Refeeding a child back to health from an eating disorder can be difficult for families despite having successfully fed their child prior to the illness. Parents and clinicians push to increase food intake, but the question remains ‘how much is enough for weight gain? This dilemma can result in resistance from the child, conflict, increased stress and lack of confidence for parents. Our ‘Restore...

BACKGROUND Road traffic injury is the leading cause of death among Canadian children and youth. Transport Canada recommends four types of child restraint depending on the size of the child, and recent studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of recommended restraint use. OBJECTIVES To determine community paediatricians' knowledge of Transport Canada recommendations for child restraint use ...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to evaluate the attitudes, feeding practices, and child overweight perceptions of family day-care providers caring for preschool-aged children and to examine whether child feeding practices differ based on child weight perceptions. METHOD One hundred twenty-three family day-care providers participated in this cross-sectional exploratory study and com...

BACKGROUND Parents typically do not recognise their child's weight status accurately according to clinical criteria, and thus may not take appropriate action if their child is overweight. We developed a novel visual intervention designed to improve parental perceptions of child weight status according to clinical criteria for children aged 4-5 and 10-11 years. The Map Me intervention comprises ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of mothers' and fathers' eating behaviors, child feeding practices, and BMI on percentage body fat and BMI in their children. RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES Four hundred fifty-eight parents (239 mothers, 219 fathers) were asked to complete two questionnaires: the Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire and the Child Feeding Questionnaire, which measure dimensio...

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