Providers’ response to child eating behaviors: A direct observation study

Providers' response to child eating behaviors: A direct observation study.

Child care providers play an important role in feeding young children, yet little is known about children's influence on providers' feeding practices. This qualitative study examines provider and child (18 months -4 years) feeding interactions. Trained data collectors observed 200 eating occasions in 48 family child care homes and recorded providers' responses to children's meal and snack time ...

Communicating about eating behaviors. A qualitative study of Chilean women and their health-care providers

Good communication between health care providers (HCPs) and patients is critical in achieving positive health outcomes. The purpose of this article was to compare the perceptions of Chilean woman and their HCPs with respect to determinants of eating behaviors. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with women (n=15) visiting a public health care center in Chile and with their HCPs (n=8) who ...

Eating or Feeding Our Young: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Does child temperament modify the overweight risk associated with parent feeding behaviors and child eating behaviors?: An exploratory study.

BACKGROUND Child temperament is a measure of an individual's behavioral tendencies. The primary objective of this study was to examine whether child temperament modified the overweight risk associated with parent feeding behaviors and child eating behaviors. METHODS A sample of predominantly African American, Midwest families (N = 120) recruited from four metropolitan primary care clinics par...

An Initial Evaluation of the Teacher– Child Interaction Direct Observation System: Measuring Teacher–Child Interaction Behaviors in Classroom Settings

Children who engage in chronic problem behavior can present challenges for their early childhood teachers, and are more likely to develop negative relationships with these and other adults with whom they interact. Unfortunately, children who develop negative relationships with their teachers early in their school careers are more likely to have later academic and behavioral problems than childr...