Maternal characteristics influence infant feeding styles in Caribbean women.
Public Health Nutr
; 24(18): 6034-6045, 2021 12.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To examine associations between maternal characteristics and feeding styles in Caribbean mothers.DESIGN:
Participants were mother-child pairs enrolled in a cluster randomised trial of a parenting intervention in three Caribbean islands. Maternal characteristics were obtained by questionnaires when infants were 6-8 weeks old. Items adapted from the Toddler Feeding Behaviour Questionnaire were used to assess infant feeding styles at the age of 1 year. Feeding styles were identified using factor analysis and associations with maternal characteristics assessed using multilevel linear regression.SETTING:
Health clinics in St. Lucia (n 9), Antigua (n 10) and Jamaica (n 20).PARTICIPANTS:
A total of 405 mother-child pairs from the larger trial.RESULTS:
Maternal depressive symptoms were associated with uninvolved (ß = 0·38, 95 % CI (0·14, 0·62)), restrictive (ß = 0·44, 95 % CI (0·19, 0·69)) and forceful (ß = 0·31, 95 % CI (0·06, 0·57)) feeding and inversely associated with responsive feeding (ß = -0·30, 95 % CI (-0·56, -0·05)). Maternal vocabulary was inversely associated with uninvolved (ß = -0·31, 95 % CI (-0·57, -0·06)), restrictive (ß = -0·30, 95 % CI (-0·56, -0·04)), indulgent (ß = -0·47, 95 % CI (-0·73, -0·21)) and forceful (ß = -0·54, 95 % CI (-0·81, -0·28)) feeding. Indulgent feeding was negatively associated with socio-economic status (ß = -0·27, 95 % CI (-0·53, -0·00)) and was lower among mothers ≥35 years (ß = -0·32, 95 % CI (-0·62, -0·02)). Breast-feeding at 1 year was associated with forceful feeding (ß = 0·41, 95 % CI (0·21, 0·61)). No significant associations were found between maternal education, BMI, occupation and feeding styles.CONCLUSION:
Services to identify and assist mothers with depressive symptoms may benefit infant feeding style. Interventions to promote responsive feeding may be important for less educated, younger and socio-economically disadvantaged mothers.Palavras-chave
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Assunto principal:
Poder Familiar
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Mães
Tipo de estudo:
Clinical_trials
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Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Female
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Humans
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Infant
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Public Health Nutr
Assunto da revista:
CIENCIAS DA NUTRICAO
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SAUDE PUBLICA
Ano de publicação:
2021
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Jamaica