-sweetened beverages. Greater healthy food availability uniquely predicted higher child fruit and vegetable intake.
and Future Directions: In Caucasian educated families, structure-based feeding strategies appear to be a relatively stronger correlate of parent-reported child intake of added sugar and fruits and vegetables as compared to autonomy promotion and control feeding strategies. Longitudinal research may be needed in order to reveal the relationships between autonomy promotion and control feeding strategies with child diet. If future studies have similar findings to this study's results, researchers may want to focus more heavily on investigating the impact of teaching parents stimulus-control techniques and feeding-related assertiveness skills on child dietary intake.
本研究探讨了结构化喂养策略、自主性促进策略和控制型喂养策略与家长报告的儿童饮食之间的关系。
参与者（N = 497）是从亚马逊土耳其机器人平台招募的2.5至7.5岁儿童的家长。该样本以白种人为主（79%），受教育程度较高（61%为大学毕业生），大多数报告来自母亲（76%）。
在线调查，包括家长喂养策略和儿童饮食摄入量的测量。
基于结构化的喂养策略解释了儿童添加糖摄入量差异的21%、儿童从含糖饮料中摄入添加糖量差异的12%以及儿童水果和蔬菜摄入量差异的16%。更高的不健康食品可得性和宽松型喂养方式独特地预测了儿童更高的添加糖摄入量以及儿童从含糖饮料中摄入的添加糖量。更高的健康食品可得性独特地预测了儿童更高的水果和蔬菜摄入量。
在白种人受教育家庭中，与自主性促进策略和控制型喂养策略相比，基于结构化的喂养策略似乎与家长报告的儿童添加糖、水果和蔬菜摄入量的相关性相对更强。可能需要进行纵向研究以揭示自主性促进策略和控制型喂养策略与儿童饮食之间的关系。如果未来的研究有与本研究结果相似的发现，研究人员可能希望更着重于调查教导家长刺激控制技巧和与喂养相关的坚定性技能对儿童饮食摄入量的影响。
