Giuliani Nicole R, Kelly Nichole R
University of Oregon, Eugene, USA.
J Prev Health Promot. 2021 Nov;2(2):294-310. doi: 10.1177/26320770211032346. Epub 2021 Aug 5.
Parental distress is associated with less healthful child feeding practices. In this preliminary study, we examined how changes in distress from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic were associated with similar changes in feeding practices in a sample of mothers of preschool-aged children. In addition, we examined how pre-pandemic laboratory measures of maternal self-regulation moderated this association. A total of 36 mothers from an ongoing study on parent and child self-regulation completed surveys assessing parental distress (i.e., maternal depression, parenting stress) and child feeding practices during pandemic-related stay-at-home orders in May-June 2020. These mothers had completed the same measures approximately 2 years earlier, along with laboratory assessments of inhibitory and attentional control. Pre-pandemic laboratory measures of attentional control significantly moderated the association between increased maternal depression and use of controlling feeding practices, such that mothers with better attentional, but not inhibitory, control scores did not show an effect of increased depression on feeding practices. These results provide preliminary evidence that acute increases in parental distress associated with "stay-at-home" orders affect feeding practices, specifically for mothers with lower levels of attentional control abilities.
父母的困扰与不健康的儿童喂养方式有关。在这项初步研究中，我们调查了在新冠疫情期间，学龄前儿童母亲样本中，从疫情前到疫情期间困扰程度的变化与喂养方式的类似变化之间的关联。此外，我们还研究了疫情前母亲自我调节的实验室测量指标如何调节这种关联。在一项正在进行的关于父母与儿童自我调节的研究中，共有36位母亲完成了调查，评估她们在2020年5月至6月与疫情相关的居家令期间的父母困扰（即母亲抑郁、育儿压力）和儿童喂养方式。这些母亲大约在两年前完成了相同的测量，同时还进行了抑制控制和注意力控制的实验室评估。疫情前注意力控制的实验室测量指标显著调节了母亲抑郁增加与采用控制型喂养方式之间的关联，即注意力控制得分较高（而非抑制控制得分较高）的母亲，抑郁增加对喂养方式没有影响。这些结果提供了初步证据，表明与“居家令”相关的父母困扰的急性增加会影响喂养方式，特别是对于注意力控制能力较低的母亲。
