BACKGROUND Parental feeding practices are thought to play a causal role in shaping a child's fussiness; however, a child-responsive model suggests that feeding practices may develop in response to a child's emerging appetitive characteristics. We used a novel twin study design to test the hypothesis that mothers vary their feeding practices for twin children who differ in their 'food fussiness'...

Previous research suggests that fussy temperament in infancy predicts risk for later antisocial behavior (ASB) in childhood and adolescence. It remains unclear, however, to what extent infant fussiness is related to later ASB through causal processes or if they both reflect the same family risk factors for ASB. The current study used two approaches, the comparison of siblings and bivariate biom...

The present study investigated associations between children’s sensory reactivity and food fussiness to determine whether these remained after controlling for child temperament. Data regarding processing was obtained from 79 mother- dyads via observation (children were presented with stimuli) maternal-report. Mothers also completed questionnaires measuring temperament fussiness. Correlation ana...

Using a longitudinal, prospective adoption design, the authors of this study examined the effects of the environment (adoptive parents' depressive symptoms and responsiveness) and genetic liability of maternal depression (inferred by birth mothers' major depressive disorder [MDD]) on the development of fussiness in adopted children between 9 and 18 months old. The sample included 281 families l...

OBJECTIVE To establish diagnostic criteria for acute mountain sickness (AMS) in preverbal children. DESIGN Nonrandomized control trial. SETTING Ambulatory. PARTICIPANTS Children aged 3 through 36 months and adults from the Denver, Colo, area (altitude, 1610 m). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The Lake Louise Scoring System was modified, using a fussiness score as the headache equivalent and a ped...

Little is known about how fathers’ food parenting practices (FPP) are linked with children’s eating behaviors and whether these associations differ from mothers. This study examined between paternal maternal FPP among children aged 5–12 years. A sample of 565 parents (53% fathers) completed: 1) the item bank, which measured 11 constructs three domains (control, autonomy promotion, structure) 2)...

While numerous studies have investigated the efficacy of interventions at increasing children's vegetable consumption, little research has examined the effect of individual characteristics on intervention outcomes. In previous research, interventions consisting of modelling and rewards have been shown to increase children's vegetable intake, but differences were identified in terms of how much ...

BACKGROUND 'Food fussiness' (FF) is the tendency to be highly selective about which foods one is willing to eat, and emerges in early childhood; 'food neophobia' (FN) is a closely related characteristic but specifically refers to rejection of unfamiliar food. These behaviors are associated, but the extent to which their etiological architecture overlaps is unknown. The objective of this study w...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to develop a questionnaire for caregivers to assess the eating behavior of Chinese preschoolers. METHODS To assess children's eating behaviors, 152 items were derived from a broad review of the literature related to epidemiology surveys and the assessment of children's eating behaviors. All of these items were reviewed by 50 caregivers of preschooler...