Department of Social Medicine Population and Public Health, 900 University Ave, Riverside, 92501, USA.
Department of Sociology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, USA.
BMC Public Health. 2020 Sep 21;20(1):1431. doi: 10.1186/s12889-020-09471-1.
The prevalence of obesity among children remains high. Given obesity's significant lifelong consequences, there is great interest in preventing obesity early in life. There is a need to better understand the relation of common infant feeding styles and practices to obesity in infants using longitudinal study designs. There is also an urgent need to understand the role of caregivers other than mothers in feeding. A better understanding of variation in feeding styles and practices can inform the identification of risk groups and the tailoring of interventions to them.
In partnership with Early Head Start programs across four counties in southern California, mothers and infants will be enrolled in a two-year longitudinal study collecting survey and anthropometric data. A subsample of mothers and their selected other caregivers will participate in qualitative research involving feeding diaries and dyadic interviews. The results will be used to develop and test an enhanced nutrition education program.
We outline a study methodology to examine feeding styles and practices and their association with early childhood obesity risk and enhance an existing intervention to promote healthy infant feeding and growth among children in low-income families.
儿童肥胖的患病率仍然很高。鉴于肥胖对儿童健康造成的终身影响，人们对在生命早期预防肥胖的兴趣浓厚。因此，需要使用纵向研究设计，更好地了解常见的婴儿喂养方式和实践与婴儿肥胖之间的关系。此外，迫切需要了解除母亲以外的照顾者在喂养中的作用。更好地了解喂养方式和实践的差异可以为确定风险群体提供信息，并为他们量身定制干预措施。
与加利福尼亚州南部四个县的早期开端计划合作，将招募母亲及其婴儿参加一项为期两年的纵向研究，收集调查和人体测量数据。母亲及其选定的其他照顾者的一个子样本将参加涉及喂养日记和双元访谈的定性研究。研究结果将用于开发和测试增强型营养教育计划。
我们概述了一种研究方法，用于检查喂养方式和实践及其与儿童期早期肥胖风险的关系，并增强现有的干预措施，以促进低收入家庭儿童的健康婴儿喂养和生长。
